The Curious Bartender Podcast
by Tristan Stephenson
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#101 Bevan Fawcett - Floor Malting, Heritage Barley, Maris Otter &…
#101 Bevan Fawcett - Floor Malting, Heritage Barley, Maris Otter &…
About this podcast
Long-form conversations with the leading minds in drinks, spanning history, science, culture, and craft, with bestselling author and bartender Tristan Stephenson.
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- #101 Bevan Fawcett - Floor Malting, Heritage Barley, Maris Otter & Selling English Malt to America · 56 min · Episode 101Bevan Fawcett is an eight-generation maltster, and this episode was recorded on the floor maltings at Thomas Fawcett & Sons in Castleford, West Yorkshire. Fawcett’s has made malt…
- #100 Tristan Stephenson (Interviewed by Craig Harper) - Black Rock, Whisky Me, Guy Ritchie, Podcasting, the 1650s and Smelling Sugar · 2 h 27 min · Episode 100For episode 100 we turn the tables. Craig Harper, a close friend and regular drinking partner, takes the interviewer’s chair and puts questions from listeners and friends to the…
- #99 Steven Moore - Drinking Vessels: Tea Cups, the Coupe Myth, Sharing Wine Glasses, Murano’s Glass Prison & Martinis in the Grand Canal · 1 h 28 min · Season 1 Episode 99This week we’re at the home of Steven Moore, Antiques Roadshow regular, former dealer, auctioneer, curator and pottery manufacturer, and the self-styled David Attenborough of…
- #98 Jonny Garrett - Pub Myths, Cask's Comeback, British Hops & 13,000 Years of Beer · 2 h 28 min · Season 1 Episode 98Award-winning beer writer Jonny Garrett, co-founder of YouTube's Craft Beer Channel and the only writer to win Fortnum & Mason Drinks Book of the Year twice, joins us in the week…
- #97 Dawn Davies MW - Champagne! Production, Appreciation, History; Leaving The Whisky Exchange and Why Coupes Should Be Banned · 2 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 97Dawn Davies MW is back for a rare second appearance. We asked, and she answered with six bottles of fizz, each one a chapter in a career that started as a waitress and bar hand…
- #96 Valérie Gamond - Inside Chartreuse: Monks, A Vow Of Silence & The Liqueur They Refuse To Make More Of · 1 h 4 min · Episode 96Chartreuse is the most sought-after liqueur in the world. In this episode Valérie Gamond gives the first ever interview from Chartreuse on a podcast. She was born in Voiron…
- #95 James Crowden - England's Secret Champagne, the Tax That Toppled a Prime Minister, and the Fight for Cider's Future · 2 h 11 min · Episode 95James Crowden is a soldier turned shepherd turned cider historian and poet. He is the author of Ciderland and Cider Country - among others - and In 1999 he was made the Apple Day…
- #94 Giorgio Bargiani - Connaught, Reflections off Ago, Gucci's Martini, and the Glass Built for Two · 1 h 33 min · Episode 94Giorgio Bargiani is Assistant Director of Mixology at The Connaught Bar in Mayfair, where he has spent close to twelve years working alongside Agostino Perrone — starting as a…
- #93 Is This The World's Best Distillery? Capreolus, Eau De Vie, Inadequacy, Capturing Nature, King Charles, Baby's Heads - Barney Wilczak · 1 h 51 min · Episode 93Barney Wilczak spent the first part of his career as a conservation photojournalist, building a media library of habitat restoration for botanic gardens around the world, and…
- #92 Jeff Bell - New York's Most Famous Speakeasy + Philosophy, Fatherhood, KP'ing, Pandemic & More... · 1 h 39 min · Episode 92Jeff Bell is the owner of PDT — Please Don't Tell — the hidden-phone-booth speakeasy that helped define modern New York cocktail culture, alongside Crif Dogs, Mixteca, Kees and…
- #91 Liquipedia Live – Tree Shrews vs Andre the Giant, Getting Drunk on Sweat, Champagne Tower Architecture, How Old is Water, Ian Fleming, Drinking Rocket Fuel, Soju & Swimming Pools · 1 h 54 min · Episode 91We're doing something different this time: a special edition replaying the Liquipedia seminar we delivered live at Tales of the Cocktail 2026 in New Orleans, sponsored by…
- #90 David Wondrich – Cocktail History: The Only William, Savoy Without a American Bar, WW2 Supply Officers, Business Cards, Unmarked Graves, America's Love of Ice · 1 h 38 min · Episode 90David Wondrich is a drinks historian and author of Imbibe!, Punch and the Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, and The Comic Book History of the Cocktail. The conversation…
- #89 Julie Reiner - NYC, Clover Club, Pegu Club, Cocktail Renaissance, Milady's · 1 h 5 min · Episode 89Julie Reiner arrived in New York in 1998 after a stint bartending in San Francisco, following her wife to a city she'd always wanted to live in, and found a scene stuck on sour…
- #88 Grover Sanschagrin - Agave Matchmaker, CRT, Additives, Lawsuits, Police Raids, Agave Syrup · 1 h 17 min · Episode 88Grover Sanschagrin is the co-founder, alongside his wife Scarlet, of Agave Matchmaker — the platform, formerly known as Tequila Matchmaker, that has spent over a decade…
- #87 Daniele Biondi - Indiana Jones of Rum, Clairin & Haiti, Viche & Colombia, Hampden, Velier, Luca Gargano · 2 h 17 min · Episode 87Daniele Biondi is one of the world's leading experts on the rum category. Working with Luca Gargano at Velier, he is one of the key figures behind the international rediscovery…
- #86 British Rum Special - Dropworks, Outlier, J. Gow: History, Production, GI, Tasting, Rum Market, Future of Rum, British vs. Caribbean · 1 h 46 min · Episode 86We sat down — hungover, under-slept, and drinking before nine in the morning — with three of the people actually building British rum from the ground up: Lewis Hayes of…
- #85 Dré Masso - 30 Years of Bartending, Creating Altos, Henry Besant, LAB Bar, Nusa Caña, Dick Bradsell, Potato Head · 1 h 52 min · Episode 85Dré Masso is one of the most consequential figures in the modern cocktail world — a British-Colombian bartender whose career has stretched from the epicentre of 1990s London to a…
- #84 Jörg Meyer - Gin Basil Smash, 50 Best Bars, Le Lion, German Bar Scene · 1 h 31 min · Episode 86Jörg Meyer is the founder of Le Lion — Bar de Paris in Hamburg, one of the most consistently recognised cocktail bars in the world and the birthplace of the Gin Basil Smash, a…
- #83 Bruce Russell - Wild Turkey, Rye, Barrels, Blending, Custodianship, Bourbon Glut, Jimmy Russell, Eddie Russell, Vintage Bourbon · 1 h 58 min · Episode 83This week we're filming on location at Wild Turkey in Lawrenceburg, sitting in the old station house with Bruce Russell — third-generation whiskey maker and associate blender…
- #82 Simon Ford - Ford's Gin, Plymouth Gin, 86 Co., Martinis, London, NYC, First Brand Ambassador, Tales of the Cocktail, · 2 h 15 min · Episode 82Simon Ford is the co-founder of The 86 Co. and creator of Ford's Gin, and the man widely credited as the first brand ambassador the modern spirits industry ever produced (though…
