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Alex Hudson Wants You To Say Please When You Order A Drink. (opens the original)
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I sit down with Alex Hudson of WonderHorse and Neat (ad so many more) to trace a career built on service, discovery, and a distinctly Hamilton point of view. Alex’s style of service is bold, well-intentioned and he almost always has something to try for the first time. Perhaps it’s his own continual exploration of flavour. But he wants you to keep exploring and to drink better, including with better manners. Which is why he’ll make you say please, bringing the humanity back to the centre of ever
The Greatest Jobs In Whisky: Seamus Carroll Runs The Whisky Club (opens the original)
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Do you have one of the greatest jobs in whisky? This new series on the podcast will feature every few weeks, exploring some of the incredible people and unexpected jobs in the diverse whisky industry. And we start with Seamus Carroll runs the world’s biggest whisky club from a desk in Tasmania with a real flex of a cask sample collection behind him. Six years in as GM of The Whisky Club, I interviewed Seamus just before Tasmanian Whisky Week, home turf for the club, and doubles as a happy-birthd
Vince Schiller Wants You To Play More (opens the original)
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I sat down with Vince Schiller for a thoughtful conversation about hospitality, creativity, and the power of community. Sure, Vince’s background in music and a life shaped by creative curiosity might have you believing you’ve got to be born ‘creative’ but we unpack how play is essential, everyone can practice creativity and the benefits for guests and industry. If you care about hospitality, community, or the art of making people feel included, this one is for you. Show Notes In this episode, Vi
What Happens When Lord Of The Rings Meets Whisky? Marketing or Genuine Creativity? (opens the original)
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Is this just a marketing gimmick? Absolutely not. When two Americans wandered into the Pōkeno distillery on their way back from Hobbiton and asked whether Matt Johns wanted to bottle a whisky in Middle-earth, he assumed they weren’t serious. But they absolutely were: a US creative agency holding the world’s only spirits licence for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films — a licence so tightly held that even Hobbiton can’t sell you a bottle of spirits. Eighteen months later, Ringbearer is the off
A Modern Era of Tasmanian Whisky (opens the original)
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It's been over thirty years since Bill Lark talked Canberra into overturning a distilling ban that had stood since the 1830s, and in that time Tasmanian whisky has gone from legal curiosity to the closest thing Australasia has to a regional appellation. And there's a tight knit community of distillers who have built a whisky destination and profile to envy. Robbie Gilligan of Derwent Distillery joins me to talk about how that valley shapes what ends up in the glass — rainwater in the production
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