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The Modern Bar Cart Podcast

Oct 25, 2024

Eric presents a "soup-to-nuts" crash course on how to crush your next cocktail competition. If you'd like to view this seminar with slides, you can watch it on YouTube.

Some of the topics covered include:

  • How to structure your approach to cocktail competitions so that they can help to advance your career goals
  • An...


Sep 12, 2024

In this LIVE Seminar recording, Eric identifies two key strains of B.S. that run through contemporary tasting notes. Then, using a concept he refers to as "locating the 'heart' of a spirit," he explores how to generate tasting notes that say accurate things about flavor while also allowing people to connect with the...


Aug 30, 2023

In this special edition, recorded at the American Distilling Institute's 20th Anniversary Conference and Trade Show, Eric shares his 20th Anniversary Address and Keynote Intro, informally titled, "It's All on Fire."

Then, we jump straight into a delighful panel discussion about the art, business, and philosophy of...


Episode 131 - Part I: Battle of the Bartenders

Jan 16, 2020

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...


Sep 27, 2018

In this episode, we follow a group of mixologists from Northern Virginia through a harrowing, three-round cocktail competition hosted by Catoctin Creek Distilling Co. in Purcellville, VA.

They must create three original cocktails using the Catoctin Creek spirits as a base, while also featuring a secret ingredient that...