The Art of Drinking with Join Jules and Your Favorite Uncle

About The Art of Drinking with Join Jules and Your Favorite Uncle

The CEO of Spritz Season and Tik Tok's top mixologist, Julianna McIntosh (@Join_Jules) teams up with cocktail history buff and unknown home bartending guru, Uncle Brad (@cigarsNvino) to bring you The Art of Drinking: With Join_Jules And Your Favorite Uncle. A podcast for the cocktail enthusiast, aspiring mixologist, or kinda o.k. home bartender with big plans… or no plans. Each week you will learn how to make 2 drinks; a classic made “the right way” from your favorite uncle and a classic with a modern twist thanks to Join Jules. You will know exactly what you need to buy, and we promise there will be no secret or hard-to-make ingredients. We will also give you a few tips, to polish your home bartending game. Finally, because it's not enough to just make a great drink, you also need something interesting to say when you serve that drink. Uncle Brad is going to tell you a story about the history behind the cocktail or ingredients used. So, get ready to sip and enjoy your way into the weekend.

Publisher

Redd Rock Music, LLC

Category

arts · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jul 2022

Latest episode

30 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 142 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 140 Medicine Man: Root Beer Old Fashioned and the Boozy Root Beer Float

   Host Jules and guest Brad explore the history of root beer and craft two unique root beer cocktails, offering insights into cocktail preparation.

2. 

   30 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 139: Lost in Space, Found in a Glass: The Saturn

   Host Brad and guest Jules explore the gin-based Saturn cocktail, its tiki history, and modern bartending techniques in this interview episode.

3. 

   1 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 138: Fat, Flavor, and Fragrance: The Bacon Old Fashioned

   Host Brad "Uncle Brad" Smith and guest Jules explore fat-washed cocktails, including a bacon Old Fashioned and chili crunch tequila, offering insights into mixology techniques.

Inside a recent episode

Ep. 140 Medicine Man: Root Beer Old Fashioned and the Boozy Root Beer Float

Published 30 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And again, they're not thinking craft soda here. They're thinking, how do I keep everybody alive? And they would ferment it? I mean, because you're saying it's lightly fermented. Is that because they were doing this in summer and it was hot? Well, the fermentation would purify, right? And so it would make it safe to drink. So these early small beers are the bridge between medicinal root tea and what we eventually call root beer. So the colonists borrow and remix like plant knowledge that they got from indigenous peoples. And then they slap their own names on the brew, one such being root tea. Here's where we kind of start to slide from medicine to pleasure. […]

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YouTube views

1,030,862

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

62 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

57 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 85 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

97

YouTube

86

Engagement

92

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