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Distillate: The Hidden History of Cocktails, Spirits & Drink Culture

Distillate: The Hidden History of Cocktails, Spirits & Drink Culture

著者： Shawn Spitaleri - Drinks History & Narrative Storytelling
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概要

Distillate is a narrative podcast about the history, science, culture, and human stakes behind what people drink. Not technique. Not recipes. The story — the people, the chemistry, the politics, the accidents, and the moments in history where what was in the glass reflected something larger about the world.


Rum built an empire on the back of slavery and molasses waste. Gin brought 18th-century London to its knees before it became a symbol of craft and refinement. Coffee didn't just wake people up — it reorganized how they thought, and built the institutions of the Enlightenment in the process. The history of drinks is the history of transformation: of raw materials, of cultures, of human ambition and catastrophe.


Distillate is hosted by Shawn Spitaleri and produced by The Alchemist's Bar — craft mixology through the lens of alchemy as proto-chemistry. The alchemy framework is the editorial lens here: transformation through material process, observed with precision. Every episode follows a single drink, ingredient, or moment to where it breaks open into something larger.


Every drink has a story. Most of them are stranger than you think.


New episodes every Tuesday.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shawn Spitaleri 世界 社会科学 科学
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  • Gin Lane: The History of Gin, the Gin Craze, and the Birth of the Modern Spirits Industry

    Gin Lane: The History of Gin, the Gin Craze, and the Birth of the Modern Spirits Industry
    2026/05/12

    Gin was said to have been invented by a Dutch physician as a cheap diuretic. Within decades it had crossed the Channel, and by 1743, London was consuming 2.2 gallons of gin per person per year — every man, woman, and child in a city of 600,000.


    This episode traces the history of gin from the Dutch Low Countries to the streets of Georgian London, where it became the first large-scale public health crisis of the industrial age. The city's poorest workers drank it because it was cheaper than food and safer than water. Parliament banned it, taxed it, and restricted it — and none of that worked until they regulated who could sell it.


    William Hogarth published Gin Lane in 1751, showing a mother dropping her baby into a gin vault. Parliament passed the Gin Act the same year. The poverty that caused the crisis didn't go anywhere.


    Full show notes, research sources, and transcript at thealchemistsbar.com.

    Distillate: The Hidden History of Cocktails, Spirits & Drink Culture is a production of The Alchemist's Bar, part of the Obscura Meridian family of projects. New episodes every Tuesday at 6:00 AM Central.


    Full show notes, research sources, and transcript at thealchemistsbar.com.


    Follow The Alchemist's Bar on Instagram @the_alchemists_bar. Subscribe to the Alchemist's Ledger — the monthly newsletter where the research that didn't fit in the episode lives — at thealchemistsbar.com.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    27 分
  • The First Industrial Drink: Rum, Slavery, and the Making of the Atlantic World

    The First Industrial Drink: Rum, Slavery, and the Making of the Atlantic World
    2026/05/05

    Rum was never supposed to exist. It was the garbage of the sugar trade — fermented molasses, the waste product of Caribbean plantations — and it became the fuel of an empire.


    This episode traces the story of how a byproduct of industrial slavery turned into the first drink manufactured at scale, how it moved across the Atlantic as currency and commodity, and what it means that the history of rum and the history of the slave trade are the same history.


    The Royal Navy even issued a daily rum ration to its sailors from 1655. They stopped in 1970.


    Full show notes, research sources, and transcript at thealchemistsbar.com.


    Distillate: The Hidden History of Cocktails, Spirits & Drink Culture is a production of The Alchemist's Bar, part of the Obscura Meridian family of projects. New episodes every Tuesday at 6:00 AM Central.


    Full show notes, research sources, and transcript at thealchemistsbar.com.


    Follow The Alchemist's Bar on Instagram @the_alchemists_bar. Subscribe to the Alchemist's Ledger — the monthly newsletter where the research that didn't fit in the episode lives — at thealchemistsbar.com.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    26 分
  • Distillate - Trailer | The Hidden History of Cocktails, Spirits & Drink Culture

    Distillate - Trailer | The Hidden History of Cocktails, Spirits & Drink Culture
    2026/04/14

    The history, science, and human story behind what's in the glass — and what it reveals about the world that made it. Launching May 5, 2026.

    Distillate: The Hidden History of Cocktails, Spirits & Drink Culture is a production of The Alchemist's Bar, part of the Obscura Meridian family of projects. New episodes every Tuesday at 6:00 AM Central.


    Full show notes, research sources, and transcript at thealchemistsbar.com.


    Follow The Alchemist's Bar on Instagram @the_alchemists_bar. Subscribe to the Alchemist's Ledger — the monthly newsletter where the research that didn't fit in the episode lives — at thealchemistsbar.com.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    2 分
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