Business of Beverages

Updated: 24 Mar 2025 • 154 episodes
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Subscribe to the Mailing List for Updates Sign Up Here! This is a podcast for curious and creative people working in the global beverage industry: from makers to marketers, from brewers to bartenders, from distillers to drinkers. Each episode brings you insights that are relevant to everyone in the beverage industry who wants to build their knowledge about the people, products and plans behind the liquids we love. Host Will Keating and Co-host Pádraig Fox bring all their experience, wit and charm to interviews with guests who are a mix of true subject matter experts, cutting edge innovators and living legends. You can directly support the work we do here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1721337/support For more insights follow us on Twitter or Instagram Or on LinkedIn. Business of Beverages is hosted, edited and independently produced by Will Keating. Pádraig Fox co-hosts in a purely independent capacity.  All studio recording is carried out at Hellfire Studio. All music is courtesy of Roundstone and  ©. 

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24 Mar 2025 • EN

The Quizness of Beverages

Send us a text Our Short silly quiz continues! Which drinks business was bombed in WWII? Whose "Traditional" beer isn"t as traditional as you might think? If you have a suggestion or clues for a drink we should tackle, please click on the link above! Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod

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Send us a text In this episode you"ll learn which beverage books should be next on your reading list, if you have already finished the books we recommended in our first Book Club! Following a very well recieved Book Club episode a while back, we return with teh second chapter in what will definitely become a regular fe

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10 Mar 2025 • EN

The Quizness of Beverages

Send us a text Our Short silly quiz continues! Which beverage brand was founded by a Swiss watchmaker to settle upset stomachs? Which drink was launched in 48 countries in a few short years, only to be withdrawn from all in an even shorter timescale? If you have a suggestion or clues for a drink we should tackle, pleas

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Send us a text In this episode you"ll learn which beverage books should be next on your reading list. In the first of what we hope will be a regular feature, Foxy and Will are joined by the drinks polymath, Judith Boyle, to review and recommend beverage books that we have found inspiring.  Here"s a link to the books di

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Send us a text In this episode you"ll learn how product taste testing went from a status driven lottery (where one mythical taster/ "man from Del Monte" could decide on the quality of a whole batch) to a systematic quality tool for companies to improve their products and people. After a brief break, we return with an i

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Send us a text More quiz fun, this time with a pair of unexpected beverages. Please send us suggestions and/or questions using the link above. Please also subscribe to help us keep the pod ad free. Support the show For more high-lights and low-downs follow @BizBevPod on "X" or LinkedIn Business of Beverages is self-fun

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