The Cottonmouth Club Presents: Bars, Bar Culture, Cocktails & Spirits
“The Cottonmouth Club Presents” features Master Bartender and Mixologist Michael J. Neff talking with professionals from around the globe about hospitality and humanity through the lens of bars, bartenders, spirits and cocktails. Interspersed with Neff’s unique viewpoint are conversations and sketches, all created and performed by the amazingly talented staff of The Cottonmouth Club itself.
Episodes
42 episodes
Episode 21: On the Anniversary of the Covid Shutdown & The Risk to Bars of Reopening
Season Two opens on the Anniversary of the Covid-19 shout down of bars all across the world, and coincides with the decision of the Governor of Texas lifting all restrictions and mask mandates, essentially putting the entire public at risk. Thi...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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47:59
Episode 20: “On Dive Bars” with Cocktail Historian & Author Dr. David Wondrich
For those of you who listen to this podcast, you know that we talk a lot about the importance of bars, what they’re for, and what role they play in hosting communities. Few other types of bars show this more starkly than the good ol’ American D...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:13:51
Bartender Masterclass: On Mastery, featuring Modern Bartender ms. franky marshall (Part 2)
Training for Mastery takes years of work and dedication, and after a certain point there is no road map in any industry that helps the novice graduate to the journeyman, and the journeyman transform into the master. In our continuin...
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Season 100
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Episode 9
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33:26
Episode 19: “On Whiskey” with Nicole Austin, Distiller of George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey (Part 2)
In this episode, General Manager & Distiller of George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey Nicole Austin talks with us about the traditions in Tennessee Whiskey, the idea of imbibing a place, and why she doesn’t use the title “Master Distiller.”
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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37:13
Episode 18: “On Whiskey” with Nicole Austin, Distiller of George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey (Part 1)
In this episode, General Manager & Distiller of George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey Nicole Austin talks with us about the traditions in Tennessee Whiskey, the idea of imbibing a place, and why she doesn’t use the title “Master Distiller.”
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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41:18
Bartender Masterclass: On Mastery, featuring Modern Bartender ms. franky marshall (Part 1)
Training for Mastery takes years of work and dedication, and after a certain point there is no road map in any industry that helps the novice graduate to the journeyman, and the journeyman transform into the master. In our continuin...
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Season 100
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Episode 8
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47:57
Episode 17: Tequila, Tahonas & Terroir with Jesse Estes of Tequila Ocho (Part 2)
In this episode, Tequila Ocho Global Brand Ambassador Jesse Estes joins us to talk all about agave spirits, diving specifically into Tequila! This isn’t your average tequila talk—our topics range from the two categories of Tequila and the proce...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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42:39
Bartender Masterclass: On Mastery featuring Master Bartender Yael Vengroff (Part 2)
Training for Mastery takes years of work and dedication, and after a certain point there is no road map in any industry that helps the novice graduate to the journeyman, and the journeyman transform into the master. In our continuin...
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Season 100
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Episode 7
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44:52
Episode 16: Tequila, Tahonas & Terroir with Jesse Estes of Tequila Ocho (Part 1)
In this episode, Tequila Ocho Global Brand Ambassador Jesse Estes joins us to talk all about agave spirits, diving specifically into Tequila! This isn’t your average tequila talk—our topics range from the changing definitions in agave spirits g...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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44:59
Bartender Masterclass: On Mastery featuring Master Bartender Yael Vengroff (Part 1)
Training for Mastery takes years of work and dedication, and after a certain point there is no road map in any industry that helps the novice graduate to the journeyman, and the journeyman transform into the master. In our continuin...
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Season 100
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Episode 6
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39:10
Episode 15: Bars in Crisis—The Case for a Bailout
In this, the second wave of shutdowns across cities due to the shocking rise of Covid-19 cases, the bars in America are bearing an undue burden and forced to make a terrible choice: shut ourselves down and risk our lives, our livelihoods, and t...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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41:53
Episode 14: Cognac, Crus & Cocktails with Modern Bartender & Cognac Educator ms. franky marshall
Cognac is a category of spirit that is steeped in history, and has been associated with quality in so many different ways for hundreds of years. To many modern drinkers, it has also been steeped in mystery, with governing bodies and definitions...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:00:11
Episode 13: Bars Are Like Churches & What We’ve Been Asked to Sacrifice
This is a live-stream podcast, taken from our nightly “Virtual Bar” on Instagram @thecottonmouthclub. The threat of Covid-19 is existential, which is pretty clear, but the risk to the rest of society isn’t always. Here, we have a c...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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28:37
Episode 12: Reopening in a Pandemic (Spoiler Alert: It’s Not Great)
To support what we’re doing, you can leave a contribution in our virtual tip jar on Venmo at theCottonmouthClub-staff, or at www.paypal.me/michaelneff. Thanks so much.The city of Houston is the first major city in the United St...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:00:24
Episode 11: On Tiki Culture with Sly Augustin of Trailer Happiness in London (Part 2)
In Part Two of our conversation with Sly Augustin, we discuss the place his bar, Trailer Happiness in Notting Hill, has in the grand scheme of the Modern Tiki Revival. "Is the bar that sparked the Modern Tiki Revival in the UK allo...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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31:20
Episode 10: Seeing the Future—The Current & Future State of the Bar Industry with Sly Augustin of Trailer Happiness in London (Part 1)
The current Covid-19 pandemic has hit the bar industry particularly hard. Bars are gathering places, and people gathering is the threat that necessitated quarantine and sequester orders all across the United States and around the world. This cr...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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47:19
Episode Nine: Lessons For Bartenders That All Humans Should Remember In These Troubled Times
This episode is one in a series of podcasts from our Live Stream Virtual Bar, in which we discuss how the bar industry is really the business of humanity, how that relates to the current social and economic unrest in America, and how bartenders...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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57:15
Episode Eight: The First Night Back Open—An Audio Diary
Friday, May 22nd was the day the Governor of Texas declared that bars in the state could re-open after the mandated COVID-19 shutdown up to 25% capacity. We at The Cottonmouth Club thought long and hard about whether or not to do that, and ulti...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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40:19
Episode Seven: American Single Malt Whiskey with Westland Distillery’s Chris Riesbeck
The Cottonmouth Club Presents promotes bars, bar culture, cocktails and spirits. In this episode, we do a deep dive into American Single Malt Whiskey with Westland Distillery’s Chris Riesbeck.Our discussion starts with Westland Whiskey,...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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55:37
Bartender Masterclass: On Mastery featuring Master Bartender Toby Maloney (Part 2)
If you would like to leave a virtual tip for the bar staff who helped produce this podcast, you can go to Venmo and contribute to TheCottonmouthClub-Staff. All proceeds go to the staff for food & essentials until we all have some clarit...
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Season 100
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Episode 5
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45:55
Bartender Masterclass: On Mastery featuring Master Bartender Toby Maloney (Part 1)
If you would like to leave a virtual tip for the bar staff who helped produce this podcast, you can go to Venmo and contribute to TheCottonmouthClub-Staff. All proceeds go to the staff for food & essentials until we all have some clarit...
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Season 100
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Episode 4
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49:55
Cowboy Story Time: Gunman’s Bluff Part 10
Cowboy Story Time, in which The Cottonmouth Club’s own Danny Furness reads old western stories in his Texas twang and cowboy voice. Here you’ll find part ten of Gunman’s Bluff, a short story by Max Brand about a gunman who loses the...
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12:56
Episode Six: What Bars Are For, The Future of Bars, and How to Create a “Virtual Bar” That Scratches the Same Itch
What is a bar for? How about a bartender? And now, in the interstitial space between what was and what will be, how can a person be a bartender when we can’t have people in our bars?This episode does a few things: it gives a direct insi...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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56:38
