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Lush Life
Where can you learn to live life one cocktail at a time? Here on the Lush Life Podcast discover why an old-fashioned is the drink of choice, who is making their own bitters and how ice, or lack there of, is transforming the cocktails you drink. Hosted by your favorite drinking companion, Susan L. Sc...
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How To Find the Spirit of Cincy
Add a splash of bourbon, a hint of hops, and a generous pour of local pride, and you’ve got the perfect backdrop for today’s episode.
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How to Open a Pub in Paris with Hyacinthe Lescoët, Co-Founder of The Cambridge Public House
How does someone from Brittany end up in Britain, only to return to Paris and open—of all things—a pub? Don’t be surprised, though: this pub comes wit...
How to Enjoy Barcelona Hotel Bar Week with Bianca Grisolia, Founder
I’m not the only one who can’t resist a good hotel bar—London’s are bursting at the seams most nights. Now, thanks to our guest today, Barcelona’s ste...
Serving up Season 10 of Lush Life
How can it be that this is my 10th Season? Did all that time really go by?
Yes, next Tuesday, I will bring you the first episode of Season 10 o...
How to Drink Buck & Birch with Tom Chisholm, Co-Founder
Sometimes, you don't realize that all paths have led you to where you end up. Think about it - it could be true for you. It is for our guest - he’s ri...
How to Drink At Archive & Myth with Laurie Howells, Head Bartender
How many cocktail competitions are you doing this year? Our guest has challenged herself to do a number you won’t believe! It’s not as if she has not...
How to Woodford Reserve with Elizabeth McCall, Master Distiller
For someone who is passionate about horses and bourbon there is one position that would be a dream to have and our guest has got it!
When you...
How to Drink at the Stockton Inn with Brian Miller
Have you been to the small hotel with a wishing well and now a fabulous new bar helmed by today’s guest? I’m pretty certain that if Rogers and Hart ha...
How to Drink Mount Gay Rum with Trudiann Branker
Can you feel the heat on your face? This episode we want to transport you right to the sunny island of Barbados. Anyone’s guess which rum we’ll be ex...
How to Prioritise Inclusion with Equal Measures’ Vicky Ilankovan
We are exploring a very important issue and, even if you aren’t in the drinks industry, it’s something you need to address if you have a business - ho...
How to Drink SoGood Sake with Meryl Kennedy & Ken LaGrande
Most people know that sake is made with rice, but did you know that rice might be grown in California?
This is the 250th episode of Lush Life P...
How to Take Venice Cocktail Tours
Yes, we are back with the 9th - how is it possible - season of Lush Life! Where best to begin? Venice, of course!
How is it that there weren’...
How to be Philip Duff
Philip Duff, a true icon in the industry, is on Lush Life. He is a renowned expert on everything drinks related and has a passion for the craft.
How to be the London Boozehound with Sam Gilani
Did it ever occur to you to ask your friendly bartenders where they like to drink? Because you know they know the best places in town. Well, don’t wor...
How To Drink at the Lansdowne Club with David Herbert and Marco Caglià
Who doesn’t want to enjoy a tipple or two in a gorgeous setting? Today, I bring you to one of the most historically important homes in London, which h...
How to Use seasn with Ben Branson
Remember a time when asking for a non-alcoholic beverage meant getting a soda or an apple juice? Well, thanks to the brain behind Seedlip, there are n...
How to Discover More About Sustainability at the Paradiso Sustainability Summit 2024
This March, I was blown away by the creativity of some of the best bars in the world. Not only were they making cocktails, but they were saving the pl...
How to Make Never Say Die Bourbon with Brian Luftman
The butterfly effect is the idea that small things can have non-linear impacts on a complex system. The concept is imagined with a butterfly flapping...
Serving up Season 8½ of Lush Life
I think relaunch is the word of the moment. It is Spring, after all.
Not only will I be relaunching Season 8 of Lush Life, bringing you excitin...
How to Drink House of Suntory Spirits with James Bowker
Few people would have the courage to leave a very secure future in academia for a very uncertain life behind the bar. Our guest did, and he has never...
How to Make Mr Lyan’s Cocktails at Home with Ryan Chetiyawardana
You asked for it, and you got it - all of you kind people who filled out my survey asked for more interviews with more legends. Our guest is the world...
How to Drink Asolo Prosecco
Throughout history, artists and writers have been drawn to the Northern Italian hill town of Asolo; some say it’s because it’s the “city of a hundred...
Serving up Season 8 of Lush Life
School is back, and a new season of Lush Life commences! How exciting!
I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is the Lush Life Po...
How to Drink Select Aperitivo with Rudi Carraro
Just when you thought my season was over, I’m surprising you with a little mid-summer episode dedicated to a place and spirit I love.
If you’ve...
How to Celebrate the World's 50 Best with Mark Sansom
What a great way to start the summer by celebrating with a guest whose job it is to celebrate the best of the best.
Mark Sansom has been Directo...
How to Drink Jensen's Gin with Christian Jensen
Join Christian Jensen, Founder of Jensen’s Gin on a journey to create a gin that harks back to the vintage gins he revered.
Who would have thoug...
How to Drink Outcast Brands with Jason Kidd
Are you ready to be comfortable with discomfort? Our guest was. Now after nearly 25 years in the Guinness and beer space, he’s making a name for hims...
How to Organize London Cocktail Week with Hannah Sharman-Cox & Siobhan Payne
As if organizing the biggest cocktail week in the world isn’t enough, my two guests have created the Michelin guide for the drinks industry!
Mo...
How to Be More Sustainable, According to Some of the Best Bars in the World
What cocktail combines three days of activities, collaborations, guest shifts, and seminars in Barcelona and bar industry legends from some of the mos...
How to Drink Oxbow Rum with Olivia Stewart
How many of us can’t wait to leave home, but then circumstances involving a global pandemic sent us right back to where we began.
Joining on t...
How to Write about Drinks with Millie Milliken
Do you remember Plato’s work, Symposium? Yep, that took place at a drinks party. Philosopher David Hume said that drinking was an antidote to philosop...
How to Master Drinks PR with Alex Chatwin & Alex Irving
You’ve finally done it - opened your bar, launched your spirit, won your first cocktail competition. So now what do you do? Time to call today’s guest...
How to Drink Benriach with Charlotte Coyle
Our guest today introduced me to a job title I had never heard of before - the maltster. She works for one of the very few distilleries that still fl...
How to Drink ISH Spirits with Morten Lee Sørenson
Before our guest launched his first non-alcoholic spirit, his mission was to make it easy to be a mindful drinker. Now six years later, thanks to his...
How to Drink Suyo Pisco with Alex Hildebrandt and Ian Leggett
On February 4th, the world will be celebrating International Pisco Sour Day, and it’s a great cocktail. Our two guests reveal why Pisco should be enjo...
How to Drink Glen Moray Whisky with Iain Allan
Behind the doors of Warehouse 1, up north in Scotland’s Speyside, there is something brewing that we are all going to want to sample. Especially after...
How to Drink Banks Rum with Jim Meehan
Say his name in any bar around the world, and most bartenders will immediately whip out a well-worn copy of his eponymous bible of bartending. Today w...
How to Drink Cordusio with Chris Tanca & Daniela Garcea
When making cocktails, do you ever feel like something’s missing? One of our guests today did, and he made it his mission to fill that void.
Ch...
How to Drink Altamura Vodka with Frank Grillo
Did you ever look at a loaf of bread and see a bottle of vodka waiting to happen? Our guest today did, and now that bread has become the vodka that to...
How to Drink 52 Martinis with Forest Collins
How is it possible that you move to one of the chicest, if not the chicest, cities in the world and not find an even passible martini? Today’s guest...