Dushan Zaric, co-founder of New York’s Employees Only and Macao Trading Co, on (rather candidly) mindful bartending, Jerry Thomas, & the importance of sex to a great bar.

Distiller & founder of the New York Distilling Company, Allen Katz talks to us about provenance, Rock ‘n’ Rye & launching the U.S.’s first Navy Strength & ‘American’ Gins.

This is Duncan McRae, Hendrick’s Gin’s UK Brand Ambassador. He talks to us about the role of heritage & entertainment, the true power of the customer & his dislike of ‘perfect serves.’

The Whistling Shop’s Ryan Chetiyawardana on language, cocktail history, customer education and his rather unsettlingly monikered Kaboom Machine.

Alex Kammerling, the man behind the new eponymous spirit, Kamm & Sons, talks labours-of-love, heritage and finding inspiration in the strangest of places.

Tony Conigliaro (of 69 Colebrooke Row and the new ZTH cocktail bar) talks bespoke bitters and cocktail dioramas, storytelling, the thirst for knowledge and freezing time itself.