Imbibe features the best of today’s cocktails and cocktail bars, but our deep connection to cocktail history goes back to our first issue in 2006. For this episode, we’re joined by three writers and cocktail historians who’ve each served as regular Imbibe columnists over the years: our current columnist Wayne Curtis, and his predecessors Ted Haigh (Dr. Cocktail), and David Wondrich.

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Ted Breaux is a research chemist and absinthe producer who in 2007 successfully challenged the U.S. ban on absinthe, reintroducing it to American drinkers for the first time in almost a century. For this episode, Breaux joins us to explore why absinthe was banned in the first place, and to explain how he successfully challenged the ban and how absinthe’s fortunes have changed in the years since.

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François Monti is a Madrid-based author and journalist, and a regular contributor to Imbibe. For this episode, we join François for a drink at the Madrid cocktail bar Momus to talk about the state of the Spanish cocktail, great bars in Barcelona and Madrid, and some of the special aspects of Spanish drinking culture.

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Yoko Kumano and Kayoko Akabori have been introducing guests to sake, shochu, and other Japanese beverages for many years now at their Oakland, California bottle shop and bar, Umami Mart. (We shared an in-depth history of Umami Mart in 2024.) This spring, the duo are introducing their new book, Everyday Sake: The Go-To Guide for Choosing, Pairing & Serving, and they join us to talk about the world of sake and how they’re helping guests and readers with their own sake explorations.

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For this episode, we talk with Seelbach’s founder Blake Riber about his journey from bourbon enthusiast and blogger to building an online ecommerce site specializing in spirits from craft distillers and other small producers.

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Tequila is Mexico’s signature spirit, and the focus of our March/April 2026 issue. To better understand tequila, it’s valuable to hear from the people who spend their lives and careers working with the spirit. For this episode, we talk with producers including Guillermo Erickson Sauza (Tequila Fortaleza), Salvador “Chava” Rosales Trejo (Tequila Cascahuin), Carlos Camarena (Tequila Ocho), Tony Salles (Tequila El Tequileño), Sergio Mendoza (Tequila Don Fulano), Ana Maria Romero (Mijenta Tequila), and Jenny Camarena (El Tesoro Tequila), along with agave bar owner John Douglass (Pretty Decent).

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Our March/April 2026 issue is out, and it’s filled with a celebration and exploration of Mexico’s signature spirit, tequila. David Suro Piñera opened his Philadelphia restaurant, Tequilas, in 1986, and since that time he’s become one of the country’s more notable supporters of the spirit. His book, Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals (co-authored with Gary Paul Nabhan), shares some of the promises and challenges facing tequila and other agave spirits; his company, Siembra Spirits, imports tequilas from some of Mexico’s best producers; and the non-profit he founded, the Tequila Interchange Project, continues to work to protect tequila and its culture. For this episode, we talk with Suro Piñera about his own love of tequila and how our understanding of the spirit has changed over the years, and about some of the challenges currently facing this immensely popular spirit.

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THC beverages weren’t even an afterthought when Imbibe first debuted in 2006, but it’s a massive and rapidly changing part of the beverage world today. For this episode, we talk with Angus Rittenburg, co-founder of Wynk THC seltzers (IG: @drinkwynk) and one of our 2026 Imbibe 75 People to Watch, about the opportunities and challenges facing the THC and CBD beverage category.

Radio Imbibe is the audio home of Imbibe magazine. In each episode, we dive into liquid culture, exploring the people, places, and flavors of the drinkscape through conversations about cocktails, coffee, beer, spirits, and wine. Keep up with us at imbibemagazine.com, and on Instagram, Threads, and Facebook, and if you're not already a subscriber, we'd love to have you join us—click here to subscribe.