Send us a text Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST on YouTube! Subscribe and Watch Here ! 📢I talk🎙️with Jason Vego🎇👏 CEO & Co-Founder of BEVZ, an inventory & delivery 🚚 app 📝 for independent convenience store 🏪 owners!😁🍻 🥐 🍕 🌭 🍿 🌯 🍩 📽 Watch a Quick Video! My main focus at BEVZ is setting and executing the company strategy ✨and vision, 👀 building a strong culture, maintaining consistent and scalable company growth, and recruiting, retaining, and coaching a superstar ✨team. In this...
Feb 08, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Send us a text Intro to Max and Annoucing this is the First FOOD INNOVATION PODCAST!!! I'm super excited to announce this is the first segment for Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST's FOOD INNOVATION! Very exciting so if you are or you know anyone that would be a great fit please be sure and let me know. Check out Max's Spices Perfect for Your Super Bowl Feast! Watch Max's Podcast on YouTube! Catch Max, his mom Pam and I cheer on the Kansas City Chiefs! Find Max on Instagram NOW ON YOUTUBE !!! Thank you...
Feb 01, 2024•2 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Send us a text Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST Subscribe On YouTube! See our Updated KC Chiefs Cheer! Food Innovation Segment Announcement and Intro to Max Help Max, founder and entrepreneur, who happens to have Down syndrome, live an independent life by buying Max's three various spice mixes at www.themaxmix.com !!! From The Max Mix Team "Creating spice rubs as gifts for family and friends turned into a mission to live an independent life. Max is a young man with big passions and dreams who happens ...
Jan 29, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Send us a text 📢I talk🎙️with Karen Hertz 🎇👏 Chief Brewista and Founder at Holidaily Brewing Company ;🍺100% gluten-free and the only certified 🍻 women-owned 👩 brewery in the US, distributed in Colorado, Arizona, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming, Texas, and California. It is currently the largest gluten-free brewery. 🍻 😋 As a two-time cancer survivor, she had to give up many foods but she wasn’t ready to give up beer. 😋 Since nothing in the market hit her tastebuds😋 she opened her brewery 🍺 i...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Send us a text Hello Thirsty Thursdays Community!🎙Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST with Co-Hosts Jessie Ott & Samuel Anderson will have our first Live Happy Hour! 😁 😍 🎇 🍻 🥂 "Orange Wine" or "Amber Wine" We will discuss Orange & Amber Wine with Guests Andrew Nelson , of WarRoom Cellars & K eaton Maddox with Silk Road Wines , and Industry expert our favorite Brian Rosen with InvestBev ! 🤗 👏 Wines Tasted Bonny Doon Vineyard Le Cigare Volant Silk Road Wines tasted Kakheti Amber Sec &am...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Send us a text 📢I talk🎙️with Meagen Anderson who has had a significant and transformative journey, both personally and professionally. Her initiative in founding the AFicioNAdo Certification Program , focusing on Alcohol-Free and Non-Alcoholic (AFNA) beverages, reflects the growing demand for alternatives in the beverage industry. Her involvement with🌿 Hop Forward Consulting , which specializes in sustainable business solutions in brewing, non-alcoholic beer, hops, hemp, and cannabis applicat...
Jan 11, 2024•57 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Send us a text Hello everyone and Happy New Year! In my last podcast release, I spoke about the changes in 2024. The first episode is considered a "Special Weekly Release". I spent time with experts in our industry in a roundtable format. They each chose a question to share with startup brand owners such as the CEOs and brand owners I have interviewed throughout the year. We are all big supporters and want to help see new brands succeed. These panelists are the experts, and each has some great a...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Send us a text Happy Holidays & Find out All the Updates for Thirsty Thursdays in 2024! Thank you all for making 2023 an amazing year! Lots of great updates to look forward to in 2024! Watch on YouTube! @ThirstyThursdays3PMEST NOW ON YOUTUBE !!! Thank you for Listening! Join us on Facebook , Instagram or Twitter ! Host Jessie Ott's Profile on LinkedIn...
Dec 31, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Send us a text Sam Anderson , Jessie Ott , and Heather Ransom discuss the growing importance of the No & Lo space in the beverage industry. We explore the shift in consumer attitudes towards mindful drinking and the rise of initiatives like Dry January . The conversation highlights the need for hospitality venues and big brands to respond to this sea change and provide inclusive options for non-drinkers. We also discuss the potential threat from big soda companies entering the No & Lo ma...
Dec 30, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Send us a text This week, I’m speaking with Mary Collineau & Bryce Wiatrak at Vinalia Wine . This dynamic duo is creating one of the coolest businesses in the industry. I’m hooked. Mary, a financier turned wine lover, and Bryce, a wine writer, met in grad school and decided to take the entrepreneurial road with their love of wines from all corners of the world. They meet the most interesting people at these wineries through existing contacts or travel there themselves, which is amazing. They...
Dec 28, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Send us a text I’m speaking with Todd Bellomy Founder & Brewer at Farthest Star Sake based in Medfield, MA located in the Boston area. Todd has spent a great deal of time in Japan where his love for sake began. He was a sword-making apprentice turned intern at Asahi Shuzo Sake Brewing Company before working for Boston Beer Company for 8 years. He then jumped over to sake again in 2014 and has never looked back. He now owns a warehouse where he brews two types of sake and serves them at the t...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Send us a text I’m speaking🎙️ with Deborah Brenner , Social Entrepreneur - Founder & CEO, Women of the Vine & Spirits and Diverse Powered Brands . Deborah spent 20 years in TV and technology and on a trip to Napa and Sonoma she became enamored with the women winemakers excelling in a male-dominated field. She was so taken by their stories she wrote a book about them called “Women of the Vine: Inside the World of Women Who Make, Taste and Enjoy Wine” , which Wine Spectator named a Critic...
Dec 14, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Send us a text I’m speaking 🎙️ with Andrew Nelson , Managing Partner of WarRoom Cellars . 🍷 We had a blast on this podcast. We talk about big business ideas and strategies but have fun with storytelling, a couple of jokes, and even a funny tall tale. We tasted four amazing, I mean amazing, wines! He is from Ojai, CA and his background is deep in the viticulture side of the business before he started WarRoom Cellars , he worked for Diageo as a Vineyard Manager as well as procurement and sourcin...
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Send us a text I’m speaking with Heather Ransome , Founder and CEO of Zero Proof Go , an online directory and website dedicated to connecting people and venues with nonalcoholic options available to order. Heather is an industry veteran of the restaurant industry and has loved it since starting as a waitress and moved up throughout all levels of the industry including owning her own restaurant and bar of 20 years, which she sold this year. She’s very active in representing restaurant owners and ...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Send us a text I’m speaking 🎙️with Stephanie Houston , President and Co-founder, of Island Getaway Rum , 🥃 which are Island 🏖 Inspired and Texas Made down in Dripping Springs, TX. Stephanie’s family came from the Canary Islands 🏖 by way of Mexico to Texas over 100-plus years ago. She’s the first Latina rum producer in the state of Texas and beyond. We discuss how to ask for help as you embark on any new adventure and in her case how they jump into brand building and distribution as a new bra...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Send us a text This week, I’m speaking 🎙️with Kate Dingwall , a Canadian from Toronto, a very successful freelance writer ✍ who has written for Forbes.com, The Toronto Star, Maxim, Serious Eats, 🍽 Elle, Liquor.com, Wine Enthusiast, 📔 and more. Like all entrepreneurs, Kate started out doing what we all do: hustle, email, call, and partner with those in the industry who see the potential we know is there to offer to many. Kate knew she wanted to learn the business side of our industry, so she r...
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Send us a text 📢I talk🎙️with John King Co-Founder & Owner of The Original Pickle 🥒 Shot . John’s journey started out as an athlete, coach, and fitness guru. He was in the right place at the right time and is now a very successful entrepreneur and beverage innovator. Originally from Pennsylvania, he moved to Ocean City, MD upon graduating college and found his way into the restaurant industry, leading him to this venture. It all started with the popularity of pickle 🥒 shots at Pickle’s Pu...
Nov 09, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Send us a text I’m speaking with Jonathan Neff Co-Founder, Managing Owner and Master Brewer of NEFF Brewing located in Tulsa, OK . Jonathan is a NANO – Technologist and research scientist turned Fermentation expert , in part due to his diagnosis of Celiac Disease *. If you have heard of it or know anyone with it, it’s a very painful way of life if undiagnosed. But given that was back in 2012, not too many gluten-free brews existed then so he turned to home brewing. Jonathan has a big brain for s...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Send us a text This week, I’m speaking 🎙️ with Josh Sapienza , my first food and beverage Tech company! Whoohoo! Look out everybody Thirsty Thursdays @ 3PM EST is branching out! The segment is called Tech Bites ! Josh, has a varied and vast experience of 30-plus years in the restaurant industry. From managing restaurants to finding the perfect location via real estate to all types of consulting from concept to expansion. Josh jumped feet-first into the tech world a few years ago and is leveragi...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Send us a text This week, I’m speaking with Susan Coss , Founder of Mezcalistas and North of the Border Adventures . Mezcalistas started as a blog and has become their media arm and number one resource for info on the world of mezcal and the expanding world of Mexican spirits. North of the Border Adventures is a media, events, and consulting company dedicated to promoting and celebrating the world of Mexican craft spirits and all things Mexican at their “Mexico in a Bottle” events in 6 cities ac...
Oct 19, 2023•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Send us a text Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. This week, I’m speaking 🎙️ Brian Rosen , Chairman of Growth Beverage which owns 4 entities helping innovative brands accelerate through funding, incubation, and points of distribution in 6 states. Brian’s father was tuned into the Chicago market before prohibition and was awarded the first alcoho...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Send us a text Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! 😋 My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast 🎙️ which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture 🌾 🍇 to Glass. 🍷🍻 🍸 This week, I’m speaking with Ben Berman , Co-Founder and CEO of Tomorrow Farms . Ben, born and raised in Portland, Maine, has always been a food 🥘entrepreneur. In middle school, 🎒 he convinced his high school to pay him $2,500 a year to recruit chefs to cook meals once a mon...
Oct 05, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Send us a text This week, I’m speaking with Kelley Jones Principal of Kelley Jones Hospitality , which focuses on F&B operations for on-premise venues, and President and CEO of Hospitality Alliance , a hospitality management, development, and consulting firm for the on-premise world from start to finish. He started out at Pussers Rum and helped grow and open several locations which was the precursor to his career in the restaurant business. He had just opened his 106th restaurant at our reco...
Sep 28, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Send us a text Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST ! My name is Jessie Ott , the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. This week, I’m speaking with Pável Martínez , Sommelier 🍷 at Hotel La Casa de la Playa by Grupo Xcaret in Playa del Carmen. Pável has been in the restaurant 🍽️ business his whole career starting out as a Restaurant Supervisor at Rosewood Hotels & Resorts in Riveria Maya. Here he met his me...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Send us a text Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST Now on YouTube!📽 Subscribe and Watch Here !😁💃 📢I talk🎙️with Nicolas Guillant , a Frenchman who spent his first 5 years in Cameroon, Africa, and grew up in Paris, France. I met Nicolas working together at Remy Cointreau , my first job in the beverage industry and his second. 🍷 🎇 🎉 ✨ 👏😋 🥂 😁 This week, I’m speaking with , a After graduating with his MBA he was hired by Seagram’s to assess the value of their champagne brands which included Mumm a...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Send us a text Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott , the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. This week, I’m speaking with Chris Scott of ThirtyFifty for part two of our podcast. We get into AI, and deep dive into being a student of WSET exams as well as how to become an Approved Program Provider to teach the Wine & Spirit Education Trust . (WSET) level classes🍷 We also discuss the l...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Send us a text Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott , the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. This week, I’m speaking with Chris Scott, Co-Owner of ThirtyFifty with his wife Jane Scott . They started their wine 🍷venture in 2002 in London starting with wine tastings 😋 which grew into corporate events. By 2013, they became an Approved Program Provider for the Wine & Spirit Education T...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Send us a text Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. This week, I’m speaking with John Walker and Bill Shufelt with Athletic Brewing. Bill, who was living a busy life within the finance sector, who also loved working out became tired of drinking alcohol with all the after affects that come along with it. So, in 2014 he started asking questions as to...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Send us a text Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott, the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. I’m speaking with Claire Warner , Tales of the Cocktails Foundation , M ember Board of Directors , and co-founder of Seedlip’s sister company, Æcorn, non-alcoholic aperitifs based on Sussex wine grapes and bitter botanicals. Yes, you guessed it. The ingredients do include bitterness from acorns. B...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Send us a text Welcome to Thirsty Thursdays @3PM EST! My name is Jessie Ott , the Host of this Podcast which is all about Beverage Innovation . I talk with Innovation Pioneers from Agriculture to Glass. This week, I’m speaking with John Glaser, founder and whiskymaker of Compass Box Scotch Whisky . He's a Midwesterner and a Scotch Whisky innovator, who originally wanted a career in wine. He started out in retail and worked a harvest season in France before moving on to get his MBA instead of UC ...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 31
