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Pour yourself a drink and join us for a while. ​We've been around since Halloween night 1995 as Shaken not Stirred®: A Celebration of the Martini (aka: Martiniplace.com) and show no sign of leaving (even though we have become Mixellany.com). 


One thing remains the same. We are dedicated to presenting thoughts about all things related to the history of cocktails and spirits, bartenders and bartending:  plus a few anecdotes and recipes. Most of all there's healthy dose of reminding you that quality over quantity counts in the true appreciation of the spirits and mixed drinks.

(Also being of legal drinking age in your particular country of residence when you enter this site will make all of us feel a whole lot better.)

WE TRACED THE FIRST USE OF THE WORD "COCKTAIL" TO 1798 ON LONDON'S DOWNING STREET. WE KNOW WHERE THE SAVOY'S HARRY CRADDOCK IS BURIED. WE DISCOVERED HARRY JOHNSON'S TRUE BIRTHPLACE AND GRAVESITE PLUS KNOW HOW THE BLOODY MARY AND THE RED SNAPPER GOT THEIR NAMES.

We are Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller—the directors of Mixellany Limited®—a consultancy and publishing company that specialises in anything and everything to do with spirits and mixed drinks. Since 1995, we have written more than 36 books including most recently, A Most Noble Water: Revisiting the Origins of English Gin (2024).


PUBLISHING
Mixellany's publishing division was responsible for the Mixologist series of cocktail journals, the republishing of the rare classics The Café Royal Cocktail Book and El Arte de Hacer un Cocktail y Algo Mas, and titles by other noted authors including Gary Regan and Shawn Soole. They also contributed over a dozen entries to the 2021 volume The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails.

WRITING
Miller and Brown are regular contributors to Imbibe, CLASS, The Cocktail Lovers, BA's Highlife, and The Observer Food Monthly, and Financial Times in the UK. They have written extensively for other publications including Barlife (Czech republic), Wine Spectator, Cigar Aficionado, Gotham, Hamptons, Los Angeles Confidential, Boston Common, Capitol File, and FoodArts in the USA as well as THEME and World's Best Bars in the UK.

EDUCATING
Miller and Brown frequently conduct masterclasses in applying historical foundations to new drink creation and have made regular appearances at Berlin Bar Convent, Moscow Bar Show, London Cocktail Week, Boutique Bar Show, Rumfest, Tales of the Cocktail, Athens Bar Show, Florence Cocktail Week, Rome Bar Show as well as other trade and consumer events. They developed education programmes for Bacardi and Dewars during the early 2000s. 
Then they developed and delivered the education and competition programmes for the Havana Club Grand Prix between 2012 and 2019, not including rum education seminars through the UK and Europe on Caribbean rums. Miller and Brown were also part of the English Gin Road Show which launched the revival of the English Gin category in the USA, UK, and Europe between 2008 and 2010.

DISTILLING
These two former bartenders also practice what they preach. Brown is the co-founder and Master Distiller for the multi-award winning Sipsmith Distillery , the first newly-licensed, pot-still distillery to open in London in over 180 years, which won the prestigious 2010 Observer Food Monthly Best Newcomer Award and a 2011 Gold Medal from the International Wine & Spirits Competition.

Miller contributed to the development of Havana Club Union—the first super-premium rum designed to be savoured with Cuban cigars—and developed along with Nick Blacknell—Pacto Navio, ​a rum targeted  for the French market, combining the French heritage in Cuban rum development by ageing Cuban rum in French sauterne casks.

Together Brown and Miller have amassed a collection of international awards for their work as distillery consultants creating new spirits, including a 2002 international "Best Spirit" in the white spirits category from the Beverage Testing Institute for Heavy Water Vodka. They have worked as tasters and consultants for a number of products including Beefeater 24, No. 3 Gin, and Penny Blue Rum.

....AND MORE
Miller and Brown were co-founders of the Museum of the American Cocktailwith Dale and Jill DeGroff. They were the curators of a three-year project in the south of France, restoring Exposition Universelle des Vins et Spiritueux, a museum of wines and spirits founded in 1958, and cataloguing the 8000+ bottles, 1200 menus, and other antiquities in the collection.

They are currently curating a free, online, digital library of vintage cocktail, drink, and distillation books dating back to the 1750s at www.euvslibrary.com.

Brown was honoured with the Gin Grand Guardian designation in 2018 and Miller received the same distinction in 2025 from the Japan Gin Association.


They both liverymen in The Worshipful Company of Distillers of London and memebrs of the Gin Guild.


  • 2022 CLASS Magazine Outstanding Contribution Award 
  • 2021 Helen David Lifetime Achievement Award from Tales of the Cocktail
  • BOTH SELECTED for Drinks International Bar World 100 for 2020
  • 2016 IMBIBE Personality of the Year Award: Industry Legends
  • 2011 IWSC Communicator of the Year Award
  • 2010 CLASS Awards for Best Drinks Writing
  • 2010 Best Drink History in the UK, Gourmand World Cookbook Award
  • 2009 Best Drink History in the UK, Gourmand World Cookbook Award