Bartender Journey - Cocktails. Spirits. Bartending Culture. Libations For Your Ears.

"Thinking outside the box."  Perhaps an overused phrase, but is an appropriate term for Summer Jane Bell's Seminar:  Shake Outside of the Box: Avant-Garde Cocktails.  Many great ideas were floated at this seminar.  Take a listen as Brian reads through his notes from this wonderful Tales of the Cocktail seminar. Take a listen the podcast with the audio player on this page, or on: •Apple Podcasts *Google Play Music *Stitcher Radio  for a slice of the Tales experience! We also talk to Jeff Quint, founder and owner of of Cedar Ridge Distillery in Iowa, who is making farm to glass spirits.  We caught up with Jeff at Dicky Brennen's Bourbon House in the French Quarter during Tales.  We ate some oysters, sampled some whiskey and chatted about Jeff's Journey from Accountant to Distiller. The American Distilling Institute named Cedar Ridge “Distillery of the Year", for 2017. Plus, we catch up with Hazel Alvarado, as she tells us about the many industry events she has attended in NYC this summer, including the gran