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The Tate Modern’s much anticipated Damien Hirst exhibition will be running between April and September this year, and to pay homage to the Bristol born artist’s roots, the gallery will be serving a specially curated British drinks list.

Luckily the Tate’s bar manager and drinks buyer Alex Stevenson isn’t taking the theme too literally, so there won’t be any deftly shaken shots of formaldehyde making their way into classic cocktails.

Instead, expect to see spirits and liqueurs from English producers such as Bramley & Gage, Chase, Sipsmith, The Somerset Cider Brandy Company and Compass Box expertly crafted into drinks that will change as the British summertime comes and goes.

Calling all ladies who love flavour, have you entered Jane Peyton’s competition for aspiring brewsters? There’s less than a week to go – closing date is end of January – so don’t miss your chance to win a day brewing with founder of Brewsters brewery, Sara Barton.

Even before she was front page news on the Huffington Post, Jane, founder of the School of Booze events company, reported there were “some really fab entries”. Her favourites so far have involved “adding Earl Grey tea; blood orange & cloves; and sloe & juniper. Very inventive!“

That’s what I love about British drinks. Even when you’re being healthy, there’s so much variety out there.

In our latest Drinks of the Month we have all tastes covered, from Britain’s freshly crowned Champion Winter Ale, Alfie’s Revenge from Cornwall, through to a tangy, toothsome apple juice from the National Trust’s Killerton Estate near Exeter and Belvoir’s ethereal Elderflower Cordial.

In a reflection both of the momentous year ahead and the desire of restaurants and bars to stock good local wines, English and Welsh still wines are to have their own category in this year's Sommelier Wine Awards. Run by Imbibe magazine, the Sommelier Wine Awards are the UK’s premier wine competition for restaurants, bars and pubs.

Success doesn’t come easy, with wines being tasted blind by leading sommeliers hailing from taste and flavour hotspots such as The River Café, Hakkasan, Gauthier Soho and Hotel du Vin. Luminaries from wine haunts Ransome’s Dock and The Harrow at Little Bedwyn, also take part as does former UK Sommelier of the Year, Laura Rhys MS.