Feb 23, 2018
On this week's Bit by a Fox Podcast, we're talking about Shots! Shots! Shots! And the occasional shooter. They're never a good idea....Or are they? Many of us have lots of feelings about shots and shooters and visceral, albeit, patchy memories associated with those little devils. How did the shot even come to be? And...
Feb 16, 2018
This week we’re talking to food and drinks writer, Jason
Horn about his most recent story as drinks contributor for
Playboy magazine. The article, titled "Drinking at the Bottom of
the World", is about the bars, booze and drinking culture at
McMurdo Station, a US-run scientific research station in
Antarctica. His...
Feb 9, 2018
On this week's episode we’re talking about one of the most misunderstood elixirs ever created and consumed - Absinthe! The social lubricant of choice for 19th century bohemians, artists and creatives - said to have aided their creativity and yet, driven them mad. Ted Breaux, scientist, researcher, artisan distiller...
Feb 2, 2018
This week we’re talking about The Dark Ages of Cocktails –
that ill-fated time period between the late 1960s all the way
through the late 1990s. When vodka was king, sour mix was in most
everything, and people happily guzzled garbage drinks named after
body parts and sexual acts. It was sexy and gross and a
lot...