Drinks

Redemption Bar on Lower Broadway welcomes all with NA drinks and singer-songwriter performances. Plus: Get a recipe for McBryde’s alcohol-free Earl Grey Old-Fashioned.

Pumpkin ice cream and pie spice inspire an autumnal spin on the boozy Bushwacker cocktail

Louisville’s Seelbach Hotel honors a literary legend with a dazzling libation

Like sweet tea and a whiskey sour collided in your freezer

A sense of offbeat fun informs Nashville’s Fancypants and its cast of playful drinks—including this perfect summer-to-fall sipper

When only the heavy artillery will do

Like a Southern summer in a glass

Here’s how the citrusy libation became law—and how to mix one for yourself

The Ariston in Nashville shakes up a handful of classics for its own tequila and Aperol–laden cooler

Fortified wine embraces citrus, lemongrass, and a refreshing tea-and-honey syrup for an easy summer drink

A bracing, botanic cocktail inspired by a coastal Louisiana refuge

The South’s favorite summer fruit tastes just as sweet in your glass

A mugged-up drink that’s pure refreshment

Stir up a toast to Marquis de Lafayette

Fresh off the sunny Atlanta patio of Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall

A gameday treat from Atlanta, Georgia

A bourbon party punch from the Holy City

A bourbon-and-coffee cocktail from the newly-opened Saint Leo Lounge in Oxford, Mississippi

A velveteen sipper from New Orleans

This traditional bourbon cocktail offers refreshing simplicity

Louisville’s Garden & Gun Club shares a modern classic with a dash of rosemary

Definitive proof that bourbon and ice belong together

Herbs, peaches, and bourbon come together in this riff on an old-fashioned

A bourbon cocktail built around local ingredients and homemade honey syrup

A very Southern cocktail

An old-fashioned favorite becomes a craft cocktail

Shake up a bourbon classic

Hugh Acheson’s take on a classic game day cocktail

Bourbon or rye? Mike Raymond of Houston’s Cottonmouth Club and Reserve 101 suggests you split the difference with Wild Turkey 101. Here’s why

Toast the Breeders’ Cup Classic with a fall-inspired drink from the Apiary in Lexington, Kentucky

The big-batch solution to making crowd-pleasing cocktails

Bubbly enlivens a refreshing post-Prohibition mix

This blend of brandy, rum, and Madeira really packs a wallop

One bowl, three centuries of New Orleans tradition

Think of this history-steeped blend of sweetened tea and rum as a template— and then tweak it

Hosts in New Orleans serve this festive batch cocktail during parade watch parties

A bourbon party punch from the Holy City

Rick’s Buttermilk Biscuits and Milk Punch

Louisville’s High Horse doesn’t take its cocktails too seriously, as this big-batch spin on the modern classic makes clear

A New Orleans mainstay, milk punch is the South’s answer to eggnog

A Bloody Bull is an even richer spin on a Bloody Mary. Make it batch-style, like one G&G writer’s family, and prepare to bowl over your party guests

A West Indies–inspired punch from the new Tampa EDITION, the city’s first five-star hotel