The Philip Duff Show

The King is here! Me and Dale de Groff taste the delicious new De Groff Amaro and De Groff Aperitivo he's made with Ted Breaux (who won't let Dale say what's in them), we talk about history's first-ever cocktail party with "gin and bitters", our biggest ever failings as bartenders and managers, why Freddy Heineken bought several former horse stables around Amsterdam, the importance of yumminess in cocktails, and the story of how Dale once had a fabulously wealthy six-foot-six regular who had to go home at 7pm each evening because he was already hammered by then. And lots more. Enjoy!Dale on Twitter and Instagram: @kingcocktlBuy Dale's amaro and aperitivo: https://midwaywines.com/shop?ch-query=degroff De Groff Spirits website: https://degroffspirits.comBuy "The New Craft of the Cocktail" : https://www.amazon.com/New-Craft-Cocktail-Everything-Mixologist/dp/1984823574/ref=sr_1_1?crid=JQ3KGVDRATX1&keywords=dale+de+groff&qid=1683643740&sprefix=dale+de+groff%2Caps%2C61&sr=8-1Get in touch with Duff!Podcast business enquiries: consulting@liquidsolutions.org (PR friends: we’re only interested in having your client on if they can talk for a couple of hours about OTHER things besides their prepared speaking points or their new thing, whatever that is. They need to be able to hang. Oh, plus we don't edit, and we won’t supply prepared or sample questions, or listener or “reach” stats, either, and no, you can't sit in on the interview or Zoom.) Retain Philip’s consulting firm, Liquid Solutions, specialised in on-trade engagement & education, liquor brand creation and repositioning: philip@liquidsolutions.orgPhilip on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipsduff/ Philip on Facebook: Philip Duff Philip on X/Twitter: Philip Duff (@philipduff) / Twitter Philip on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Old Duff Genever on Instagram: Old Duff Genever (@oldduffgenever) • Instagram photos and videos Old Duff Genever on Facebook: facebook.com Old Duff Genever on X/Twitter: ...

Whoa this was great!Who knew Erick was a journalism graduate?I always assumed bartending for him was a work placement after jail (;-)!He made his bones in mega legit Cali bars like Rickhouse in San Francisco (where I met him) then relocated to San Diego and opened his own places, Polite Provisions (T-shirt slogan: "Polite As Fuck") and the award-winning Raised by Wolves. Along the way he worked as a gin ambassador, started (and continues - you should subscribe) the Bartender at Large podcast, as well as co-founding the Bartenders Weekend event in SD and making (check it out on YouTube) the Bartender At Large movie!This was a whole lot of fun and, full disclosure, towards the end I was a little hammered, because I had to rush home to tape this after dropping by (my old head bartender at door 74 in Amsterdam) Timo's guest shift in Bar Goto. Just like the Danny Ronen episode inadvertently became a Quentin Tarantino episode, this one had a lot of talk about journalism, media, the Mean World Syndrome, as well as pondering if rich people are real people too, why Erick's next bar may well be in CDMX, the joy of Empirical, and Erick's tale of some chap who connected Chat GPT to his Tinder, which I guess is the modern remake of Cyrano de Bergerac. Enjoy!Erick: IG @hungrybartender, @raisedbywolvesspirits , @bartendersweekend Twitter: @hungrybartenderYouTube: Bartender At LargePodcast: Bartender at LargeGet in touch with Duff!Podcast business enquiries: consulting@liquidsolutions.org (PR friends: we’re only interested in having your client on if they can talk for a couple of hours about OTHER things besides their prepared speaking points or their new thing, whatever that is. They need to be able to hang. Oh, plus we don't edit, and we won’t supply prepared or sample questions, or listener or “reach” stats, either, and no, you can't sit in on the interview or Zoom.) Retain Philip’s consulting firm, Liquid Solutions, specialised in on-trade engagement & education, liquor brand creation and repositioning: philip@liquidsolutions.orgPhilip on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipsduff/ Philip on Facebook: Philip Duff Philip on X/Twitter: Philip Duff (@philipduff) / Twitter Philip on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Old Duff Genever on Instagram: Old Duff Genever (@oldduffgenever) • Instagram photos and videos Old Duff Genever on Facebook: facebook.com Old Duff Genever on X/Twitter: ...

Agave all day! (Although we were drinking rye whiskey, as it goes). Had a blast sitting down with the one and only Salvador "Chava" Periban, a Michoacan friend, combustion engineer, former head distiller, agave devotee (& expert), Mexico City resident and another of my fellow judges at the ADI awards. You may have heard him on The Speakeasy or Agave Road Trip podcasts but trust me, it's a lot more fun to sit down with the man himself, not least because he ALWAYS has some fine-ass mezcal on his person, somewhere!Catch Chava on IG at @chavaperiban and www.salvadorperiban.com Get in touch with Duff!Podcast business enquiries: consulting@liquidsolutions.org (PR friends: we’re only interested in having your client on if they can talk for a couple of hours about OTHER things besides their prepared speaking points or their new thing, whatever that is. They need to be able to hang. Oh, plus we don't edit, and we won’t supply prepared or sample questions, or listener or “reach” stats, either, and no, you can't sit in on the interview or Zoom.) Retain Philip’s consulting firm, Liquid Solutions, specialised in on-trade engagement & education, liquor brand creation and repositioning: philip@liquidsolutions.orgPhilip on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipsduff/ Philip on Facebook: Philip Duff Philip on X/Twitter: Philip Duff (@philipduff) / Twitter Philip on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Old Duff Genever on Instagram: Old Duff Genever (@oldduffgenever) • Instagram photos and videos Old Duff Genever on Facebook: facebook.com Old Duff Genever on X/Twitter: ...

Managed to carve out some time old friend, bar supremo, longtime West Coaster, and dude who sends out thousands of cocktail kits every month with Shaker & Spoon,  Danny Ronen! We were both sequestered in a hotel in ritzy Tiburon, California, judging  the American Distilling Institute's Craft Spirits Awards, so we took a break from judging spirits to......sit down and drink some and fix the world. Enjoy!Danny is @dronen on IG, and his firms @shakerandspoon and www.dannyronen.com Get in touch with Duff!Podcast business enquiries: consulting@liquidsolutions.org (PR friends: we’re only interested in having your client on if they can talk for a couple of hours about OTHER things besides their prepared speaking points or their new thing, whatever that is. They need to be able to hang. Oh, plus we don't edit, and we won’t supply prepared or sample questions, or listener or “reach” stats, either, and no, you can't sit in on the interview or Zoom.) Retain Philip’s consulting firm, Liquid Solutions, specialised in on-trade engagement & education, liquor brand creation and repositioning: philip@liquidsolutions.orgPhilip on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipsduff/ Philip on Facebook: Philip Duff Philip on X/Twitter: Philip Duff (@philipduff) / Twitter Philip on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Old Duff Genever on Instagram: Old Duff Genever (@oldduffgenever) • Instagram photos and videos Old Duff Genever on Facebook: facebook.com Old Duff Genever on X/Twitter: ...

Well THIS really was a Springsteen-in-his-prime length episode, a whopping three-and-a-half hour opus chez Sachs where we drink a selection of cocktails from the stunning new Wanderlust menu at London's Pine Bar in the Biltmore Mayfair hotel, confirm that both Khoosh and Dr. Hostetter's bitters  taste delish with champagne or genever, drink some genever that - shock! horror! - isn't Old Duff but is pretty damn good, and in between talk about everything from Percocet-and-whisky boilermakers, Bud Light and an unnamed but sure to be wildly overpriced rye whiskey thats about to come out. Enjoy!Tony Sachs: @retromannycPine Bar at the Biltmore Mayfair: @thepinebarKhoosh Bitters: @khooshbitterDr. Hostetters Bitters: @drhostettersPhoenyx Spirits: @phoenyxspiritsGet in touch with Duff!Podcast business enquiries: consulting@liquidsolutions.org (PR friends: we’re only interested in having your client on if they can talk for a couple of hours about OTHER things besides their prepared speaking points or their new thing, whatever that is. They need to be able to hang. Oh, plus we don't edit, and we won’t supply prepared or sample questions, or listener or “reach” stats, either, and no, you can't sit in on the interview or Zoom.) Retain Philip’s consulting firm, Liquid Solutions, specialised in on-trade engagement & education, liquor brand creation and repositioning: philip@liquidsolutions.orgPhilip on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipsduff/ Philip on Facebook: Philip Duff Philip on X/Twitter: Philip Duff (@philipduff) / Twitter Philip on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Old Duff Genever on Instagram: Old Duff Genever (@oldduffgenever) • Instagram photos and videos Old Duff Genever on Facebook: facebook.com Old Duff Genever on X/Twitter: ...

This is a MAMMOTH episode with the legendary co-founder of the Employees Only bar empire, co-founder of The 86 Co (famous for Ford's Gin and recently acquired by Brown Forman), author of "Speakeasy" and certified good time, Dushan Zaric, a friend of mine for going on twenty years now. It's so hilariously amateurishly edited (we did two recording sessions) that after about an hour it almost sounds like we've finished, but we didn't; we went on to do another 2.5 hours or so after that! It's everything you ever wanted to hear: teaching young folk nowadays, opening a bar without sewage because you're broke, AI, Dr. Hostetter's bitters, Khoosh bitters, a toast to Trans Day of Visibility (we recorded it on that day, y'see), Dushan officiating at my wedding, a couple of brand-new genever cocktails, and much, much, much more. Dushan's great new YouTube show is 4am Chicken Soup, and his IG handle is @4amchickensoup. EO is @employeesonlyny and Macao Trading Company (where we recorded the second half) is @macaonyc Khoosh bitters is @khooshbitter on IG, and Dr. Hostetter's is @drhostetters, both from the fine chaps at @phoenyxspiritsGet in touch with Duff!Podcast business enquiries: consulting@liquidsolutions.org (PR friends: we’re only interested in having your client on if they can talk for a couple of hours about OTHER things besides their prepared speaking points or their new thing, whatever that is. They need to be able to hang. Oh, plus we don't edit, and we won’t supply prepared or sample questions, or listener or “reach” stats, either, and no, you can't sit in on the interview or Zoom.) Retain Philip’s consulting firm, Liquid Solutions, specialised in on-trade engagement & education, liquor brand creation and repositioning: philip@liquidsolutions.orgPhilip on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipsduff/ Philip on Facebook: Philip Duff Philip on X/Twitter: Philip Duff (@philipduff) / Twitter Philip on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Old Duff Genever on Instagram: Old Duff Genever (@oldduffgenever) • Instagram photos and videos Old Duff Genever on Facebook: facebook.com Old Duff Genever on X/Twitter: ...

What a few weeks! Time to talk our way through what's been happening. Shitty Serena Williams ad for Superbowl for Remy Martin? Check!Controversy about the technical files for Irish single pot still whiskey? cHECK!Jack Daniels? Ago Perrone? Salvatore Calabrese? Simon Ford? Matsuhisa Nobu? Bob de Niro? Check, check, check, check?. Wild times  - ENJOY THE LISTEN! Get in touch with Duff!Podcast business enquiries: consulting@liquidsolutions.org (PR friends: we’re only interested in having your client on if they can talk for a couple of hours about OTHER things besides their prepared speaking points or their new thing, whatever that is. They need to be able to hang. Oh, plus we don't edit, and we won’t supply prepared or sample questions, or listener or “reach” stats, either, and no, you can't sit in on the interview or Zoom.) Retain Philip’s consulting firm, Liquid Solutions, specialised in on-trade engagement & education, liquor brand creation and repositioning: philip@liquidsolutions.orgPhilip on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipsduff/ Philip on Facebook: Philip Duff Philip on X/Twitter: Philip Duff (@philipduff) / Twitter Philip on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Old Duff Genever on Instagram: Old Duff Genever (@oldduffgenever) • Instagram photos and videos Old Duff Genever on Facebook: facebook.com Old Duff Genever on X/Twitter: ...

 Here I cover the history and production techniques of sake and shochu at a 101 (basic) level, and then Kenta Goto of the acclaimed New York bars Bar Goto and Bar Goto Niban takes over and unveils a whole new template for creating cocktails using sake or shochu as the base, as opposed to whisky or gin. We tried to make this seminar podcast-friendly but the visuals mean that watching this with video on The Philip Duff Show on YouTube is probably better. This started life as a talk we both gave on on Instagram during COVID, then evolved into a standing-room-only seminar at Bar Convent Berlin in 2022, so we thought we'd put it out for anyone who wasn't able to make it last year. Kenta's one of the best operators around, both when it comes to cocktails and to running bars, and his new template for cocktails with shochu and sake is ground-breaking. Kenta is on Instagram as @kenta_san , and his bars are @bargoto_nyc in Manhattan and @bargoto_niban in Brooklyn. Get in touch with Duff!Podcast business enquiries: consulting@liquidsolutions.org (PR friends: we’re only interested in having your client on if they can talk for a couple of hours about OTHER things besides their prepared speaking points or their new thing, whatever that is. They need to be able to hang. Oh, plus we don't edit, and we won’t supply prepared or sample questions, or listener or “reach” stats, either, and no, you can't sit in on the interview or Zoom.) Retain Philip’s consulting firm, Liquid Solutions, specialised in on-trade engagement & education, liquor brand creation and repositioning: philip@liquidsolutions.orgPhilip on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipsduff/ Philip on Facebook: Philip Duff Philip on X/Twitter: Philip Duff (@philipduff) / Twitter Philip on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Old Duff Genever on Instagram: Old Duff Genever (@oldduffgenever) • Instagram photos and videos Old Duff Genever on Facebook: facebook.com Old Duff Genever on X/Twitter: ...

David Gluckman is a drinks industry legend, and he  reeaalllly doesn't like the concept of the new non-alcoholic "spirits".This from the man who invented Baileys Irish cream liqueur, Tanqueray TEN gin, The Singleton whisky, and many more liquor brands. (You can read, watch and listen all about it, with links to old ads, videos and music jingles, by buying his book "That Will Never Sell" here: https://tinyurl.com/bdzx2anc, and read his views on non-alc "spirits" for free both here: https://tinyurl.com/ysrnyfpd and here: https://tinyurl.com/33sh9ux9) So, I thought I'd have a chat with him about this barely-eight-years-old category that's forecast to sell $10bn per year within a few years: the good, the bad, the ugly and what David would do to upgrade non-alcoholic drinking options without taking the mickey. Have a listen, this was fun!  Best bet of catching David is on LinkedIn. Get in touch with Duff!Podcast business enquiries: consulting@liquidsolutions.org (PR friends: we’re only interested in having your client on if they can talk for a couple of hours about OTHER things besides their prepared speaking points or their new thing, whatever that is. They need to be able to hang. Oh, plus we don't edit, and we won’t supply prepared or sample questions, or listener or “reach” stats, either, and no, you can't sit in on the interview or Zoom.) Retain Philip’s consulting firm, Liquid Solutions, specialised in on-trade engagement & education, liquor brand creation and repositioning: philip@liquidsolutions.orgPhilip on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipsduff/ Philip on Facebook: Philip Duff Philip on X/Twitter: Philip Duff (@philipduff) / Twitter Philip on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Old Duff Genever on Instagram: Old Duff Genever (@oldduffgenever) • Instagram photos and videos Old Duff Genever on Facebook: facebook.com Old Duff Genever on X/Twitter: ...

Back with a bang after a few months off, I thought I'd do a roundup of all the news of 2022: world news, bar & cocktail news, spirits business news and what I was up to myself. Damn thing ran to almost two hours and I still forgot to mention that Netflix show "Drink Masters". Get yourself a large beverage to hand, make sure you're sitting comfortably and hit play...Get in touch with Duff!Podcast business enquiries: consulting@liquidsolutions.org (PR friends: we’re only interested in having your client on if they can talk for a couple of hours about OTHER things besides their prepared speaking points or their new thing, whatever that is. They need to be able to hang. Oh, plus we don't edit, and we won’t supply prepared or sample questions, or listener or “reach” stats, either, and no, you can't sit in on the interview or Zoom.) Retain Philip’s consulting firm, Liquid Solutions, specialised in on-trade engagement & education, liquor brand creation and repositioning: philip@liquidsolutions.orgPhilip on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipsduff/ Philip on Facebook: Philip Duff Philip on X/Twitter: Philip Duff (@philipduff) / Twitter Philip on LinkedIn: linkedin.com Old Duff Genever on Instagram: Old Duff Genever (@oldduffgenever) • Instagram photos and videos Old Duff Genever on Facebook: facebook.com Old Duff Genever on X/Twitter: ...