197: Conrad Reddick

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2014

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

At the time of this interview, Conrad Reddick was the Beverage Director and Service Manager at Alinea Restaurant in Chicago.

Also in the episode, Erin Scala traces the cultural ramifications of Prohibition.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, The In the 1850s and 60s, bartender Jerry Thomas traveled the US and he worked a little bit in Chicago.
0:41.0	He's most famous for his saloons in Manhattan, but he did make the
0:45.1	grand tour, and there was a reason he stopped in Chicago to work for a spell. The city
0:50.1	had some great saloons.
0:56.0	What can I get for you guys?
1:01.0	We'll grab a couple of blue blazers.
1:03.0	You got it. Two blue blazes coming right up.
1:07.0	But looming on the horizon was a growing anti-alcohol movement.
1:14.0	Even in his 1862 edition of the bartender's guide,
1:18.0	Jerry Thomas included a chapter on temperance drinks with recipes for lemonade.
1:22.0	When the National Prohibition drinks with recipes for lemonade.
1:23.0	When the National Prohibition Act became legislation,
1:27.0	on January 17, 1920,
1:30.0	Al Capone celebrated his 21st birthday.
1:38.4	He had just relocated from New York to Chicago, and by the time he was 26,
1:40.3	he was in charge of one of the more far-reaching
1:42.4	criminal gangs in Chicago's history.
1:44.0	When he was in Chicago, prohibition ravaged the country.
1:50.0	It shut down most of the US winery infrastructure,
1:52.8	and it led a choice area.
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