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Radio Imbibe is the audio home of Imbibe magazine. In each episode, we dive into liquid culture, exploring the people, places, and flavors of the drinkscape through conversations about cocktails, coffee, beer, spirits, and wine.

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Radio Imbibe episodes:

06.18.2024
Episode 101: The Great Daiquiri Discussion, with Joshua Ibañez, Shannon Mustipher, and Garret Richard
The Daiquiri is an undisputed champion of the cocktail world, and its simple formula not only offers the promise of a complex character, but it’s a great starting point for endless exploration. For this episode, we take a deep dive...
06.03.2024
Episode 100: The Uncle Nearest Raise the Bar Mentorship Alliance, with Lucia Creed, Kate Gerwin, and Tiffanie Barriere
The Uncle Nearest Raise the Bar Mentorship Alliance is a new platform that aims to match veteran bartenders with upcoming talent for the betterment of the bar community. In addition to Lucia Creed, head of trade advocacy for Uncle Nearest,...
05.21.2024
Episode 99: The Tequila Ambassador V.O., with Phil Bayly, Jesse Estes, and Mitch Wilson
With a career that started in the mid-1970s and that continued until his death in 2021, bar owner and Tequila Ocho co-founder Tomas Estes helped change the way we drink, and think about, tequila. The Tequila Ambassador V.O., a fully...
05.21.2024
Episode 99: The Tequila Ambassador V.O., with Phil Bayley, Jesse Estes, and Mitch Wright
Starting in the mid-1970s and continuing until his death in 2021, Tomas Estes was one of the most influential people in modern tequila. A fully revised version of his book, The Tequila Ambassador, was published this spring, and for this...
05.07.2024
Episode 98: Understanding Shochu, with Stephen Lyman and Christopher Pellegrini
Shochu is Japan’s signature spirit, yet it’s not well known outside the country. As our May/June 2024 cover feature reveals, that’s starting to change, with a wider array of excellent shochu increasingly appearing in American bars. For this episode, we...
04.23.2024
Episode 97: The Mint Julep, with Joe Stinchcomb
Pick some mint from the garden (or the farmers market) and grab a bottle of bourbon, because peak springtime is the perfect season for mixing up Mint Juleps. With Derby Day just around the corner, we talk Juleps with Joe...
04.09.2024
Episode 96: Romeo’s East Village, with Evan Hawkins
Romeo’s opened in New York City this past December, promising to bring a new kind of cocktail experience to the East Village. For this episode, we talk to owner Evan Hawkins about the kind of bar he wanted to open...
03.26.2024
Episode 95: The Enduring Beauty of Vermouth, with Alf del Portillo, Marta Premoli, and Francesco Lafranconi
Vermouth is an essential cocktail ingredient, and it can also be spectacular when served on its own. For this episode, we talk to several bartenders about the many reasons vermouth fascinates them and factors into their work: Alf del Portillo...
03.12.2024
Episode 94: Viva Vermouth, with Francois Monti
François Monti is a Madrid-based journalist, educator, and Imbibe contributing writer, and the author of books including El Gran Libro del Vermut. For this episode, he joins us to talk about all things vermouth (the focus of our March/April issue),...
02.27.2024
Episode 93: Victoria Eady Butler from Uncle Nearest
In 2021, we recognized Victoria Eady Butler as one of our Imbibe 75 People to Watch for her work as the master blender for Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey. For this episode, we catch up with her on her ongoing work...
02.13.2024
Episode 92: Agave and Beyond, with Chava Peribán and Nacho Jimenez
Tequila and mezcal are booming in American bars, and other Mexican spirits are making their way to the mainstream. For this episode, we explore this growing part of the drinks world with Salvador “Chava” Peribán, host of the Heritage Mezcal...
01.30.2024
Episode 91: Thad Vogler and the Single Village Fix
In the January/February 2024 issue, San Francisco bartender, bar owner, and author Thad Vogler shares his story of the Single Village Fix. Vogler first created this simple mix of mezcal, lime juice, and pineapple gum syrup for a bar menu...
01.16.2024
Episode 90: The 2024 Imbibe 75, with Robert Simonson and Baylee Hopings
We’re continuing our coverage of this year’s Imbibe 75 list of people and places who’ll change the way we drink in the year ahead. For this episode, we talk to two of 2024’s People to Watch: cocktail journalist (and Imbibe...
01.02.2024
Episode 89: Introducing the 2024 Imbibe 75 with Alex Jump
We’re kicking off 2024 by introducing you to some of this year’s Imbibe 75 list of people and places who’ll change the way we drink in the year ahead. For this episode, we talk to Denver bartender and beverage consultant...
12.12.2023
Episode 88: Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s Eggnog Essentials
No holiday season is complete without festive drinks, and among the seasonal standards is eggnog. Jeffrey Morgenthaler is an eggnog evangelist, serving his signature Tequila and Sherry Eggnog to guests at his bar, Pacific Standard, in Portland, Oregon. For this...
11.28.2023
Episode 87: Toby Cecchini and the Cosmopolitan
The Cosmopolitan is a modern classic cocktail that’s reached far into drinks culture. For this episode, Cosmo creator Toby Cecchini (owner of Brooklyn’s Long Island Bar) shares the story of the drink’s origins and its rapid takeover of cocktail culture,...
11.14.2023
Episode 86: Beer in San Francisco, with Dave McLean from Admiral Maltings
The San Francisco Bay Area has been at the heart of craft brewing for more than 50 years. For this episode, we track craft beer’s tumultuous trajectory with Dave McLean, co-founder of Admiral Maltings in Alameda and founder of Magnolia Brewing, San...
10.31.2023
Episode 85: Garrett Oliver and the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling
The Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling aims to provide scholarship support to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the brewing and distilling industries. For this episode, we check in with Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster and MJF chair, Garrett Oliver,...
10.17.2023
Episode 84: The Pinnacle Guide, with Hannah Sharman-Cox, Siobhan Payne, and Dan Dove
As co-founders of London Cocktail Week, Hannah Sharman-Cox, and Siobhan Payne are familiar with the growing complexity of the bar world. Early next year, Sharman-Cox and Payne (along with co-founder Dan Dove) will introduce The Pinnacle Guide, a bar evaluation...
10.03.2023
Episode 83: The Cocktail from the Black Lagoon, with Erin Hayes and Kelsey Ramage
Halloween is one of the most popular holidays around, and with this year’s Black Lagoon Cocktail Pop-up, bars everywhere are getting in on the celebrations. For this episode, we talk with Black Lagoon co-founders Kelsey Ramage and Erin Hayes about...
09.19.2023
Episode 82: Negroni Week 2023, with Lindsay Matteson
Negroni Week is taking place right now, from September 18-24, 2023. For this episode, we explore the wide world of Negroni variations with Lindsay Matteson. Currently the bar manager at the bitters-focused Barnacle and The Walrus and The Carpenter in...
09.05.2023
Episode 81: The N/A Cocktail Playbook, with Derek Brown
Drinkers are increasingly looking for great-tasting cocktails that reduce or avoid the use of alcohol, and bartenders are stepping up to the challenge. Our September/October issue delves into the details of making great NA cocktails, and for this episode, we’re...
08.01.2023
Episode 80: Mastering the Mojito with Julio Cabrera
The Mojito is one of the key cocktails to originate in Cuba, and it’s gone on to become a worldwide standard. For this episode, we take a deep dive into the Mojito—its composition, methodology, and history—with Julio Cabrera, a Cuban-born...
07.18.2023
Episode 79: Tales of the Cocktail 2023
Tales of the Cocktail has shaped the cocktail world in myriad ways over the more than 20 years its been taking place in New Orleans. With the 2023 event about to kick off on July 23, we check in to...
07.03.2023
Episode 78: The Mai Tai Forever, with Jeff “Beachbum” Berry
Perhaps no 20th-century cocktail has resonated as strongly (or been misinterpreted as widely) as the Mai Tai. This episode considers the Mai Tai from every angle, with drinks historian, author, and bar owner Jeff “Beachbum” Berry (Latitude 29, New Orleans)...
06.20.2023
Episode 77: The Chartreuse Swizzle with Marco Dionysos
Marco Dionysos helped San Francisco become one of the most influential cities of the contemporary cocktail renaissance, and his Chartreuse Swizzle has become a modern cocktail classic. For this episode, we explore the drink’s origins and how it grew to...
06.06.2023
Episode 76: Talking Tonic with Nick Kokonas
Nick Kokonas is a Chicago-based bartender and writer. The author of the award-winning book Something & Tonic, he also contributed a feature on tonic water for our May/June issue. In this episode, we talk with Kokonas about the deep global...
05.23.2023
Episode 75: The Updated “Complete Beer Course,” with Joshua M. Bernstein
Joshua M. Bernstein has been a contributor and contributing editor to Imbibe since 2006. For this episode, we talk with Josh about the completely revised and updated edition of his best-selling book, The Complete Beer Guide (first published in 2013),...
05.09.2023
Episode 74: Daijoubu Popup, with Caer Maiko and Sharon Yeung
Bartenders Caer Maiko (DrinkWell, Austin) and Sharon Yeung (The Walrus and the Carpenter, Seattle) organized their first Daijoubu pop-up bar event four years ago, and found ways to keep the self-described “super-Asian cocktail pop-up” going through the pandemic, with events...
04.25.2023
Episode 73: Rethinking Tropical Drinks, with Garret Richard and Ben Schaffer
Tropical drinks have a timeless quality, but that doesn’t mean the recipes and techniques for making them need to be stuck in the past. Brooklyn bartender Garret Richard (Sunken Harbor Club) and author Ben Schaffer (The Rum Reader) bring today’s...
04.11.2023
Episode 72: All About Ice with Camper English
Camper English has been experimenting with ways to make the perfect ice for cocktails since 2009 and documenting his findings on his blog, Alcademics. With his new book, The Ice Book: Cool Cubes, Clear Spheres, and Other Chill Cocktail Crafts,...
03.28.2023
Episode 71: The Manhattan Project, with Toby Maloney
Few cocktails have demonstrated such historical staying power as the Manhattan. For this episode, we consider this classic cocktail from all angles with Toby Maloney, who’s mixed Manhattans at influential bars ranging from Milk & Honey and Pegu Club in...
03.14.2023
Episode 70: Distilling Rye Whiskey, with Nicole Austin, Todd Leopold, and Greg Metze
Over the past 20 years, rye whiskey has moved from being an also-ran to taking the spotlight, with bartenders and distillers nationwide rediscovering its promise. Our March/April 2023 issue dives deep into today’s world of rye, and for this episode,...
02.28.2023
Episode 69: BarSmarts, with Kevin Denton Rex
Thousands of hospitality professionals have honed their bartending skills over the past 15 years via the BarSmarts bartender education program. For this episode, we talk with Kevin Denton Rex, the director of mixology and education for Pernod Ricard, about the...
02.14.2023
Episode 68: Julio Gutierrez, Chuntikis
We wrap up our Imbibe 75 coverage for 2023 by checking in with Julio “Jules” Gutierrez, the founder of the bar pop-up series Chuntikis. Designed to help tell the stories of Latinos and immigrants through the medium of tropical drinks,...
01.31.2023
Episode 67: Christine Wiseman of BarLab
We continue our Imbibe 75 coverage by catching up with Christine Wiseman, one of our People to Watch for 2023. A longtime bartender in LA, most recently at Broken Shaker, Wiseman moved to Miami in 2021 to step into the...
01.17.2023
Episode 66: Jack Beguedou, Hood Sommelier
We continue our Imbibe 75 coverage with a conversation with Jack Beguedou, one of our 2023 People to Watch. Originally from Togo, Jack Beguedou now lives in Omaha, and is known on Instagram and YouTube as the Hood Sommelier, sharing...
01.03.2023
Episode 65: Celebrating the 2023 Imbibe 75 with Josh Ibañez, Rumba
We kick off our Imbibe 75 coverage for 2023 with a conversation with Seattle bartender Josh Ibañez. A veteran of Houston’s cocktail scene, Ibañez moved to Seattle several years ago and recently assumed the role of bar manager at Rumba,...
12.20.2022
Episode 64: Remembering Brother Cleve
Brother Cleve was a musician, DJ, bartender, and bar owner who helped shape the direction of the modern cocktail renaissance, while bringing up a generation of Boston bartenders and bar owners, earning the title “the Godfather of Boston’s Cocktail Scene.”...
12.06.2022
Episode 63: Flaming Drinks for the Holidays, with St. John Frizell
In 2017, St. John Frizell, owner of Fort Defiance and co-owner of Gage & Tollner in Brooklyn, wrote an essay for Imbibe about the enduring appeal of fire rituals in winter. For this episode, Frizell returns to the topic to...
11.22.2022
Episode 62: Chockie Tom
In 2021, Chockie Tom was featured as part of the Imbibe 75 for her work with Doom Tiki (now Doommersive), and her advocacy for indigenous communities in hospitality. For this episode, we honor Native American Heritage Month by catching up...
11.08.2022
Episode 61: Celebrating Imbibe’s 100th issue with Wayne Curtis
We’re reflecting on 100 issues of Imbibe with Wayne Curtis. One of our longtime contributing editors, Wayne has been a regular columnist for Imbibe since issue 48, in 2014, and his column has won awards from Tales of the Cocktail...
10.25.2022
Episode 60: Alyssa Smith and Cha McCoy, Charleston Wine + Food Festival
The Charleston Wine + Food Festival is one of the country’s great food events and a mainstay of Charleston’s culinary community. For this episode, the event’s interim executive director Alyssa Smith and beverage director Cha McCoy give a preview of...
10.11.2022
Episode 59: Lauren Mote
Lauren Mote is a career bartender and entrepreneur now living in Amsterdam. The recipient of this year’s Spirited Award for Best Bar Mentor, Mote joins the podcast to talk about her new book, A Bartender’s Guide to the World: Cocktails...
09.27.2022
Episode 58: Margie Lehrman, American Craft Spirits Association
In our September/October 2022 issue, Susannah Skiver Barton explores the ongoing evolution of the craft distilling boom in America, and for this episode, we talk about the history and future of craft spirits with Margie Lehrman, CEO of the American...
09.13.2022
Episode 57: Negroni Essentials with Francesco Lafranconi
It’s Negroni Week! This week, thousands of bars worldwide are celebrating the Negroni and raising funds for this year’s giving partner, Slow Food. For this episode, we delve into the Negroni formula with one of the cocktail’s true experts, Francesco...
08.30.2022
Episode 56: Harry Chin’s POG Cutter
For our September/October 2022 issue, Jennifer Fiedler digs into the story of POG, the iconic blend of fruit juices that was part of her childhood growing up in Hawaii. Honolulu bartender Harry Chin of Fête Restaurant was featured in the...
08.16.2022
Episode 55: Nick Bodkins of Boisson on Mindful Drinking
In 2021, Boisson entered the New York City retail market with a bold idea: to provide customers with alcohol-free wines, beers, and spirits in an engaging, judgement-free environment. For this episode, we catch up with Nick Bodkins, a co-owner and...
08.02.2022
Episode 54: A Visit to New Orleans with Touré Folkes & Kimberly Patton-Bragg
In July, Tales of the Cocktail returned to New Orleans as an in-person event for its 20th anniversary, and for this episode, we catch up with two of this year’s Imbibe 75 People to Watch, both of whom live and...
07.19.2022
Episode 53: Clay Risen
In our July/August 2022 issue, Robert Simonson introduces readers to New York Times reporter and whiskey writer Clay Risen. For this episode, we talk with Clay about the rapidly changing world of American whiskey and the whiskey evolutions he’s finding...

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Radio Imbibe episodes:

Episode 101: The Great Daiquiri Discussion, with Joshua Ibañez, Shannon Mustipher, and Garret Richard

Episode 100: The Uncle Nearest Raise the Bar Mentorship Alliance, with Lucia Creed, Kate Gerwin, and Tiffanie Barriere

Episode 99: The Tequila Ambassador V.O., with Phil Bayly, Jesse Estes, and Mitch Wilson

Episode 99: The Tequila Ambassador V.O., with Phil Bayley, Jesse Estes, and Mitch Wright

Episode 98: Understanding Shochu, with Stephen Lyman and Christopher Pellegrini

Episode 97: The Mint Julep, with Joe Stinchcomb

Episode 96: Romeo’s East Village, with Evan Hawkins

Episode 95: The Enduring Beauty of Vermouth, with Alf del Portillo, Marta Premoli, and Francesco Lafranconi

Episode 94: Viva Vermouth, with Francois Monti

Episode 93: Victoria Eady Butler from Uncle Nearest

Episode 92: Agave and Beyond, with Chava Peribán and Nacho Jimenez

Episode 91: Thad Vogler and the Single Village Fix

Episode 90: The 2024 Imbibe 75, with Robert Simonson and Baylee Hopings

Episode 89: Introducing the 2024 Imbibe 75 with Alex Jump

Episode 88: Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s Eggnog Essentials

Episode 87: Toby Cecchini and the Cosmopolitan

Episode 86: Beer in San Francisco, with Dave McLean from Admiral Maltings

Episode 85: Garrett Oliver and the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling

Episode 84: The Pinnacle Guide, with Hannah Sharman-Cox, Siobhan Payne, and Dan Dove

Episode 83: The Cocktail from the Black Lagoon, with Erin Hayes and Kelsey Ramage

Episode 82: Negroni Week 2023, with Lindsay Matteson

Episode 81: The N/A Cocktail Playbook, with Derek Brown

Episode 80: Mastering the Mojito with Julio Cabrera

Episode 79: Tales of the Cocktail 2023

Episode 78: The Mai Tai Forever, with Jeff “Beachbum” Berry

Episode 77: The Chartreuse Swizzle with Marco Dionysos

Episode 76: Talking Tonic with Nick Kokonas

Episode 75: The Updated “Complete Beer Course,” with Joshua M. Bernstein

Episode 74: Daijoubu Popup, with Caer Maiko and Sharon Yeung

Episode 73: Rethinking Tropical Drinks, with Garret Richard and Ben Schaffer

Episode 72: All About Ice with Camper English

Episode 71: The Manhattan Project, with Toby Maloney

Episode 70: Distilling Rye Whiskey, with Nicole Austin, Todd Leopold, and Greg Metze

Episode 69: BarSmarts, with Kevin Denton Rex

Episode 68: Julio Gutierrez, Chuntikis

Episode 67: Christine Wiseman of BarLab

Episode 66: Jack Beguedou, Hood Sommelier

Episode 65: Celebrating the 2023 Imbibe 75 with Josh Ibañez, Rumba

Episode 64: Remembering Brother Cleve

Episode 63: Flaming Drinks for the Holidays, with St. John Frizell

Episode 62: Chockie Tom

Episode 61: Celebrating Imbibe’s 100th issue with Wayne Curtis

Episode 60: Alyssa Smith and Cha McCoy, Charleston Wine + Food Festival

Episode 59: Lauren Mote

Episode 58: Margie Lehrman, American Craft Spirits Association

Episode 57: Negroni Essentials with Francesco Lafranconi

Episode 56: Harry Chin’s POG Cutter

Episode 55: Nick Bodkins of Boisson on Mindful Drinking

Episode 54: A Visit to New Orleans with Touré Folkes & Kimberly Patton-Bragg

Episode 53: Clay Risen

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