Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST

Send us Fan Mail I’m speaking 🎙️   with Andrew Nelson , Managing Partner of WarRoom Cellars .  🍷 We had a blast on this podcast. We talk about big business ideas and strategies but have fun with storytelling, a couple of jokes, and even a funny tall tale. We tasted four amazing, I mean amazing, wines! He is from Ojai, CA and his background is deep in the viticulture side of the business before he...

Send us Fan Mail I’m speaking with Heather Ransome , Founder and CEO of Zero Proof Go , an online directory and website dedicated to connecting people and venues with nonalcoholic options available to order. Heather is an industry veteran of the restaurant industry and has loved it since starting as a waitress and moved up throughout all levels of the industry including owning her own restaurant a...

Send us Fan Mail I’m speaking 🎙️with Stephanie Houston , President and Co-founder, of Island Getaway Rum , 🥃 which are Island 🏖 Inspired and Texas Made down in Dripping Springs, TX. Stephanie’s family came from the Canary Islands 🏖 by way of Mexico to Texas over 100-plus years ago. She’s the first Latina rum producer in the state of Texas and beyond. We discuss how to ask for help as you embark o...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m speaking 🎙️with Kate Dingwall , a Canadian from Toronto, a very successful freelance writer ✍ who has written for Forbes.com, The Toronto Star, Maxim, Serious Eats, 🍽 Elle, Liquor.com, Wine Enthusiast, 📔 and more. Like all entrepreneurs, Kate started out doing what we all do: hustle, email, call, and partner with those in the industry who see the potential we know...

Send us Fan Mail 📢I talk🎙️with John King Co-Founder & Owner of The Original Pickle 🥒 Shot . John’s journey started out as an athlete, coach, and fitness guru. He was in the right place at the right time and is now a very successful entrepreneur and beverage innovator. Originally from Pennsylvania, he moved to Ocean City, MD  upon graduating college and found his way into the restaurant indus...

Send us Fan Mail I’m speaking with Jonathan Neff Co-Founder, Managing Owner and Master Brewer of NEFF Brewing located in Tulsa, OK .  Jonathan is a NANO – Technologist and research scientist turned Fermentation expert , in part due to his diagnosis of Celiac Disease *. If you have heard of it or know anyone with it, it’s a very painful way of life if undiagnosed. But given that was back in 2012, n...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m speaking 🎙️ with Josh Sapienza , my first food and beverage Tech company! Whoohoo! Look out everybody Thirsty Thursdays @ 3PM EST is branching out! The segment is called Tech Bites ! Josh, has a varied and vast experience of 30-plus years in the restaurant industry. From managing restaurants to finding the perfect location via real estate to all types of consulting...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m speaking with Susan Coss , Founder of Mezcalistas and North of the Border Adventures . Mezcalistas started as a blog and has become their media arm and number one resource for info on the world of mezcal and the expanding world of Mexican spirits.   North of the Border Adventures is a media, events, and consulting company dedicated to promoting and celebrating the w...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass.   This week, I’m speaking 🎙️ Brian Rosen , Chairman of Growth Beverage which owns 4 entities helping innovative brands accelerate through funding, incubation, and points of distribution in 6 state...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! 😋  My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast 🎙️ which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture 🌾 🍇 to Glass. 🍷🍻 🍸    This week, I’m speaking with Ben Berman , Co-Founder and CEO of Tomorrow Farms . Ben, born and raised in Portland, Maine, has always been a food 🥘entrepreneur.    In middl...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m speaking with Kelley Jones Principal of Kelley Jones Hospitality , which focuses on F&B operations for on-premise venues, and President and CEO of Hospitality Alliance , a hospitality management, development, and consulting firm for the on-premise world from start to finish.  He started out at Pussers Rum and helped grow and open several locations which was the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST ! My name is Jessie Ott , the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass.   This week, I’m speaking with Pável Martínez , Sommelier 🍷 at Hotel La Casa de la Playa by Grupo Xcaret in Playa del Carmen.    Pável has been in the restaurant 🍽️ business his whole career st...

Send us Fan Mail   Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST Now on YouTube!📽 Subscribe and Watch Here !😁💃 📢I talk🎙️with  Nicolas Guillant ,   a   Frenchman who spent his first 5 years in Cameroon, Africa, and grew up in Paris, France. I met Nicolas working together at Remy Cointreau , my first job in the beverage industry and his second. 🍷  🎇 🎉 ✨ 👏😋 🥂  😁  This week, I’m speaking with , a  After gradu...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott , the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. This week, I’m speaking with Chris Scott of ThirtyFifty for part two of our podcast. We get into AI, and deep dive into being a student of WSET exams as well as how to become an Approved Program...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott , the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. This week, I’m speaking with Chris Scott, Co-Owner of ThirtyFifty with his wife Jane Scott . They started their wine 🍷venture in 2002 in London starting with wine tastings 😋 which grew into cor...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass.   This week, I’m speaking with John Walker and Bill Shufelt with Athletic Brewing. Bill, who was living a busy life within the finance sector, who also loved working out became tired of drinking a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. I’m speaking with Claire Warner , Tales of the Cocktails Foundation , M ember Board of Directors , and co-founder of Seedlip’s sister company, Æcorn, non-alcoholic aperitifs based on Sussex wine g...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott , the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass.  This week, I’m speaking with John Glaser, founder and whiskymaker of Compass Box Scotch Whisky . He's a Midwesterner and a Scotch Whisky innovator, who originally wanted a career in wine. H...

Send us Fan Mail Do you love #coffee? Well, you're going to love this podcast! This Thursday I’m speaking with Co-Founders of STEM Tom Clark and Professor Dr. Chahan Yeretzian . What these two gentlemen are embarking on is way past my understanding of science but I had to interview them to gain a better understanding of their process and end goal of bridging the coffee demand gap in the near...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m speaking with Lorenzo Zonin, Owner and Winemaker of Podere San Cristoforo Winery located in Tuscany, and Jaume Bages, a farmer located in the Priorat in the Catalonia area of Spain. Lorenzo uses biodynamic farming for his winery of 17 hectares or 42 acres mostly planted with Petit Verdot. And yes, he is a cousin of the famous Zonin family.   A wine tasting brought t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST ! My name is Jessie Ott , the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. This week, I’m speaking with Jack Seifrick Founder & Proprietor of CAST Wines . You know those people you meet that can change careers and be successful at all of them ? That’s Jack . A curi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass.   This week, I’m speaking with Tim Dennis & Brian Hewitt Co-Hosts of Beer Guys Radio from Atlanta, GA. Beer Guys Radio started out covering the craft beer industry in the state of Georgia and...

Send us Fan Mail  Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. This week, I’m speaking with David Rosenthal , owner of Partnership Wine Consulting , who most recently spent nearly 16 years as a winemaker for Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery in Woodinville, WA ....

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass.  This week, I’m speaking with Wim Bens, President and Founder of Lakewood Brewing Company. For me now, he’s also one of my favorite radio voices out there. Just wait for it. Born in Antwerp, Belgi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass.  This week, I’m speaking with Seth Benhaim , the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Broken Barrel Whiskey Co . Seth is an innovator at his core .    He is the quarterback of two very success...