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Astral Margarita joins the ranks of excellent premade cocktails

Not long after posting about Diageo’s new bottled cocktails, the company has added yet another cocktail to the mix: the Astral Margarita. Margaritas aren’t all that complex, and I typically have all the ingredients on hand at any given...

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A view of all 5 premade cocktail bottles in Diageo's Cocktail Collection.

Diageo Unveils New Collection of Premade Cocktails

I’ve written about many premade cocktails on Boozist, and the number one reason is that they make my life easier. When I’m hosting a party, the last thing I want to do is stand behind the bar all night. This...

deadmau5 coco vodka can and logo

CoCo Vodka Launches Deadmau5 Can for Cocktails

While another celebrity seems to launch a tequila every day, Joel Zimmerman – AKA deadmau5 – is bringing something different to the party. He’s partnered with Coco Vodka on a specialty deadmau5 can to drink while...

Mike's Hard Freeze cans

Mike’s Hard Freeze is Nostalgia in a Can

Mike’s Hard Lemonade is taking it back to the 90s with their nostalgia-inducing Mike’s Hard Freeze lineup. While seltzers are always looking for the next random fruit to pretend their drink tastes like...

Ammunition Bourbon and Rye bottles along with cocktails and cigars

Ammunition Wine and Whiskey Bring the Heat

Companies that run both a brewery and distillery — a brewstillery, if you will — are fairly common now. New Holland, Dogfish Head, Rogue, Southern Tier, and Anchor immediately come to mind, but more than 150 others are...

Guy Fieri in a cool jacket holding a Bud Light Seltzer Hard Soda during the super bowl commercial

Drink in These Super Bowl Beer Commercials

This year’s crop of Super Bowl commercials looks a little different. Instead of an onslaught of Bud and Bud Light, we saw canned cocktails and hard seltzers share the limelight. Here are the 2022 Super Bowl...

Four holiday cocktails in front of a christmas tree.

4 Holiday Cocktails for Your Next Happy Hour

After a long, exhausting year, there’s no better way to celebrate a job well done than with a counter full of holiday cocktails. And while many in-person holiday parties are still on hold, there’s no reason...

5 More Canned Cocktails for your Holiday Party

The bigger a party gets, the less inclined I am to make cocktails. For big bashes, I used to just stock the fridge with beer, fill the counter with wine and whiskey, and say, “have whatever you want.” Well...

bottles of six fresh victor cocktail mixers lined up

5 Cocktail Mixers That Will Simplify Your Life

Making cocktails isn’t rocket science, but often I don’t want to think about finding a recipe, let alone juicing fruit. Throw Wee Baby Boozist in the mix, running around like a crazy kid demanding...

Summer cocktail recipe

8 Summer Drink Recipes – Cocktails and Mocktails

I don’t fancy myself a seasonal drinker, but I can’t deny that some cocktails taste better in the summer. Something about muddling a strawberry in the winter just doesn’t give the same satisfaction...

man straining a moscow mule riff

Moscow Mule Riffs Make Grapefruit Juice Worth Drinking

I was recently asked to create a cocktail for a company’s online happy hour. And while teaching and presenting are much more my forte than recipe writing, I’m not foolish enough to turn down a chance to make...

national tequila day

5 ways to celebrate National Tequila Day at home

It’s another fake holiday, and this time we’re celebrating everyone’s favorite succulent… agave. That’s right, it’s the paradoxical National Tequila Day. The day when the United...

vrai canned cocktails

Vrai canned cocktails are made with actual vodka

Ready to drink cocktails have come a long way since the disaster that was Bud Light Mixxtails. One of the latest to market is Vrai canned cocktails. Unlike many malt-based brands, like Smirnoff Ice or Mike’s Hard...

Irish Coffee

Irish Coffee Recipe from Mayor Daley in 1969

Unlike Chicago drying the river green every year for St. Patrick’s Day, Irish Coffee is a tradition that really exists on The Emerald Isle. Of course in Ireland it’s an after dinner drink, not a breakfast...

State Street Manhattan

Why wouldn’t you garnish a Manhattan with steak?

You can’t throw a t-bone without hitting a steakhouse in Chicago, but some will always stand out in the crowd. I don’t care about dinosaur sized cuts or the name of the cow they killed – all that...