Daniel Warrilow is the National Accounts Manager for Chareau aloe liqueur. Kiowa Bryan is the US Director of On Trade & Marketing for Spiribam.

* Places mentioned: Normandie Club, The Eveleigh, Black Swan, Houston’s

* Brands: Olmeca Altos, Rhum J.M., Speed Rack, Ti' Punch, Spiribam, Art Beyond the Glass

* People mentioned: Gabe Sanchez, Ben Jones

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Zan Kong is the commercial manager for Worthy Park Estate, a producer of Jamaican rums.

Emma Janzen is a journalist and author. She received a James Beard Award this year for helping co-author The Bartender’s Manifesto with Toby Maloney and a Spirited Award as Tales of the Cocktail for the same book and her article “The Great Mezcal Heist”. She also chatted with me in 2022 on the Decoding Cocktails podcast.

Other mentions: Dale DeGroff, Ian Burrell, Niles, Michigan

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Ben Jones is the Managing Director of Spiribam, which oversees brands like Rhum Clément, Rhum J.M., Chairman’s Reserve, Joseph Cartron, and, more.

Wyatt Peabody is a journalist and advisor to spirits companies. He was involved early on with Del Maguey in the promotion of mezcal.

Eva’s Caribbean Kitchen, Las Perlas, LA Times piece, St. Lucia distillers

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Nick Viane is the Southern California market manager for Spiribam. Audrey Bruisson is the company’s global marketing manager.

The term “Décollage” that Nick brought up is new to me. Translated, to English, it means takeoff. In Martinique, it signifies getting your day started with a Ti' Punch.

I’ve heard many people say that visiting Rhum J.M. always warrants playing the Jurrasic Park theme song.

Brands: Rhum Clément, Rhum J.M., Hardy Cognac, Marigot Bay, Joseph Cartron

People: Kiowa Bryan, Ben Jones

Miscellaneous: Ti' Punch week, Sofi Tukker, Ludacris

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Nicola Olianas is the global brand ambassador for Fratelli Branca, which owns brands like Fernet Branca, Carpano Antica, Punt e Mes, and Templeton Rye.

Chris LeBeau is the founder of Decoding Cocktails, which he created in 2019 to teach his friends how to make drinks and ended up becoming his full-time work by 2021.

Chris and Nicola previously chatted on his other podcast. You can listen to that conversation here.

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Carlos Kennedy-Lopez will be the head bartender of the soon-to-open bar Lolita in midtown Manhattan. Carlos currently works at another program run by the same group, Valerie.

Olivia Stewart is the President of Oxbow Rum, which sources its sugarcane from fields that Olivia’s farm has had since 1859.

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* Brands and drinks: Rhum J.M., Paranubes, Dakabend, El Dorado, Ti' Punch, Spiribam, CureCo, Rhum Clément

* Miscellaneous: alluvial soil, Audubon Park in New Orleans, piloncillo/panela, tafia, Olivia was trying to recall the name Norbert Rillieux, Tequila Matchmaker, AOC, additives, fair vs. direct trade

Side note: I love this video that Olivia and her team put together

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Marshall Minaya is the beverage director of Valerie, Madame George, and the soon-to-open Lolita. He has worked in the industry since age 13, starting as a dishwasher.

Ryan Maybee founded the speakeasy-style bar Manifesto in Kansas City in 2009, catalyzing the city’s cocktail scene. By accident, he discovered that the building he was operating in used to be home to a whiskey distillery. He resurrected the brand, J. Rieger & Co. in 2014. Listen to my previous conversation with Ryan about “Kansas City Whiskey” and founding J. Rieger & Co.

Bars: Bar Tonique, The NoMad Bar, Flat Iron Lounge, Milk & Honey, Attaboy, PDT, Leyenda, Clover Club, Milady’s, Ace Hotel, Breslin, John Dory Oyster Bar

Brands/drinks: Frisco, Benedictine

People: Sasha Petraske, Dale DeGroff, Julie Reiner, Jim Meehan, Doug Frost, Ivy Mix, Izzy, Leo Robitschek, David Wondrich, April Broomfield, Tom Richter, Sother Teague

Organizations: Tales of the Cocktail, Bar 5 Day, Speed rack

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Amanda Gunderson is the CEO and co-founder of Another Round Another Rally. A nonprofit financial and educational resource for the hospitality industry providing reimbursement grants and immersive educational scholarships to further the education of historically excluded voices. It also supplies emergency assistance to those who have fallen into unexpected hardship.

Noteworthy: When they opened relief applications early in the pandemic, they received 79,000 applications in a week, handled by 300 volunteers. They awarded 3 million dollars in three months.

Kiowa Bryan is the marketing director of Spiribam, which distributes Caribbean rums from Martinique and Saint Lucia, as well as Joseph Cartron from Burgundy, France.

References

Bars: Good Luck Bar, The Eveleigh, Westside Tavern, Harvard & Stone, Lost Lake, Bully’s Sports Bar, Scopa

People: Travis Tober, Alex Jump, Lauren (Paylor) O’Brien, Zach Patterson, Ben Jones, Julian Cox, Dave Kupchinski, Audrey Saunders, Daniel Warrilow

Organizations: Speed-Rack, Pre-Shift Society, Focus on Health

Brands: Louis XIII, Fortaleza, Black Haus, Beam Suntory

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