Ready To Drink Podcast
The Ready To Drink Podcast is built for founders, operators and leaders navigating the next era of beverage. These are honest conversations with the people doing the work, building brands that last in a crowded and regulated marketplace.
Hosted by twenty-two year adult beverage industry veteran Nate Fochtman, the show pulls back the curtain on what actually drives growth - distribution strategy, regulatory navigation, sales velocity, and consumer trust.
Ready To Drink Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Post Pandemic Wine Market: Jim Silver on Succession Planning and the Bifurcation of Wine
Wine is bifurcating. Massive scale on one end, tiny profitable producers on the other. The middle is getting pressed out. Jim Silver, author of The Post Pandemic Wine Market and former Chief Sales Officer at Wine Direct Fulfillment, breaks down...
Quick Sips: "I wake up every day and I don't know what to say." | Joe Gerrity, Founder & CEO - Crescent Canna
"I wake up every day and I don't know what to say."That's Joe Gerrity, Founder & CEO of Crescent Canna - talking about a hem...
Trade Spends, Deductions and Drink Entrepreneurship with Komal Devjani, Co-Founder of Revya AI
Komal Devjani, Co-Founder at Revya AI, joins the show to break down the back office problem most CPG and beverage founders never look at until it costs them real money: deductions.Revya builds automated deduction recovery and trade spen...
Quick Sips: She sold out her first trade show in two days. Signed a distributor in twenty. This is how Brewt's started, in a garage in Grand Rapids.
Emily Griffen, Co-Founder and CEO of Brewt's, on how the brand actually started: Bloody Mary mix made at pool parties in LA, a hundred cases bottled in her parents' garage in Grand Rapids, a self-made label, a Vistaprint banner, and a sold-out ...
Building Accord Stone Irish Whiskey From Scratch: Jason Neri on Slow Proofing, Transparency and Surviving the Beverage Alcohol Grind
Jason Neri is the founder of Northern Courage and Accord Stone Irish Whiskey. He spent two decades moving through wine, beer and spirits before launching his own blended Irish whiskey, a brand built on transparency, slow proofing and a refusal ...
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