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Drinks At Work with Sam Bygrave

Boothby Media

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Frequency: 1 episode/12d. Total Eps: 113

The world of drinks is a big one. Drinks At Work talks to those who have built — or are building — rewarding and creative careers in the drinks industry, from bar owners to spirits marketers, brand ambassadors, distillers, writers and more. Hosted by Sam Bygrave and produced by Boothby Media.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - food
30/09/2025
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Luca Baioni on what makes great bartenders, opening Latteria, and more

Thursday, September 25, 2025 • Duration 27:32

We’re in Adelaide, and a conversation we recorded with bartender, former brand ambassador, and now bar owner, Luca Baioni. Luca is the co-owner of Latteria in Adelaide, a bar and eatery that is now into its second year of trade. Latteria is inspired by Luca and his business partner, Nicola’s experiences growing up in the north of Italy — a latteria there is like a milk bar here, but Adelaide’s Latteria is a grown up and modern interpretation of it. In this conversation, Luca shares insights into his journey in the hospitality industry, the philosophy behind his cocktail menu, and the importance of community engagement in his venue. He discusses the evolution of bartending, the significance of storytelling in cocktails, and the future of cocktail culture in Adelaide.

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What’s it like working in your family’s 140 year old whisky business?

Thursday, September 11, 2025 • Duration 40:47

Sam Bygrave talks to Kirsten Grant Miekle, about her journey within the whisky industry, the importance of family legacy, innovation, and the art of blending. They discuss the creation of the House of Hazelwood, a passion project that reflects their family's history and commitment to quality. The conversation also touches on the balance between tradition and modernity in whisky production, the responsibility of being a custodian of a legacy, and the essence of great hospitality in bars.

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Satan’s Whiskers on traditional bartending skills and classics, with Daniel Waddy and Finn Sugrue

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 • Duration 45:49

Sam Bygrave speaks with Daniel Waddy and Finn Sugrue from Satan's Whiskers in London, your favourite bartender's favourite bartenders' bar.

'We can spot insincerity a mile off,' says award-winning Evan Stroeve

Friday, May 20, 2022 • Duration 29:28

Evan Stroeve is a bartender, the Australian Diageo World Class Bartender of the Year for 2021, a brand owner in Rhubi Mistelle, and a bar consultant, and he’s not yet 30 years old.

I first interviewed Evan in 2017 when he was at Shady Pines Saloon in Sydney, and he since went onto a trio of Australia’s best bars: The Baxter Inn, Bulletin Place, where he was the general manager, and now Re, Matt Whiley’s innovative zero waste bar in Sydney.

We talk about how he has used cocktail competitions like World Class to further his career, whether these comps are indeed necessary to build a career; we dive into how Evan and his business partner Tim Philips Johansson took a house-made ingredient for Bulletin Place and commercialised it for a wider audience Rhubi Mistelle — and a lot more.

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Philip Duff has advice for brand owners, speakers, bartenders, and more

Thursday, May 12, 2022 • Duration 34:26

Philip Duff talks about the importance of being an asshole (at least some of the time), shares his advice on what to do if you’re keen to start a spirits brand, and offers some insight into where he thinks the opportunities are in the drinks industry today.

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James Irvine thinks that “you’ve got to go in with some humility”

Thursday, May 5, 2022 • Duration 37:37

My guest on this episode is James Irvine, he’s the creative director of gin drinks for the Australian craft gin distillery, Four Pillars — it’s a unique role, one that is a brand ambassador role, but which also sees him as the lead for the Four Pillars Lab, the brand’s flagship bar in Surry Hills, where they’re making some very good drinks.

The way I see it, bartenders who build a lasting career tend to be of two types: you have those who love the ops side of the business, and you have those who love the creative side. Neither is better than the other, and you can’t have one without the other — of course you’ll find plenty of overlap between those sides of the business.

James Irvine, as he talks about in this chat, definitely leads more to the creative side, and has managed to build a rewarding and exciting career that way, and he’s got some great advice.

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Bartending helped Dr Anne Brock be Bombay Sapphire’s master distiller

Thursday, April 28, 2022 • Duration 25:36

It’s fair to say that Dr Anne Brock has something of a dream job: she’s the master distiller for Bombay Sapphire, overseeing their Laverstoke distillery and the spirit for all of the Bombay brands. I spoke to Dr Anne while she’s in Melbourne, where she’s launching their latest gin, Bombay Sapphire Premier Cru, and in this conversation we talk about the lessons she learned as a bartender — and how the nature of the day to day work as a distiller is similar to that of a bartender. We talk about how she managed Covid and its potentially career-ending loss of smell, why the human nose still can’t be beaten by science and tech just yet, and what it feels like to see the things you make at work end up in the hands of bartenders around the world.

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Ambassador Nick Miles wants to get to know you, not sell you

Thursday, April 21, 2022 • Duration 31:38

Nick Miles is a Jameson ambassador and the winner of the 2018 brand ambassador of the year award at the Bartender Magazine Bar Awards, for his work as the Australian Sailor Jerry ambassador. A couple of years as the ambassador for beer brand Estrella followed, but in the midst of lockdowns and covid, Nick suffered an accident, breaking his back, being bedridden for months, and needing to learn to walk again.

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Penny Sippe on how she's growing a drinks events business

Thursday, April 14, 2022 • Duration 30:26

Launching a new business is hard, but what is harder is keeping it going and growing.

This week on the podcast we hear from Penny Sippe, the founder of Australian Cocktail Month — an initiative you might know as the first sponsor of this podcast — which is happening this May in 12 cities and 145 bars around Australia.

It’s back for its second year, and was born from two things: one, Penny’s pandemic-induced redundancy and two, her desire to help the bar industry emerge from the pandemic better than ever.

So in this episode, we ask Penny about how she’s built Australian Cocktail Month through the pandemic and its ongoing aftermath; what experiential marketing is when it comes to liquor brands and why she does what she does; and Penny offers some insight into what has allowed her to grow Australian Cocktail Month and expand her offering as she moves into year two and beyond. It's a worthwhile listen if you've ever considered starting a new drink industry business.

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Michael Bascetta on Melbourne Cocktail Festival and building sustainable hospo businesses

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Thursday, March 31, 2022 • Duration 42:31

Michael Bascetta is a Melbourne-based hospitality pro who is the co-owner of the influential Fitzroy wine bar, Bar Liberty; they’ve also got the Italian-inspired Capitano in Carlton and Falco Bakery in Collingwood. Michael also has Worksmith, a co-working space for hospitality, and we talk about how that has evolved, how they very nearly lost it during the pandemic, and why it’s a break-even proposition at best; Michael is also behind the Melbourne Cocktail Festival which kicks off next week on Monday April 4th — you can learn more about that at melbournecocktailfestival.io.

We talk about identifying opportunities and how he makes the decision to go in on them, and why he’s interested more in growing sustainable businesses than in expanding for the sake of creating scale alone.

The through-line here seems to be about solving problems for hospitality businesses, and that old fashioned idea of being of service — it’s a good basis for business, and a strategy that sets things up for the long term.

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