Designated Drinker Show

Get the featured cocktail recipes: Sazerac Twist This epi is all about twinkling stars that make a huge impact. It’s all about, Lisa Martin. Yes, she is the Founder & CEO of Embrace Communications. Yes, she started her first firm 20 years ago when women were required to wear pantyhose to the office. And yes, she did it all while making sure volunteering and doing good were a priority. Her journey...

Get the featured cocktail recipes:B*tch G&T Shortcuts don’t work. You have to work hard to get ahead. These are wise words and exactly what Joe lives by. He’s long been a part of the craft cocktail movement, so his progression into pioneering a new frontier—artisanal ice—just made sense. Why artisanal ice? Sure, it’s pretty, but the real selling point is that super-sized cubes melt more slowly, wh...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: Future Minded By day, he’s a communication consultant but once a month, after the sun goes down, Pierce McManus turns into a down-right liar. A Perfect Liar, to be exactly. As the co-host and producer of the Perfect Liars Club, a monthly storytelling show with a twist, he brings his sharp wit and humor to the masses. He’s performed with The Moth, Story District a...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: Sombrero de Paja Daniella’s love for food and hospitality began at the early age of 13 when she founded a successful catering business from her home in Dominican Republic. From there, she went on to graduate from CIA, cook in some of the best restaurants the nation has to offer and eventually earned a Michelin Star at her very own restaurant, Bresca--one of DC’s f...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: Mardi Gras Crusta This Southern-born charismatic hunting, fishing, Harley-riding, celebrity chef/author/restaurateur has made countless appearances on The Today Show, hosted Travel Channel’s “American Grilled” and has been a judge on both Food Network’s “Chopped” and “Chopped, Jr.” And even with all this success and notoriety, David Guas still stands by his resta...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: Mi Corazon   It’s incredible how the humblest of things can inspire greatness. Or how sometimes being lost is exactly what you need to be in order to find direction. According to Ruben Garcia, this is how he found his way into the kitchen. Of course, this may be how it all started, but his tenacity, talent and love of cooking is why he’s called some of the most h...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: Mindless Sour   Born in Peru, Melanie had her first taste of her homeland’s national spirit at the ripe old age of 12 years when she topped her ice cream with a bit of pisco. This early life experience—or as Melanie would call it, “divine intervention”—set into motion her journey to becoming the founder of Macchu Pisco, the first woman-founded pisco export busine...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: It’s All Longberries To Me   They say to change the world, you must first change yourself and Jessica is living that truth. By continuously seeking out new opportunities—and sometimes just creating them for herself—she has carved out a career path filled with exciting challenges that has also afforded her the space she needed to grow professional, as well as pers...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: Tini Time & Scotch Is For Breakfast   In a glass, add dreamer, entertainer and magician with a large spoonful of tenacity. Shake vigorously and pour into a chilled glass. This my friends, is a classic Vance Henderson.   Vance’s journey to becoming the National Brand Ambassador for Hendricks Gin started when a very young Vance was singing with, directing and writi...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: SeeWEED Margarita   Owning and operating your own business can be difficult. And managing a successful marriage even more of a challenge but these co-preneurs sure do make it look easy. Married to each other, as well as to creating a salon experience that won’t compromise the health of their clients or their employees, Ana Maria and David prove that sometimes, yo...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: Can I Have A Spot Of Tea? At 2 years old, Laura announced she would become a food critic. Now how she knew what that meant, who knows? But time has proven 2 year-old Laura’s proclamation wasn’t far off. As the food editor and Young & Hungry columnist at Washington City Paper, she is so much more than a critic. Her words impact more than where one might choose to...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: High Makamaka Paloma Educator. Author. Culinary disruptor. Kristen Coffield of theculinarycure.com inspires us to take control of the controllable, create the right “conditions of life” to live healthier and get rid of all the sh*t that no longer serves us. She shares with us how to develop a few culinary habits that can profoundly influence our health, happiness...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: High Makamaka Paloma ’Tis the epi to be jolly. And how could we not get into the holiday spirit while spending time with Dustin Lara of Brut Champagne and Wine Bar and guest barkeep, Torrence Swain, the East Coast Regional Manager of El Silencio. They take a little stress out of holiday dinner planning by sharing tips on wines and bubbles that are sure to pair we...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: It's All In the Family We sit down and talk with the myth, the legend, the unicorn that is Duane Sylvestre. He’s part teacher, part entertainer and definitely a whole lot of fun. He shares how he carved out his career by claiming the bar as his stage and making guests into fans by tending to their every need. Since leaving the bartender’s life in search of a bett...

Get the featured cocktail recipes: Hidden Gin, Laughing Toni & Love Child Old Fashioned If we could put Tigger the Tiger, capocollo and Jamieson Whiskey between bread, we’d have one tasty sandwich and we’d name it, Casey Patten. Or as we like to call him, the Sandwich Shaman. As we hang out at Gina’s new late night joint, Last Call, she serves up 2 shaman-worthy cocktails while Casey shares his jo...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: The Cosmos Are Calling On this epi, we fill Gina’s newly opened bar, Last Call, with all kinds of spirits–and not just the kind she pours over ice–as we sit down with Lucia Peters, the author of the recently published book, “Dangerous Games To Play In The Dark.” What can one expect to find within the pages of Lucia’s guide to summoning spirits? Well, in the forwar...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: Gobble Gobble & Irish Coffee Shooter for 4 It’s the 2nd Annual Tipsy Tomfoolery & Tryptophan Friendsgiving episode. So, you know what that means. It’s time to gobble, since celebrity chef, Adam Greenberg is going to be serving up something Tday-lish from his kitchen. And time to wobble, since Rachel and Gina are serving up some delicious autumn-inspired cocktails...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: The Improved Piña Colada Behind a smile that can light up a room, is Clyde Davis, Jr., a self-proclaimed professional bad influence and the VP of Founding Spirits. As if spending a beautiful day with Clyde bayside wasn’t enough, between the many laughs, we explored his Founding Spirits award-winning American Craft Vodka, American Whiskey and Arroyo’s “Never Bitter...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: I'm On A Boat...Dog What is the FINvitational? It’s a day spent on the Chesapeake hanging with good friends, eating the finest of seafood, tipping back a few cocktails and living to tell your “big fish” stories. It is indeed, a very good day. On this epi, Jamie Swanson from Congressional Seafood plays cruise director, as our guest barkeep, Brian “The Pirate” McSwa...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: "76" 2 amazing chicks. 1 amazing patio. Lex Soler and Angela Laino sit down with us on the patio of their Miami-inspired cocktail lounge, the Flamingo Cocktail Club. The concept is cool but not as cool as these 2 badass bartenders turned entrepreneurs, who have renovated a church into a zero-waste craft cocktail bar with a plant-based food menu in the heart of Nas...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: Fancy Lady Soccer Club As Ann and Sandy both say, Smith & Lens is so much more than a gallery of just 4-walls and we couldn’t agree more. Just like the founders, it’s a little bit quirky, totally unique and a whole lot creative. The walls are adorned with works by various artists, to include Ann’s thoughtful, yet a bit rebellious approach to photography and mix me...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: 50/50–Nashville Style Meet Simon Ford. CEO of Fords Gin. The Jedi Master of Juniper. The bartender’s bartender. Or for those who really think they know him, Mr. Fords Gin. No matter what you call him, he is as charming as he is successful and makes for the perfect cocktail muse. Simon set out to make the quintessential gin and that is exactly what you find in Ford...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: Divide & Conquer Chris has a lot to brag about. His wildly successful craft cocktail bar, Raised By Wolves, was named Imbibe Magazine’s “Cocktail Bar of the Year 2019,” and Esquire declares them as one of “The Best Bars in America, 2019.” As if that wasn’t impressive enough, it is one of the only venues in the U.S. that combines a bar and a fine spirits retail ope...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: In Plain Sight Like Zak, some people are just natural mentors. They live to share knowledge, invest in other’s growth and find fullfillment in seeing them excel. Those who have had the privilege to work with, and learn from, Zak are the proof in that pudding, so to speak. Before he signed on at NOCHI, Zak was an instructor at the prestigious Culinary Institute of...

Get the featured cocktail recipe: Watermelon Skyy's Anne Louise is a true breath of fresh air. She’s magnetic. She’s charming. And she creates brand experiences for the entire Campari America portfolio that makes us fall in love with a liquid, as well as her. She definitely stole the show, and our hearts, all without effort. Anne Louise is proof life is wonderful journey. It's about being open to...