The Speakeasy

By Heritage Radio Network

Hosts Damon Boelte, Sother Teague, and Greg Benson sit down to talk cocktails, spirits, wine, beer, tea, coffee, and all the other exciting liquids in the universe. With each episode, learn from some ... more

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How many episodes does The Speakeasy have?

The podcast currently has 631 episodes available.

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August 01, 2025 Mezcocktail Mezcollege
Are we loving mezcal to death? That’s just one of the questions Tim McKirdy set out to answer when he began working on a mezcal docuseries for his ongoing podcast Cocktail College. Airing now after two years in the making, Tim sits down with Greg and Sother to discuss his trip to Oaxaca, what he learned about agave farming and distilling, a possible espadin conspiracy, and the challenges of converting such an in-depth story into a three-part podcast.

Plus, Tales of the Cocktail 2025 is in the history books! Greg and Sother talk highs, lows, regrets, and where Greg wound up crashing the whole time he was there.

Follow Steve at @mightyschneidy
Follow Sip & Guzzle at @sipandguzzlenyc

LINKS
Listener Survey
Cocktail College’s Mezcal Series
Greg’s Brewery Article for Vinepair
Tim’s email to RSVP for Vinepair After Hours: [email protected]

For resources on dealing with ICE agents in your community visit nouswithoutyou.la/ and @thenycalliance

The Speakeasy is now on YouTube! Tune in to “see” what we’re talking about at youtube.com/@Speakeasy.Podcast

Love The Speakeasy but wish there was more? Check out Bottled in Bond, our new Patreon podcast exclusively for you, our best regulars! Join now for sponsor-free listening, drink recipes from all our guests, and free kits every month from our friends at Shaker & Spoon. Higher proof and aged to perfection, check it out now at patreon.com/BottledinBond

Check out Quiote Imports at quioteimports.com and use promo code “Speakeasy” to get free shipping at checkout.

Don’t forget to click SUBSCRIBE and RATE the show if you can.
🔥🔥Join us each week as industry leaders, Damon Boelte and Sother Teague, sit down with a wide range of hospitality and spirits experts from around the world to discuss everything that impacts our business.
FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM:
Damon Boelte @DamonBoelte
Sother Teague @CreativeDrunk
Greg Benson @100ProofGreg
Speakeasy Podcast @SpeakeasyPodcast
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER:
Sother Teague @CreativeDrunk
SpeakeasyRadio @SpeakeasyRadio

Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support The Speakeasy by becoming a member!
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July 31, 2025 Boomerang! with Amir Babayoff
In our final Boomerang! from Tales of the Cocktail Greg and Phil sit down with Amir Babayoff, beverage director at Ophelia in NYC. The conversation takes a number of twists and turns around well-crafted martinis about the creative process, the chaos that is New Orleans in July and how this whole crossover series with the Philip Duff show might just come back next year.
LINKS
Listener Survey
For resources on dealing with ICE agents in your community visit nouswithoutyou.la/ and @thenycalliance
The Speakeasy is now on YouTube! Tune in to “see” what we’re talking about at youtube.com/@Speakeasy.Podcast
Love The Speakeasy but wish there was more? Check out Bottled in Bond, our new Patreon podcast exclusively for you, our best regulars! Join now for sponsor-free listening, drink recipes from all our guests, and free kits every month from our friends at Shaker & Spoon. Higher proof and aged to perfection, check it out now at patreon.com/BottledinBond
Check out Quiote Imports at quioteimports.com and use promo code “Speakeasy” to get free shipping at checkout.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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36min
July 30, 2025 Boomerang! with Sahil Bari of Australian Bitters Co.
Live from Tales of the Cocktail 2025 Greg and Phil sit down with Sahil Bari of Australian Bitters Co. Together they discuss the creation of a bitters company, how their ingredients are different and what it's like to build a company around botanicals from a specific - and specifically weird - continent.
LINKS
Listener Survey
For resources on dealing with ICE agents in your community visit nouswithoutyou.la/ and @thenycalliance
The Speakeasy is now on YouTube! Tune in to “see” what we’re talking about at youtube.com/@Speakeasy.Podcast
Love The Speakeasy but wish there was more? Check out Bottled in Bond, our new Patreon podcast exclusively for you, our best regulars! Join now for sponsor-free listening, drink recipes from all our guests, and free kits every month from our friends at Shaker & Spoon. Higher proof and aged to perfection, check it out now at patreon.com/BottledinBond
Check out Quiote Imports at quioteimports.com and use promo code “Speakeasy” to get free shipping at checkout.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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18min
July 24, 2025 Boomerang! with the Authors of The Rum Never Sets
In a second live poolcast from Tales of the Cocktail Greg and Phil return to talk to Alexandre Gabriel and Matt Pietrek about their new book "The Rum Never Sets - 300 Years of Royal Navy & London Dock Rum," and the rum spinoff it inspired. They discuss common misconceptions about navy strength rum, how the British navy came to be rum's biggest consumer, and what a former programmer is doing researching rum in the first place. Pour yourself a nice big glass of rum and jump in the pool for this one!

LINKS
Listener Survey
For resources on dealing with ICE agents in your community visit nouswithoutyou.la/ and @thenycalliance
The Speakeasy is now on YouTube! Tune in to “see” what we’re talking about at youtube.com/@Speakeasy.Podcast
Love The Speakeasy but wish there was more? Check out Bottled in Bond, our new Patreon podcast exclusively for you, our best regulars! Join now for sponsor-free listening, drink recipes from all our guests, and free kits every month from our friends at Shaker & Spoon. Higher proof and aged to perfection, check it out now at patreon.com/BottledinBond
Check out Quiote Imports at quioteimports.com and use promo code “Speakeasy” to get free shipping at checkout.
Get your hands on some Buddha’s Hand Bitters at kingfloyds.com
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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53min
July 23, 2025 Boomerang! with Procera Gin
In a special live poolcast from Tales of the Cocktail 2025 Greg Benson and Phil Duff of the Philip Duff show take a dip with Guy Brennan and Alan Murungi of Procera Gin. They chat poolside with martinis in hand about Procera's single tree gin, the history of African spirits, and of course the rest of the debauchery they're getting up to at Tales.

For resources on dealing with ICE agents in your community visit nouswithoutyou.la/ and @thenycalliance

The Speakeasy is now on YouTube! Tune in to “see” what we’re talking about at youtube.com/@Speakeasy.Podcast

Love The Speakeasy but wish there was more? Check out Bottled in Bond, our new Patreon podcast exclusively for you, our best regulars! Join now for sponsor-free listening, drink recipes from all our guests, and free kits every month from our friends at Shaker & Spoon. Higher proof and aged to perfection, check it out now at patreon.com/BottledinBond

Check out Quiote Imports at quioteimports.com and use promo code “Speakeasy” to get free shipping at checkout.

Get your hands on some Buddha’s Hand Bitters at kingfloyds.com
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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30min
July 18, 2025 To Sip or To Guzzle?
The high/low, upstairs/downstairs, elevated dive concept has been in the news and on peoples’ minds for a while now, but you know who’s really taking it to the next level? Steve Schneider, one of the co-founders of acclaimed NYC watering hole Sip & Guzzle. Steve sits down with the band to discuss how his partnership with Shingo Gokan crafted their bar’s dual identity, their long history as foils in the bar community, and how he’d like to see this kind of concept described.

Plus, is there such a thing as a cocktail that’s impossible to screw up? Greg thinks he may have found one, and it’s probably not the one you think (cough cough, pisco sour)

Follow Steve at @mightyschneidy
Follow Sip & Guzzle at @sipandguzzlenyc

LINKS
Listener Survey

For resources on dealing with ICE agents in your community visit nouswithoutyou.la/ and @thenycalliance

The Speakeasy is now on YouTube! Tune in to “see” what we’re talking about at youtube.com/@Speakeasy.Podcast

Love The Speakeasy but wish there was more? Check out Bottled in Bond, our new Patreon podcast exclusively for you, our best regulars! Join now for sponsor-free listening, drink recipes from all our guests, and free kits every month from our friends at Shaker & Spoon. Higher proof and aged to perfection, check it out now at patreon.com/BottledinBond

Check out Quiote Imports at quioteimports.com and use promo code “Speakeasy” to get free shipping at checkout.

Get your hands on some Buddha’s Hand Bitters at kingfloyds.com
Don’t forget to click SUBSCRIBE and RATE the show if you can.
🔥🔥Join us each week as industry leaders, Damon Boelte and Sother Teague, sit down with a wide range of hospitality and spirits experts from around the world to discuss everything that impacts our business.
FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM:
Damon Boelte @DamonBoelte
Sother Teague @CreativeDrunk
Greg Benson @100ProofGreg
Speakeasy Podcast @SpeakeasyPodcast
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER:
Sother Teague @CreativeDrunk
SpeakeasyRadio @SpeakeasyRadio

Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support The Speakeasy by becoming a member!
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
...more
1h 10min
July 11, 2025 In the Weeds
THC drinks have come a long way - they don’t taste like someone put a joint out in a beer anymore! Darnell Smith, consultant and entrepreneur, saw these market trends coming together when he founded MXXN, a non-alcoholic thc-infused spirits brand. Darnell sits down with Greg and Damon to talk about the challenges of operating within the patchwork system of US regulation, MXXN’s distinct branding, and how they got the distinctive flavors and effects of weed to mesh with gin, tequila, whiskey and rum. Darnell also gets into equity in the modern marijuana business. Promises were made, but were they kept?

Plus, Damon and Greg both made it through the Fourth of July with all their fingers. Tune in to hear the antics they got up to in, among other places, Colonial Williamsburg.

Follow MXXN at @enjoymxxn

LINKS
Listener Survey

For resources on dealing with ICE agents in your community visit nouswithoutyou.la/ and @thenycalliance

The Speakeasy is now on YouTube! Tune in to “see” what we’re talking about at youtube.com/@Speakeasy.Podcast

Love The Speakeasy but wish there was more? Check out Bottled in Bond, our new Patreon podcast exclusively for you, our best regulars! Join now for sponsor-free listening, drink recipes from all our guests, and free kits every month from our friends at Shaker & Spoon. Higher proof and aged to perfection, check it out now at patreon.com/BottledinBond

Check out Quiote Imports at quioteimports.com and use promo code “Speakeasy” to get free shipping at checkout.

Get your hands on some Buddha’s Hand Bitters at kingfloyds.com

Don’t forget to click SUBSCRIBE and RATE the show if you can.
🔥🔥Join us each week as industry leaders, Damon Boelte and Sother Teague, sit down with a wide range of hospitality and spirits experts from around the world to discuss everything that impacts our business.
FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM:
Damon Boelte @DamonBoelte
Sother Teague @CreativeDrunk
Greg Benson @100ProofGreg
Speakeasy Podcast @SpeakeasyPodcast
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER:
Sother Teague @CreativeDrunk
SpeakeasyRadio @SpeakeasyRadio

Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support The Speakeasy by becoming a member!

The Speakeasy is Powered by Simplecast.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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1h 5min
July 09, 2025 Boomerang! with Lalo of Lalo Tequila
Live from BCB Brooklyn and Industry City Greg and Damon catch up with Lalo González of Lalo Tequila. They stop by Lalo’s booth to discuss the booming market for blanco tequila, where the future of agave spirits is headed, and how they hit on the very distinctive bottle and label design that’s become the cornerstone of the brand. It’s a Boomerang! episode live from our own back yard
Follow Lalo Tequila at @lalospirits

LINKS
Listener Survey

For resources on dealing with ICE agents in your community visit nouswithoutyou.la/ and @thenycalliance
The Speakeasy is now on YouTube! Tune in to “see” what we’re talking about at youtube.com/@Speakeasy.Podcast
Love The Speakeasy but wish there was more? Check out Bottled in Bond, our new Patreon podcast exclusively for you, our best regulars! Join now for sponsor-free listening, drink recipes from all our guests, and free kits every month from our friends at Shaker & Spoon. Higher proof and aged to perfection, check it out now at patreon.com/BottledinBond

Check out Quiote Imports at quioteimports.com and use promo code “Speakeasy” to get free shipping at checkout.
Get your hands on some Buddha’s Hand Bitters at kingfloyds.com

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
...more
28min
July 08, 2025 Boomerang! with Lalo of Lalo Tequila
Live from BCB Brooklyn and Industry City Greg and Damon catch up with Lalo González of Lalo Tequila. They stop by Lalo’s booth to discuss the booming market for blanco tequila, where the future of agave spirits is headed, and how they hit on the very distinctive bottle and label design that’s become the cornerstone of the brand. It’s a Boomerang! episode live from our own backyard.
Follow Lalo Tequila at @lalospirits
LINKS
Listener Survey
For resources on dealing with ICE agents in your community visit nouswithoutyou.la/ and @thenycalliance
The Speakeasy is now on YouTube! Tune in to “see” what we’re talking about at youtube.com/@Speakeasy.Podcast
Love The Speakeasy but wish there was more? Check out Bottled in Bond, our new Patreon podcast exclusively for you, our best regulars! Join now for sponsor-free listening, drink recipes from all our guests, and free kits every month from our friends at Shaker & Spoon. Higher proof and aged to perfection, check it out now at patreon.com/BottledinBond
Check out Quiote Imports at quioteimports.com and use promo code “Speakeasy” to get free shipping at checkout.
Get your hands on some Buddha’s Hand Bitters at kingfloyds.com
...more
28min
July 04, 2025 In the First Place…
There’s so much more to Korean drinking culture than just soju and Haera Shin wants to tell everyone all about it. From the distinctive (and uniform!) green bottles, to the culture of “first place,” “second place” and “third place” to a fermented rice beverage that’s way older than sake, Haera’s enthusiasm is boundless and contagious. She sits down with the band to talk about her upcoming book on Korean drinks and cocktails, going from the bar to a marketing degree and back to the bar again, and a new concept in New Orleans she’s keeping relatively mysterious… for now.
Plus, are zoomers really drinking less than everyone else? Greg unpacks a new study which shows the kids may finally be catching up and catching on.
Follow Haera at @hairyshins
LINKS
Bran Hill’s episode on Tokki Soju
Vinepair’s article on zoomer drinking habits
Listener Survey
For resources on dealing with ICE agents in your community visit nouswithoutyou.la/ and @thenycalliance
The Speakeasy is now on YouTube! Tune in to “see” what we’re talking about at youtube.com/@Speakeasy.Podcast
Love The Speakeasy but wish there was more? Check out Bottled in Bond, our new Patreon podcast exclusively for you, our best regulars! Join now for sponsor-free listening, drink recipes from all our guests, and free kits every month from our friends at Shaker & Spoon. Higher proof and aged to perfection, check it out now at patreon.com/BottledinBond
Check out Quiote Imports at quioteimports.com and use promo code “Speakeasy” to get free shipping at checkout.
Get your hands on some Buddha’s Hand Bitters at kingfloyds.com
Don’t forget to click SUBSCRIBE and RATE the show if you can.
🔥🔥Join us each week as industry leaders, Damon Boelte and Sother Teague, sit down with a wide range of hospitality and spirits experts from around the world to discuss everything that impacts our business.
FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM:
Damon Boelte @DamonBoelte
Sother Teague @CreativeDrunk
Greg Benson @100ProofGreg
Speakeasy Podcast @SpeakeasyPodcast
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER:
Sother Teague @CreativeDrunk
SpeakeasyRadio @SpeakeasyRadio
Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support The Speakeasy by becoming a member!
The Speakeasy is Powered by Simplecast.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
...more
1h 3min

FAQs about The Speakeasy:

How many episodes does The Speakeasy have?

The podcast currently has 631 episodes available.