Cocktails & Crime
Cocktails & Crime from Whisky & Ember pairs a well-made drink with a true story from the darker side of history. George walks you through the cocktail recipe and tasting notes, then shares a carefully researched story of crime, scandal, and the people caught up in it. The tone is conversational, the drinks are real, and the line between documented fact and disputed legend stays clear.
Iron Mike Malloy and the Murder Trust
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Michael Malloy is remembered as the man who couldn't be killed. The truth is darker. In the last year of Prohibition, men around a Bronx speakeasy insured the life of a vulnerable regular and tried to turn his open bar tab into a murder weapon.
George traces the documented insurance plot, the taxi attack, the gas murder, the false death certificate and the convictions that followed. He also separates the court-era record from the poison stories...
The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
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In 2012, a routine inventory check at a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec, turned up barrels of water where syrup from the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers Federation's strategic reserve should have been. The Supreme Court of Canada later described a theft of 9,571 barrels worth over eighteen million dollars.
George prepares a Maple Leaf cocktail while tracing the evidence behind Quebec's great maple-syrup theft: how the syrup was swapped for water and moved through a network of intermediaries and...
Mickey Finn: A Chicago Saloon Scandal
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“Slip someone a Mickey” sounds like it should have a neat origin story. The history of the real Mickey Finn is messier.
In 1903, Chicago saloonkeeper Mickey Finn faced accusations that customers were secretly drugged at his Lone Star Saloon. Police seized bottles for testing, city officials revoked the saloon’s liquor licence, and Finn denied the allegations. We follow what contemporary reports establish—and what they leave unanswered—including a separate robbery at the saloon, the distinct 1...
The Green Fairy on Trial
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In August 1905, Jean Lanfray killed his wife, Marie-Louise, and their two young daughters in the Swiss village of Commugny. He had been drinking throughout the day—but two glasses of absinthe became a defining detail in the story that followed.
Over a Necromancer cocktail, George follows the family's story, the murder trial, and the campaign that helped turn absinthe into a national prohibition issue. How did a crime in one household become an argument for banning a...
Cocktails & Crime — Official Trailer
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Welcome to Cocktails & Crime from Whisky & Ember. Each episode pairs a cocktail recipe, instructions, and tasting notes with a carefully researched true story of crime, scandal, and the people caught up in it. Hosted by George Logue. Follow the show so you don’t miss the first full episode.
