Welcome to the new and improved Hugging the Bar podcast!

Mix up your favorite cocktail or mocktail, pour your favorite beer, and pull up a stool. We're getting into the ins and outs of the beverage alcohol and hospitality industries. Each month, we'll sit down with a different expert—bar owners, beverage directors, mixologists, brewers, distillers, taproom managers, marketers, journalists, social media consultants, educators, and more—to tackle topics from PR, employee education, consumer education, and drink and ingredient trends, to consumer behavior, DEI efforts, production techniques, and more. These conversations are a fascinating peek behind the curtain for enthusiasts, and for the pros, they're helpful dives into some of the most important, challenging issues for businesses in this industry today. I promise valuable takeaways from these trusted sources, with the aim of helping you survive—and even thrive—in the current climate.