The Modern Bar Cart Podcast

During this episode, you’ll hear stories and flavor advice from the five bartenders who competed in this battle to raise money for their respective charities and nonprofits. And then at the end, we’ll give you a quick rundown of everything we’ve learned by observing, organizing, and even emceeing several cocktail competitions in the past few months.

This episode is part 1 of two part story about cocktail competitions. In this edition, we’ll head to Loudoun County, Virginia, where our friends at Catoctin Creek Distilling hosted their second annual Battle of the Bartenders. We hear the origins stories and strategies of six bartenders from Northern Virginia as they prepare to face one another in a cocktail competition featuring three rounds of secret ingredients.

In this Dry January conversation with Modern Bar Cart Co-Founder Ethan Hall, he and Eric discuss what's exciting in the cocktail world in 2020, how Eric is approaching his dry January (and what a "damp January" might look like), and much, much more.

Before our annual holiday break, we share with you some of the highlights of this year in the form of stats, important current events,and  emerging trends. Then, we unveil a few new lightning round questions that we’re going to be working into the mix in 2020.

This is a cross-over episode with Chris Sands of the Uncapped Podcast and Braeden Bumpers of McClintock Distilling. We talk about some great upcoming cocktail competitions and sample some special Innovation Series releases from McClintock.

We speak with glassware expert Victoria Vergason of The Hour in Alexandria, Virginia about a whole bunch of vintage glassware trends and oddities, as well as her new glassware and bar gear collection, "The Modern Home Bar."

We talk with "Minimalist Tiki" author and rum expert Matt Pietrek about his travels through the rum and tiki worlds. In his new book, PIetrek creates a template for scaling your at-home tiki ingredient collection, upping your mixology skillset, and understanding the wide world of rum.

In part two of our natural wine crash course with certified sommelier Joey Fox of Old Westminster Winery, we dig deeper into the world of natural wine, examining topics like biodynamic farming and grape hybrids.

In part one of this fascinating interview with Joey Fox of Old Westminster Winery, we talk about what natural wine is, what natural wine is NOT, and then cover some key terms like Pét-Nat, orange wine, and skin contact.

Episode 123 - Acid Trip (Part II)

We chat with Charlie Berkinshaw of Element [Shrub] about perhaps the two most common acids in the cocktail world: citric and acetic acid. These acids, both in their natural form (citrus and vinegar, respectively) and in their powdered forms, are really fun to manipulate when creating new or innovative spins on classic cocktails.

We chat with Tenth Ward head distiller and absinthe aficionado, Mark Vierthaler about his journey through the distilling world and how he came to love absinthe, a misunderstood and beautiful spirit.

We interview Kevin Peterson of Castalia Cocktails about the role of olfaction in cocktails and how he pairs scents with mixed drinks at his bar and scent shop in Detroit.

In this Bar Cart Foundations episode, we talk all about the concept of wash lines in cocktails and how to achieve a wash line that emphasizes the quality and intentionality of a drink.

To celebrate the launch of our brand new Embitterment Heritage Collection variety packs, we're airing a remastered double feature of two episodes - Japanese Cocktails & Frontier Cocktails.