Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 30, 2025

I shouted as the descent accelerated, the ocean’s foamy white peaks reminding me of my looming refreshment at the ride’s end: a few IPAs at Draft, Belmont Park’s boardwalk restaurant serving standout beers from San Diego breweries such as North Park and Pure Project. Here we go!” Belmont Park oceanside amusement park in San Diego.

Beer

Cocktails with Suderman

JUNE 20, 2025

Subscribe now It’s the Strange Brew, a tiki-ish, gin-based beer cocktail from bartender Thomas Waugh. And since the bitter-tiki Jungle Bird is one of my all-time favorite cocktails, that’s a very good thing. You can, however, use most any IPA—ideally an intense, hoppy, extra-bitter West Coast IPA.

Tiki

VinePair

JUNE 24, 2024

Hard ciders and teas taste like popsicles , double IPAs evoke fruit punch, and Simply and Mountain Dew have spawned boozy spinoffs. Canned Micheladas Have Been a Simmering Trend Like a grill lit with gallons of lighter fluid, today’s alcohol trends are fast-developing fires, with hazy IPAs and hard seltzers burning up sales charts.

IPA

Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Im impressed every day by the knowledge and the thirst for knowledge that bartenders have across the city, he says. UnderTow is a tiki bar with tropical drinks. That free-wheeling creativity behind the stick sometimes outpaces locals appetites for adventure, Snapp says. Its a promising playlist.

Highball

VinePair

APRIL 28, 2025

If its not bad enough that bartenders have to deal with hordes of drunk patrons, the occasional rude interaction, and lousy tippers, hearing the whole bar erupt into a slurred chorus of Wagon Wheel at 100-plus decibels for the 10th night in a row only adds insult to injury. We hit up 10 bartenders from around the country to find out.

Bartender