Philadelphia Cocktails & Mezcal Tasting at Motto by Hilton

Philadelphia Cocktails & Mezcal Tasting at Motto by Hilton

Booze Travel Time in Philly! I love checking into @MottobyHilton & having an EPIC Hotel Bar to grab drinks and happy hour. What’s even better is when your hotel bar has mezcal tastings AND natural wines as well as tasty MEXICAN FOOD. I am never leaving. Who else loves a good hotel bar? I am […]

Wine for Everyday Delight: German Riesling

Wine for Everyday Delight: German Riesling

Wine Time! I am def drinking more wine at home right now, and this week I am partnering with German Wine USA to showcase the diversity of German Riesling. First off, Riesling can cover the full palate range from dry to sweet, depending on how ripe the grapes are at harvest and the winemaker’s choices […]

Modelo Negra at Gold Lion Barbershop Seattle

Modelo Negra at Gold Lion Barbershop Seattle

The best beer cocktails in Seattle for a limited time this Thursday through Saturday with the Gold Lion Barbershop. We partnered with Modelo Negra to create these cocktails for the ultimate beer event being thrown in Capitol Hill featuring beer-tails by Beautiful Booze. You know you want to try out some of these delicious cocktails. […]

Orchard Coffee Setting a New Standard in Waynesville, NC

Orchard Coffee Setting a New Standard in Waynesville, NC

A new 17-seat coffee shop has opened mere steps away from Main Street, Waynesville, NC; and it’s AWESOME! The former art studio, where Orchard Coffee now resides, has been bought back to life by the Tice family. Cabell, the artist behind the operation, along with his wife and mother, has put a whole lot of […]

Discovering Speakeasies in Mexico

Discovering Speakeasies in Mexico

On a recent excursion throughout Central and Eastern Mexico, Beautiful Booze discovered 2 amazing speakeasies. Craft cocktails in Mexico weren’t very popular until 2011 when a venue in Mexico City really led the way and since then many others have followed, yet the speakeasy trend is only just catching on still and we were lucky […]

Our Top 7 Cocktail Bars in Miami That Aren’t The Broken Shaker

Our Top 7 Cocktail Bars in Miami That Aren’t The Broken Shaker

A few weeks ago we were in Orlando for a 3-day wine and spirits tasting at the WSWA Convention and decided that while in Florida we would take our time and visit some other cool Florida locations. When we told our friends and industry colleagues we were going to Miami, everyone immediately told us to go to […]

My Top 10 Boozy Destinations of 2016

My Top 10 Boozy Destinations of 2016

Mexico City: Mexico City is a hot spot right now and houses some of the best bars and restaurants. I also would consider Mexico City to have some of the best food in the world. I had a lot of practice eating late-night tortas and tacos as even the street food is amazing. This Inside […]

Art of Patron Bottle Art Contest

Art of Patron Bottle Art Contest

Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing my own one-of-a-kind piece of art with a Patron bottle as my entry for the annual Art of Patron contest. If you are a creative person I highly recommend giving it a shot yourself and entering as it is so much fun and amazing to see some […]

Interviewing the Legends of the Legacy

Interviewing the Legends of the Legacy

While attending the Bacardi Legacy Finals in San Francisco Beautiful Booze had the honor of interviewing two influential bodies in the hospitality industry, Dale DeGroff and Enrique Comas. In our article, The Ultimate Cocktail Award is a Legacy Earned. You can find a full rundown of the weekend’s events. Here is an insight into the […]

Seminars, Dynamic Duos and Cocktail Tours

Seminars, Dynamic Duos and Cocktail Tours

The second full day at Tales of the Cocktail on Tour started a lot more subdued than the previous. As with all Tales of the Cocktail events, a large portion of this day was occupied with information seminars full of helpful knowledge and individuals from all sectors of the industry. If you think sitting in a conference room for […]

Exploration into the realm of Rum, Mezcal, Gin and Ancho Reyes

Exploration into the realm of Rum, Mezcal, Gin and Ancho Reyes

The final day of Tales of the Cocktail on Tour began at 10:30 am where attendees had the opportunity to get on a chartered bus and be whisked away to the Latin American Bacardi Blending Facility in the outskirts of Mexico City. Our guide, Enrique Comas, a sixth-generation descendant of the founder of the Bacardi Company, […]

Beautiful Booze visits Mexico City for Tales of the Cocktail on Tour

Beautiful Booze visits Mexico City for Tales of the Cocktail on Tour

Beautiful Booze visits Mexico City for Tales of the Cocktail on Tour This year Tales of the Cocktail visited Mexico City for its second and final year for the On Tour segment which changes location every 2 years. Along with some very informative seminars, this event takes some of the world’s best cocktail bartenders and places them in […]