Part of my job is to pick up on trends during my travels, and something I’ve noticed this year is the rising drinks scenes in the most unusual places. The South’s liquor laws are just starting to come around to the modern age, and the distilleries are taking full advantage. Here are the places onContinue reading “Turn to These Unlikely States for What’s New in Booze”
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Atlanta Is in Its Soft Clubbing Era
5 Creative Cocktail Bars in Tokyo
The Alcohol Professor, November 2025: https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/5-creative-cocktail-bars-tokyo
Hop City Krog Street Market teams up with Atlanta street artists for a fun cocktail menu
Atlanta Magazine, November 2025: https://www.atlantamagazine.com/drinks/hop-city-krog-street-market-teams-up-with-atlanta-street-artists-for-a-fun-cocktail-menu/
Is Blue Curaçao the Most Maligned Drink Ingredient?
InsideHook, October 2025: https://www.insidehook.com/spirits/embrace-blue-curacao
Why doesn’t Atlanta have a signature cocktail?
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 2025: https://www.ajc.com/food-and-dining/2025/10/why-doesnt-atlanta-have-a-signature-cocktail/
7 Idaho Distilleries You Should Know
The Alcohol Professor, September 2025: https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/idaho-distilleries
Recipe: Strawberry Martinez
This recipe was inspired by the classic Martinez cocktail, but is pronounced “marr-tehn-ezz” like the city outside Augusta, Georgia. It incorporates some great Southern-made syrups and spirits with strawberry notes, including Murrells Row’s strawberry JamJam, plus some bitterness from the vermouth and bitters. You may be able to find alternatives, but I obviously vouch forContinue reading “Recipe: Strawberry Martinez”
Tennessee is No Longer Just “Jack Country”
InsideHook, August 2025: https://www.insidehook.com/whiskey/lynchburg-tennessee-company-distilling-whiskey
Recipe: Mrs. P’s Tea
This original recipe appeared in my book A Boozy History of Atlanta: People, Places & Drinks that Made a City. Mrs. P’s bar in the Old Fourth Ward was one of the places that held “tea dances” for the LGBTQ+ community and the city’s first drag show. Lady Bunny, a drag queen formerly of Atlanta, hostsContinue reading “Recipe: Mrs. P’s Tea”