Hosted by Chris LeBeau · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 77 episodes
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Join me in my deep dive into the spirits, cocktail, and hospitality industry as I interview people from around the field. decodingcocktails.substack.com
Chris LeBeau hosts Decoding Cocktails, a arts show with 77 episodes published.
Dr. Nicola Nice is the author of The Cocktail Parlor: How Women Brought the Cocktail Home. This book helped me think about cocktails and entertaining more holistically. Clubs, bars, hotels, and restaurants may be where m
Colin Asare-Appiah (Instagram) is the trade director of multicultural and LGBTQ advocacy at Bacardi and the co-founder of the AJABU Festival (Instagram, website), a platform for the African hospitality industry. See high
After roughly 18 years with William Grant & Sons in a wide array of positions, including Global Head of Brand Ambassadors, Charlotte Voisey is now serving in the newly created role of Executive Director for Tales of the
Matt Foster (Instagram) is the founder of Sol Luna | Coffee Whiskey (website, Instagram). With a background as a barista, bartender, and the 2019 winner of the Coffee in Good Spirits Competition, Matt says you should thi
Back in November, I was invited to take part in an entrepreneur-centric event in my city called STL Startup Week. I knew I’d talk about how I ended up running a cocktail business and what all that entails, but it also fe
Zack Abbott is the co-founder and the inventor of the proprietary technology behind ZBiotics. This product is built upon the idea that we have been attempting to tackle those rough mornings after drinking alcohol incorre
Alexandre Gabriel (Instagram) is the owner of Maison Ferrand, which produces products like Citadelle Gin, Ferrand Cognac, and Planteray Rum (formerly Plantation Rum). Several years ago, among many conversations about rum
Molly Horn is the Cocktail Strategy Manager for Total Wine & More, the country’s largest retailer of wine and spirits (Forbes). Molly’s responsibilities include tasting, recruiting, branding, and marketing new first-to-m
Natasha Bahrami, aka “The Gin Girl” (Instagram) fell in love with the spirit of gin after an eye-opening experience with a dirty gin martini in her early years as a restaurateur. Since then, she has worked to expand the
Dr. Kevin Peterson (Instagram) is one of the driving forces behind the perfumery Sfumato Fragrances (website, Instagram) and Castalia Cocktails (website, Instagram) in Detroit. Kevin landed on my radar because of his boo
Charles Joly (website, Instagram) is a renowned mixologist, media personality, and innovative bartending entrepreneur. We met to discuss his latest collaborative venture The Riff Raff Club (website, Instagram) with Virgi
Joe and MariElena Raya launched are the driving force behind Bittermilk Bottling Co. They produce an array of cocktail/mocktail mixers and syrups as well as ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktails. They met at the Culinary Instit
Allen Katz (Instagram) founded the New York Distilling Company (website, Instagram) in 2011. He was in the industry for many years before this and during a trip to the town of Plymouth, England to visit the Plymouth Gin
Marshall Minaya (Instagram) is the beverage manager of Valerie, Madame George, and Lolita in Midtown Manhattan. The work of running three programs aside, we sat down to discuss his newest “project”, being a father to Flo
Today’s conversation is about the upcoming book The Bartender’s Pantry (website, Instagram), which was written by Jim Meehan (Instagram), Bart Sasso (Instagram), and (Instagram). This multi-year project was catalyzed whe
Ben Branson (@Seedlip_Ben) launched Seedlip, the world’s first non-alcoholic spirit in 2015. Today it is available in roughly 25 countries and because it carries the designation non-alcoholic, it can be easily shipped to
Kip Moffitt (@kipmoffitt) is the head bartender of Superbueno (website, Instagram). A Mexican-American bar that opened for just over a year in Manhattan’s East Village and was just awarded the #2 spot on North America’s
Jeremy Wochnick and Erin Nysse work for The Barrel Mill (website, Instagram), a barrel cooperage in Minnesota. We met when they were exhibiting at the American Craft Spirits Association’s conference in Denver this year a
Last week Mexican authorities raided the home and office of Tequila Matchmaker (TM), also known as the Additive Free Alliance. For many years, their forum has been a place for agave distillate fanatics to visit along wit
André Darlington (website, Instagram) is the author of 12 books, including the one we discussed, Cowboy Cocktails. In 2020, André became the first cocktail writer to circumnavigate the globe since Charles H. Baker a hund
Matt Foster
product manager · Sol Luna | Coffee Whiskey
1 appearance on this show
Zack Abbott
co-founder and inventor · ZBiotics
1 appearance on this show
Kevin Peterson
author of Cocktail Theory · lifestyle medicine provider
1 appearance on this show
Charles Joly
Crafthouse Cocktails
1 appearance on this show
Jim Meehan
author of three cocktail books
1 appearance on this show
Ben Branson
Founder of Seedlip · Seedlip
1 appearance on this show
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