Business of Beverages
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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.
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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 ©.
Business of Beverages
For Heavan's Sake - Kyoko Nagano on the complexities & contradictions of Japan's divine but troubled drink.
In this episode you'll be treated to an outstanding overview of a category that is both familiar and exotic, Sake.
The most Japanese of all drinks has hit the headlines around the world as growing exports but falling consumption at home have caused issues for brewers and the taxman alike. Luckily Kyoko Nagano of Sake Lovers Inc. was available to help guide Will through the very basics of how Sake is made, what makes it unique, how the traditional brewers are being challenged by changing tastes and demographics but also the new opportunities that are being developed for this most ancient of drinks.
For the Desert Island Drink, John Kelly returns to the pod yet again, giving us a short and sweet view of his go to drink if he was all alone and in need of some comfort.
We also discuss Foxy's first impressions of Kazakhstan (really), his (hazy) memories of drinking Sake in Toyko and Will's coffee confusion.
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Business of Beverages is self-funded and hosted/ edited/produced by Will Keating.
Pádraig Fox co-hosts in a strictly personal capacity.
All opinions are those of the person expressing them at all times.
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