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Fill your ears with the lowdown on Black History Month in UK hospitality; find out what’s happening at Global Bar Week, plus an exclusive interview with Alex Kratena of London’s Tayer + Elementary about the damaging effects of the UK government’s decision to force through a 10pm curfew for bars, pubs and restaurants.

In the third episode of SipAdvisor by Imbibe, we remember some of the venues that have had to close during the Covid-19 crisis before taking a closer look at the problem of no shows with Abi Dunn, of new campaign No More No Shows, and star chef Tommy Banks who has just reopened his Michelin-starred The Black Swan Oldstead and Roots in York. Finally, we run through some of the best charities and organisations that can support hospitality workers as they do and don't go back to work.

In this special episode, deputy editor Millie Milliken delves into the world of new make spirit.
She talks to Hannah Lanfear of The Mixing Class about education around new make in the UK; runs through a tasting of six new make spirits; discusses Juuri, the unaged rye whiskey from Finland’s Kyrö Distillery Company with CEO Miika Lipiäinen; and chats to Simo Simpson and Chris Tanner of Milroy’s, The Proofing Room and The Vault Soho about using it behind the bar.

The team looks at what re-opening might look like for the UK’s pubs, bars and restaurants – including an interview with on-trade marketing legend Mark McCullough about the 100 Day Playbook, designed to help venues open up again, a muse on PPE for hospitality staff, all accompanied by a glass of English fizz for English Wine Week.

Following the announcement earlier this year that ‘Natural wine’ has been legally recognised in France as Vin méthode nature, our first podcast special is entirely dedicated to the subject.

This episode, hosted by Imbibe news editor Jacopo Mazzeo, features interviews with some of the leading voices of the natural wine universe: Jacques Carroget, Loire Valley winemaker and founder of the Union for the Defense of Natural Wines – the association behind the Vin methode nature certification; Doug Wregg, sales and marketing director at leading wine importer and distributor Les Cave de Pyrene, as well as one of the leading figures in the natural wine universe; and Alice Feiring, American journalist and author, widely known as an advocate for natural wine.