Six months into their jobs, our guests knew the corporate world was just not for them. Sisters Joyce and Raissa de Haas were meant for something else.  As students, they didn’t have a taste for pure spirits so they experimented with making their own syrups […]

Some people are born entrepreneurs and our guest today was one of them. Tom Tuke-Hastings has been working for himself since he was a lad at prep school in Oxfordshire. Busy selling all manner of things to his willing peers, from balsa airplanes to collectible […]

Our guest today calls herself a TCK, a Three Culture Kid. Born to an English mother and a Colombian father, but living in France, she absorbed the culture and the languages of all three countries. The ability to speak Spanish, French and English plus her […]

Italicus – Rosolio di Bergamotto would definitely have been Garibaldi’s drink of choice had it been around in the 1860’s. Famous for being the man who unified Italy, Garibaldi would have embraced its desire to represent all of Italy in a bottle. If the divine […]

When you have the opportunity to ride professionally, you take it. That wasn’t the only chance in life our guest took. Rose Unwin is undeniably a risk taker. She knew she wanted to start her own company and she did. What she didn’t realize is […]

There is something magically mysterious about Peter Spanton Drinks. Maybe it’s the Hare-headed Gentleman who appears on every bottle of these bold mixers.  Maybe it’s the fact that my favorite is #13 of only six tonics they produce. Maybe it’s their selection of flavors from […]

Our guest today has the luxury of living in a country where you can study beer making at university. Reinhard Engel was fortunate enough to take his love for lager and make it his life’s work. In the thirty years that he has been the […]

Our journey continues with Tim Etherington-Judge, the founder of Healthy Hospo, the foundation which provides information, advice, and support on mental & physical health for all hospitality professionals, as he is about to enter Sub-Saharan Africa via London. Although every trip continued to be an […]

I truly believe that the day our guest walked into his first job at a school for children with special needs that he was destined to help his fellow man. His career may have taken him around the world, from the beaches of Cornwall to […]

Our next guest truly believed  that every 15 year old wanted to own a bar when he grew up. Years later when Stephan Schulz was presented with the opportunity to run Mata Hari Bar, he couldn’t say no!  It was the dream of a lifetime. […]