Business of Beverages

Send us Fan Mail Our Short silly quiz continues! Which drinks business was founded in 1824? Which well known drink was originally created to be a mixture for Whiskey?  If you have a suggestion or clues for a drink we should tackle, please click on the link above! Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X" or LinkedIn Business of Beverages is self-funded...

Send us Fan Mail Our short silly quiz continues... Which drinks business buys more Saffron than anybody else? Which drink was created in Australia by Thomas Mayne? If you have a suggestion or clues for a drink we should tackle, please click on the link above! Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X" or LinkedIn Business of Beverages is self-funded and...

Send us Fan Mail Our Short silly quiz continues! Which drinks business was bombed in WWII? Whose "Traditional" beer isn't as traditional as you might think? If you have a suggestion or clues for a drink we should tackle, please click on the link above! Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X" or LinkedIn Business of Beverages is self-fun...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn which beverage books should be next on your reading list, if you have already finished the books we recommended in our first Book Club ! Following a very well recieved Book Club episode a while back, we return with teh second chapter in what will definitely become a regular feature for us. Once again, Foxy and Will are joined by the drinks polymat...

Send us Fan Mail Our Short silly quiz continues! Which beverage brand was founded by a Swiss watchmaker to settle upset stomachs? Which drink was launched in 48 countries in a few short years, only to be withdrawn from all in an even shorter timescale? If you have a suggestion or clues for a drink we should tackle, please click on the link above! Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn which beverage books should be next on your reading list. In the first of what we hope will be a regular feature, Foxy and Will are joined by the drinks polymath, Judith Boyle , to review and recommend beverage books that we have found inspiring.  Here's a link to the books discussed: Tasting Beer - Randy Mosher McCarthy's Bar: A Journey...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn how product taste testing went from a status driven lottery (where one mythical taster/ "man from Del Monte" could decide on the quality of a whole batch) to a systematic quality tool for companies to improve their products and people. After a brief break, we return with an in-person interview with Richard Boughton and Tom Brown from Fla...

Send us Fan Mail More quiz fun, this time with a pair of unexpected beverages. Please send us suggestions and/or questions using the link above. Please also subscribe to help us keep the pod ad free. Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X" or LinkedIn Business of Beverages is self-funded and hosted/ edited/produced by Will Keating . Pádraig Fox co-hos...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn how Mouse Kingdom Liqueurs believe that honesty > sustainability when it comes to making luscious, low-impact, local liquids in Manchester. We jump straight into a discussion with Felix Crosse who started Mouse Kingdom Liqueurs with a mission to improve the quality and sustainability of the liqueurs used in the leading UK bars. Hands on and hon...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! Our Quiz is back, better than ever... well actually it's pretty much the same, but that's the way we love it! Please send us suggestions and/or questions using the link above. Please also subscribe to help us keep the pod ad free. Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X" or LinkedIn Business of Beverages is se...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn about the vibrant and distinctive beverage culture in Jakarta, Indonesia. Foxy ( Pádraig Fox ) has been away a lot in recent weeks, trotting the globe and exploring the drinks culture is different locations. Here he brings us an on the ground report on everything from coffee to cocktails in Jakarta.  Mopeds, robots, fried eggs, toilet seats and ev...

Send us Fan Mail It happened! A listener finally sent us in questions for our short, silly drinks quiz and we're thrilled. Firstly because somebody loves a beverage based quiz as much as we do, but secondly because we didn't have to do the research work ourselves for a change! If you think you've got a good drink/set of clues, just drop us a text by clicking the link above, or find...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn how brands like Jameson and Guinness invest in their future by entrusting their past to Archivists. It's exceptionally rare to get Diageo and Pernod Ricard to agree on anything (!) but the importance of brand archives is central to both Guinness and Irish Distillers. Eibhlin Colgan and Carol Quinn sat down in the Connoisseur Bar in the Guinne...

Send us Fan Mail The drinks quiz that nobody asked for is back!  If you have a drink that you want us to take on, send us a text using the link above Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X" or LinkedIn Business of Beverages is self-funded and hosted/ edited/produced by Will Keating . Pádraig Fox co-hosts in a strictly personal capacity . All opinions...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn how Ireland's leading Technological University has created a stackable, flexible, hands on and industry led range of qualifications for students who want to advance in the beverage industry.  Guest Rena Barry-Ryan and Terence Delaney give the perspective of the academic and student as Will and Foxy relay their own experiences. Click here to s...

Send us Fan Mail The drinks quiz that nobody asked for is back!  If you have a drink that you want us to take on, send us a text using the link above Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X" or LinkedIn Business of Beverages is self-funded and hosted/ edited/produced by Will Keating . Pádraig Fox co-hosts in a strictly personal capacity . All opinions...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn how casks are the underappreciated linchpin of the distilling industry and how their future is looking very uncertain amongst rising demand, restricted supply and changing regulations. Martin Purvis is a trans-national treasure trove of information and analysis of the spirits industry. From Manchester to Edinburgh to Kentucky, via Africa, Martin h...

Send us Fan Mail The drinks quiz that nobody asked for is back!  If you have a drink that you want us to take on, send us a text using the link above Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X" or LinkedIn Business of Beverages is self-funded and hosted/ edited/produced by Will Keating . Pádraig Fox co-hosts in a strictly personal capacity . All opinions...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn why independent professional, unbiased journalism is vital to the long term health of the drinks industry. With Foxy unavailable we jump straight into an interview with Maggie Kimberl . Maggie has been a professional critic and journalist covering spirits in general, and Bourbon in particular, for over a decade. The industry has boomed in that tim...

Send us Fan Mail The drinks quiz that nobody asked for is back!  If you have a drink that you want us to take on, send us a text using the link above Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X" or LinkedIn Business of Beverages is self-funded and hosted/ edited/produced by Will Keating . Pádraig Fox co-hosts in a strictly personal capacity . All opinions...

Send us Fan Mail  In this episode you'll learn what the future holds for non alcoholic beers. Brendan Williams ran the global non alc business for Carlsberg and literally wrote the book on how to roll out a successful NA strategy for other brewers, large and small. Now he's put himself in the game as the co-founder of a new functional NA beer: NuWave . We discuss the current state of the...

Send us Fan Mail The drinks quiz that nobody asked for is back! Actually, a few people did actually ask for it in the last few months so we were happy to oblige. Can Will recover from the disaster of his last showing on this quiz?  If you have a drink that you want us to take on, send us a text using the link above! Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X&q...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn what the beverage trends are in South Korea as Foxy recounts his observations and insights from two (!) recent trips to Seoul. In another of Foxy's Tales, Biz Bev Pod's very own Padraig Fox gives his view on all he learned in Korea: from robot waiters to "no brand" cola to "Kelly's" local lager and the 24 hr MEGA...

Send us Fan Mail The drinks quiz that nobody asked for is back! Actually, a few people did actually ask for it in the last few months so we were happy to oblige. We intended to ease ourselves back in gently but Will's brain was not engaged... If you have a drink that you want us to take on, send us a text using the link above! Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBev...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn how the "third age" of coffee has presented challenges and opportunities for coffee distributors. Paddy Sands and Michael Ingle explain how a very safe, stable, well established coffee business decided the time was right to take a risk and vertically integrate. The new Roasthouse is a big investment for a small company like Tall Order bu...