Episode 24: LGBTQ Club Culture in the 70s & 80s with Emily Colucci
Release Date: 06/22/2018
The Master Blend: A Bartender Series - Nicolas Torres
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This week, we’re continuing our Bartender Interview Series, The Master Blend - a collaboration with BERTOUX Brandy. This week’s guest is Nicolas Torres, owner and bar director at popular San Francisco bar True Laurel. We spoke about what it takes to create a sustainable cocktail bar, the California influence on True Laurel, and the lighter direction the drinks industry as a whole is taking. Â
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The Master Blend: A Bartender Series - Michael Kudra
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This week we’re continuing our Bartender Interview Series, The Master Blend - a collaboration with BERTOUX Brandy. This week’s guest is Michael Kudra, head bartender at the three Michelin starred restaurant Quince in San Francisco. Kudra, formerly from Chicago’s famed Aviary, moved to California in 2017 to take over the fine dining bar program at Quince. We discussed how his move to California has helped to encourage his biggest inspirations behind the bar.
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Episode 76: Four Roses Bourbon Master Distiller Brent Elliott
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Brent Elliott is the Master Distiller behind one of the most iconic bourbon brands in the world - Four Roses Bourbon. We got to chat about the dramatic journey that Four Roses has had since 1888(!), how they were one of the few distilleries in America to survive Prohibition, and how Seagrams nearly destroyed the brand in the 1950s. I also got a chance to taste the "Fourth Rose" in their lineup -Â Four Roses Small Batch Select.
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The Master Blend: A Bartender Series - Natalie Lichtman
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This week we’re continuing the second chapter of the Bartender Interview Series, The Master Blend - a collaboration with BERTOUX Brandy, with guest, Natalie Lichtman. She may come off as an elegant pink-haired Holly Golightly, but Natalie’s quick rise in the intense restaurant and bar world of San Francisco has proven she has ambition and the chops. We talked about the importance of mentors, getting that big break, and how she finds a way to feed her unique artistry behind the bar and away from it.Â
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Episode 74: Plymouth Gin Master Distiller Sean Harrison
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Sean Harrison is the Master Distiller behind one of the oldest and iconic gin recipes known around the globe, Plymouth Gin. We spoke about his serendipitous beginnings with the distillery, what it's like to be the maker of such a historic brand, and the evolution he's witnessed of gin and Plymouth over the last two decades.
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The Master Blend: A Bartender Series - Christopher Longoria
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This week, we’re kicking off our second chapter of The Master Blend - A Bartender Series. In collaboration with BERTOUX Brandy, the Bit by a Fox Podcast will host a series of interviews with some of America’s most acclaimed and innovative bartenders. Kicking off this second installment in the series is Christopher Longoria, Beverage Director at San Francisco's popular, Che Fico. We talked poetry, California, hip hop, and his 20 year evolution behind the bar.
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Episode 72: Champagne Laurent-Perrier with President Michelle DeFeo
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Champagne House Laurent-Perrier, founded in 1812, is the largest family and female run Champagne House in the world. Francofile, New Jersey Native, and President of Laurent-Perrier, Michelle DeFeo has been at the helm since 2014, but her experience in the champagne business goes back to the very beginnings of her career. We discuss her journey to the champagne business, the feminist history of the brand, and what kind of responsibility comes with leading the largest female run Champagne House.
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Episode 71: Black Cow Vodka with co-founder Paul "Archie" Archard
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Vodka made entirely from MILK?! Black Cow Vodka is perhaps the first of its kind in the world made from discarded whey - a bi-product of cheese production. Co-founder Paul "Archie" Archard talks about how this harebrained idea came to be, how Black Cow is one of the most sustainable spirits being made, and why milk is the perfect organic ingredient to make vodka with.Â
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Episode 70: Mr Black Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur
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Mr Black Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur was created 5 years ago in Australia by distiller Philip Moore & coffee-enthusiast/designer, Tom Baker. A first of its kind, Mr Black is a coffee liqueur made with single origin cold brew coffee & Australian wheat vodka. It has half the sugar and 10 times the coffee of traditional coffee liqueurs - a cold brew spirit for coffee purists. At the official LA launch, I sat down with co-founder Tom Baker and Mr Black’s Global Coffee Ambassador, Martin Hudak.
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Episode 69: Getting Päntsdrunk with Podcast Superstar Kristen Meinzer
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Päntsdrunk is the Finnish concept of drinking alone in your underwear. It is also the title of a popular book by Miska Rantanen detailing the intricacies of this Finnish practice. Podcast host, producer and all around superstar Kristen Meinzer knows a thing or two about getting Päntsdrunk after she and her co-host lived two weeks of it for her popular podcast By the Book.Â
info_outlineLast week we kicked off a Gay Pride Month series on the podcast. We’re devoting the rest of the month to LGBTQ stories - the importance of gay bars and clubs through history, the cultural impact of the movements that came out of those important spaces, and the renegades, revolutionaries and icons behind it all. It’s such a big subject, we’ve created our first podcast series for #PrideMonth. In this second episode in this series, we touch on the gay club culture in the 70s and 80s - the music, dancing, drag, sex, and drugs involved in the queer club scene, and how it crossed over and influenced straight/mainstream culture through the years.
Our guest this week is Emily Colucci, a writer and arts curator based in New York City. Emily is co-founder of Filthy Dreams,a blog analyzing art and culture through a queer lens and a touch of camp.
This week's featured cocktail happens to be one of the most popular cocktails of the disco era: The Harvey Wallbanger. This drink was heavily advertised all throughout the 70s to promote sales of Galliano Liqueur which, in turn, became the most popular liqueur in America during the decade.
Harvey Wallbanger
2 oz Vodka
4 oz Fresh orange juice
3/4 oz Galliano
Add vodka and orange juice to a tall, ice-filled highball glass. Float the Galliano on top and stir. Garnish with orange wheel and enjoy.