The Booze Hustle
Food & Cooking Podcasts
The Booze Hustle podcast features laid-back and fun conversations about wine and spirits with stars of the industry about how they got their starts. Host Christen LaRochelle gives listeners a behind the scenes look at the origins of brands, interviews with distillers, winemakers, bartenders, chefs and stories about what it takes to hustle your way through the booze industry.
Email theboozehustle@gmail.com for media requests and collaboration opportunities.
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Location:
United States
Description:
The Booze Hustle podcast features laid-back and fun conversations about wine and spirits with stars of the industry about how they got their starts. Host Christen LaRochelle gives listeners a behind the scenes look at the origins of brands, interviews with distillers, winemakers, bartenders, chefs and stories about what it takes to hustle your way through the booze industry. Email theboozehustle@gmail.com for media requests and collaboration opportunities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Language:
English
Episodes
Brenny Savoy
3/11/2024
Chats with industry friends are the best kind of episodes! On this episode, Christen sits down with chef/bartender Brenny Savoy and talks all things bartending industry while drinking whiskey.
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Duration:00:48:08
Kassandra Laskarides
2/26/2024
Kassandra Laskarides is the Hospitality Manager for Chattermark Distillery in Boston. We discuss her education and diverse background and the path that led her under the bridge in Charlestown.
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Duration:00:37:23
Seth Benhaim
1/29/2024
Founder & CCO of Broken Barrel Whiskey • Infuse Spirits | 2023 Brand Innovator of the Year | Spirits Entrepreneur | Spirits Educato
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Duration:00:47:52
Karen MacNeil
1/16/2024
Karen MacNeil has been named one of the “100 most influential people in wine in the United States.” She started her career as a free-lance journalist and is known as an extraordinary researcher and writer. She is the author of The Wine Bible, a James Beard Award winner, and has shaped wine culture for over 4o years.
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Duration:00:41:47
New Year, Same Me
1/2/2024
Welcome back to season 4! Short little ep after Xmas break to ease into the New Year. What's everyone thoughts on Dry January? Or...even worse, damp January. (grossest name ever).
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Duration:00:13:38
It's me, hi. I'm the bonus (episode) it's me.
11/6/2023
S3 Bonus episode where Christen finally checks the gmail and answers listener questions.
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Duration:00:18:43
Chris Riesbeck- Barrell Craft Spirits
10/10/2023
Chris Riesbeck is the Chief Commercial Officer of Barrell Craft Spirits. A spirits industry veteran of 15 years, he also served as the Vice President of Sales for Westland Distillery and has a long history in the supply and distribution world.
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Duration:00:52:23
Alejandro Russo- Candela Mamajuana
9/11/2023
Alejandro Russo is the founder and CEO of Candela Mamajuana, a rum based beverage from the Dominican Republic with deep historical and cultural significance Candela means "on fire" in Spanish slang, and so far it's a fitting name for a brand that is starting to make its way into the mainstream.
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Duration:00:54:29
Sother Teague
8/21/2023
Professional barman, author and cocktail expert, Sother Teague helms many businesses in NYC including working as the Beverage Director at famed NYC bitters bar, Amor y Amargo. Having spent his entire life in culinary and hospitality, he is a mentor and teacher to many and even cohosts an industry podcast called Speakeasy on Heritage Radio Network.
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Duration:01:02:02
Tim Cabral- Restaurant and Bar Owner/Operator
7/17/2023
Tim Cabral has been working in service/hospitality since he was 12 years old. We chat about his background in the business and how he is currently juggling many different projects.
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Duration:00:59:54
Victoria Eady Butler- Uncle Nearest Distillery
7/7/2023
Victoria Eady Butler- Nathan "Uncle Nearest" Green's great great granddaughter, is Uncle Nearest Distillery's master blender and the first person to win Master Blender of the Year two consecutive years in a row.
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Duration:00:34:28
Jill Cockson
5/23/2023
Jill Cockson is an veteran of the bar and hospitality community with over 25 years lived experience and has owned and operated several successful bar concepts.
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Duration:00:40:08
Season 3 Mid Season Update
5/22/2023
Stop procrastinating and subscribe to our show already. Did you give us a review?
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Duration:00:01:10
Sally Johnson Blum- Winemaker
5/15/2023
Sally Johnson Blum is an award winning winemaker in Napa, currently working at Tamber Bey Vineyards and previously at Pride Mountain and Robert Mondavi Winery.
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Duration:00:27:54
Brandon O'Daniel- Distiller
5/1/2023
Master Distiller, Brandon O'Daniel joins the pod to talk about Copper and Kings Distillery, his career path from winemaking and why we all should be drinking more Brandy.
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Duration:00:36:43
Lois Cho, CHO Wines
4/24/2023
Lois Cho is the co-founder and CEO of CHO Wines, a boutique winery based in Oregon. Christen and Lois chat about how her and her winemaker husband, Dave Cho, got their starts in the wine industry and how they built their business from scratch during the pandemic.
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Duration:00:42:41
Rob Campbell- Winemaker
4/17/2023
Rob Campbell is the winemaker and founder of Meyye Wines and a descendant of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo indigenous tribes. We discuss his 30+ years working in the wine business and how his wine project is connecting his heritage and culture to the modern wine drinkers.
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Duration:00:40:47
Devin Reed
4/3/2023
Devin Reed is a LA-based sommelier with one of the coolest wine jobs, period. Dev and Christen discuss the ever evolving nerd-dom that is the wine world and how he got his start in the biz.
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Duration:00:39:49
Dale DeGroff
3/27/2023
For the bar community, Dale DeGroff is a household name. Often viewed as one of the most influential voices in reviving craft cocktails as we know them today, he has touched so many parts of modern beverage culture, that it would be hard not to find his influence in every cocktail focused bar program around the world. We chat about his humble beginnings in New York, his influences and his hopes for the bar community going forward.
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Duration:00:41:24
Season 3 Trailer
3/17/2023
New episodes coming very soon!
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Duration:00:02:00