In celebration of the holiday season, we go all in on eggnog, featuring a conversation with a bartender who’s known for his signature eggnog recipe: Jeffrey Morgenthaler of Pacific Standard in Portland, Oregon.

No cocktail in modern history has made an impact quite like the Cosmopolitan. For this episode, we talk with the Cosmo’s creator, Toby Cecchini, about the drink’s origins, its popularity, its many revivals, and tips for making one today.

The Bay Area is in some ways the birthplace of craft beer in America. For this episode, we look at craft beer’s growth and current challenges through a Bay Area lens via a conversation with Dave McLean, co-founder of Admiral Maltings and founder of Magnolia Brewing, San Francisco Beer Week, and the Bay Area Brewers Guild.

Several years ago, Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster Garrett Oliver announced the launch of the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling, to support Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with scholarships for the brewing and distilling industries. For this episode, we talk with Oliver about the foundation’s mission and its progress, and some of the individuals who have benefited from its support.

With the 21st-century proliferation of global bar culture, navigating through the choices has become much more complicated. For this episode, we talk with the co-founders of the Pinnacle Guide, which aims to launch an international evaluation and scoring system for bars in early 2024.

Cocktail bars across the country (and in Canada, Mexico, and France) are celebrating Halloween this year by hosting the Black Lagoon Cocktail Pop-up. For this episode, we talk with Black Lagoon co-founders Erin Hayes and Kelsey Ramage about what to expect from this year’s experience, and how they put together a full menu of Halloween-inspired cocktails.

It’s Negroni Week! For this episode, we talk to veteran Seattle bartender Lindsay Matteson (The Walrus and The Carpenter, Barnacle, Amor y Amargo) about how to explore the wide world of Negroni variations.

Our September/October issue features a guide to making and mastering alcohol-free cocktails. For this episode, we’re joined by veteran bartender and “Mindful Mixology” author Derek Brown to talk about how to create great drinks without using alcohol.

The Mojito isn’t only an essential summer drink, it’s also one of the stars of Cuban cocktail culture. For this episode, we explore every aspect of this classic cocktail with Julio Cabrera, an owner of the award-winning Café La Trova in Miami.

Tales of the Cocktail has been an essential part of the cocktail world for more than two decades. With this year’s event scheduled to start July 23 in New Orleans, we check in with the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation’s CEO and board members to talk about how Tales has evolved over the years, the range of the foundation’s work today, and what to look forward to in New Orleans.

The Mai Tai is one of the most influential (and misunderstood) cocktails of the past century, and a touchstone tropical drink. For this episode, we dig into the Mai Tai’s history and character with drinks historian Jeff “Beachbum” Berry, owner of Latitude 29 in New Orleans.

The Chartreuse Swizzle is a modern classic, and one of the milestone drinks of the cocktail renaissance. We chat with San Francisco bartender Marco Dionysos about the genesis of the Chartreuse Swizzle, how the drink became a global favorite, and how to approach the recipe at a time when Chartreuse may be harder to find.

In our May/June issue, bartender and “Something & Tonic” author Nick Kokonas dives into the world of tonic water, a summer staple, and for this episode, we talk with him about all things tonic related.

In 2013, Imbibe contributing editor Joshua Bernstein published “The Complete Beer Course,” an overview of the beer world that went on to become a best seller. Ten years later, there’s a completely revised, updated, and repackaged version of the book, and Josh joins us to talk about the beer world’s many changes over the past decade and how that’s influenced how we drink and think about beer.

For the past four years, bartenders Caer Maiko (DrinkWell, Austin) and Sharon Yeung (The Walrus and the Carpenter, Seattle) have coordinated the traveling bar event called Daijoubu, which they describe as a “super-Asian cocktail pop-up.” For this episode, we check in with Caer and Sharon during Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month to talk about the origins of Daijoubu, the events and drinks they’ve created over the years, and what Daijoubu means for the Asian American community.

Tropical drinks are an essential part of the cocktail canon, and a new book, “Tropical Standard: Cocktail Techniques & Reinvented Recipes,” promises to bring this category into the modern cocktail age. For this episode, we’re joined by authors Garret Richard and Ben Schaffer to talk about how some of the techniques devised at today’s cutting-edge bars can be used to boost the quality and possibilities of tropical drinks.

Since 2009, writer and educator Camper English has been researching every aspect of making clear and custom ice for use in the bar and home. With his new book, “The Ice Book,” coming out this spring, we catch up with him to talk about his ongoing experiments with everything frozen.

The Manhattan is one of the foundational drinks in the classic cocktail canon, and it continues to influence and inspire bartenders and drinkers today. For this episode, we dig into every aspect of making Manhattans with Toby Maloney, a partner in The Violet Hour in Chicago and co-author of “The Bartender’s Manifesto.”

Rye ruled America’s whiskey glasses throughout the 19th century, then nearly disappeared in the 20th. As our March/April 2023 issue details, rye whiskey is now back in a big way, and this episode digs into some of the promises—and challenges—of making rye, with distillers Nicole Austin, Todd Leopold, and Greg Metze.

Over the past 15 years, the BarSmarts bartender education program has helped thousands of hospitality professionals hone their bartending knowledge. For this episode, we’re joined by Kevin Denton Rex, the director of mixology and education for Pernod Ricard, to talk about the newly revamped BarSmarts program and how it has has evolved over the years.

We wrap up our coverage of the 2023 Imbibe 75 by checking in with Julio “Jules” Gutierrez, founder of the Southern California bar pop-up series, Chuntikis.

We continue our coverage of the 2023 Imbibe 75 by catching up with Christine Wiseman, a veteran LA bartender now working as beverage director for BarLab in Miami.

Our January/February issue features this year’s Imbibe 75, the inspiring people and places that will help shape the way we drink in the year ahead. For this episode, we check in with Jack Beguedou, known online as the Hood Sommelier, about his journey into the whiskey world, and how he’s bringing his West African heritage into bourbon country via his Afrofusion dinners.

Our January/February issue features this year’s Imbibe 75, the inspiring people and places that will help shape the way we drink in the year ahead. For this episode, we catch up with the bartender on the cover of this issue, Josh Ibañez, about his plans as bar manager for acclaimed Seattle rum bar Rumba as it enters its second decade, and about his original cocktail, the Long Story Short, also pictured on the cover.

Brother Cleve was an influential musician, DJ, bartender, and bar owner who helped shape the cocktail culture in Boston and beyond before his untimely death in September. For this episode, we remember Brother Cleve with a few of his friends, Jackson Cannon from Eastern Standard in Boston; Jeff “Beachbum” Berry from Latitude 29 in New Orleans; and Patrick Sullivan, former owner of the B-Side Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts.