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West6

West6

Written by: Grep News | Scotty Clarke
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West 6 is a podcast about cocktails, told as the stories of the people who made them, the bars they were made in, and the unlikely details that history forgot. Our show is for engaged home bartenders, beverage industry professionals, and anyone who would rather hear the mixology story behind a drink than be told to try it. Each episode follows one cocktail. The history. The contradiction. The bartender who got the credit and the one who actually invented it. Hosted by Scotty Clarke, a charming rogue and craftsman who treats mixology as obsession. New episodes every week. Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. https://grep.news/podcast/west6© 2026 Tamez Labs. All rights reserved. Art Cooking Economics Food & Wine
Episodes
  • Naked and Famous - the drink that needed three liqueurs to exist

    Naked and Famous - the drink that needed three liqueurs to exist
    May 22 2026
    A bartender at Death and Co in the East Village basically rewired the entire mezcal conversation by taking a Prohibition-era blueprint, swapping every ingredient except the math, and landing on one of the most influential cocktail recipes of the last two decades. The Naked and Famous is mezcal, Aperol, Yellow Chartreuse, fresh lime, three-quarters of an ounce each, no shortcuts, no garnish required, and the balance is so precise that a ten percent variance in any single pour breaks the whole thing. Four ingredients, one architectural decision, and somehow a Manhattan side street accidentally handed the cocktail world a modern classic built on smoke, citrus, and equal parts democracy.
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    13 mins
  • Oaxaca Old Fashioned - the smoky recipe that stopped using whiskey

    Oaxaca Old Fashioned - the smoky recipe that stopped using whiskey
    May 15 2026
    Phil Ward was just a bartender in the East Village in the mid-2000s doing something his customers probably thought was unhinged — pouring mezcal, the smoky, barely-on-American-shelves agave spirit with the worm in the bottle, into a two-hundred-year-old cocktail template. Four ingredients, one rocks glass, and that decision quietly exploded mezcal imports across an entire decade. The Oaxaca Old Fashioned is not just a drink — it's the moment one bartender's instinct accidentally rewired an industry.
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    12 mins
  • Mezcal Margarita - when Oaxaca crashed the margarita party

    Mezcal Margarita - when Oaxaca crashed the margarita party
    May 8 2026
    Mezcal was buried in a pit, slow-roasted over fire for days, and dismissed as rough peasant liquor for centuries before craft bartenders realized it made the Margarita look like it had been holding back this whole time. The smoke in your glass is not flavoring, it is an actual memory of volcanic rock and woodfire bonded to the agave at a molecular level, and the salt rim is not garnish, it is chemistry that makes every sip sharper, cleaner, and more alive. This is the one cocktail where knowing the history of what you are drinking genuinely changes how it tastes.
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    13 mins
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