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🥃 La Ristra New Mexican Kitchen will host a tequila tasting – featuring silvers, reposados, and anejos from three companies – from noon-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, at its downtown Chandler location. The tequilas: Lobos 1707  (whose investors include NBA

🥃🍫 A Whiskey & Chocolate Tasting Experience – featuring five different craft chocolates paired with five different whiskies – will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, at Hundred Mile Brewing in Tempe to benefit R.O.S.E., a non-profit that

🧺🍸 Liberty Station American Tavern & Smokehouse is looking for bartenders to compete in the 86’ed Cocktail Competition, a ‘‘Chopped’’-style mixology competition it will host Tuesday, Aug. 29, at its DC Ranch location in north Scottsdale. The format: Four contestants

🍹Today is National Tequila Day, and drink specials abound, including: La Ristra New Mexican Kitchen: Specials include $5 house margaritas and 20% off tequila shots. From 5-8 p.m., Ian Eric performs at the Gilbert location (normally closed on Mondays) while

🍹 Century Grand (pictured) is one of four finalists for Best U.S. Cocktail Bar and Little Rituals at the Residence Inn/Courtyard by Marriott is a finalist for Best U.S. Hotel Bar in Tales of the Cocktail’s annual Spirited Awards, the

🍹 Bitter & Twisted Cocktail Parlour and Century Grand are among 10 nominees for Best U.S. Cocktail Bar in Tales of the Cocktail’s annual Spirited Awards, the Oscars of the bar industry. Both bars also were nominated in a second

🥃 SanTan Brewing & Distilling in Chandler will host a tasting and bottle-filling for its new Sacred Stave whiskey, American Single Malt, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Fill your own bottle straight from the barrel while enjoying complimentary food pairings. Tickets are $110 for one

🏆 Congratulations to Delena Humble, a bartender at Sin Muerte in downtown Phoenix, who won Arizona Cocktail Weekend’s annual Last Slinger Standing competition at the Republic National Distributing Company headquarters in Phoenix. Humble defeated Mitch Lyons of Highball Cocktail Bar in Phoenix in the final.

🍹 The 11th annual Arizona Cocktail Weekend runs today through Monday with dozens of events. The three signature events are the Cocktail Carnival at Walter Where?House in Phoenix at 9 p.m. Saturday, Top Bars at The Croft Downtown in Phoenix at 8 p.m. Sunday, and Last Slinger

🍹 SanTan Spirits has partnered with Casa Maestri Tequila and Sun Orchard Beverages to create a new line of ready-to-drink canned margaritas. Two flavors – a traditional margarita and a mango margarita, both high-proof (10.5% ABV) – are available at SanTan’s locations in

Scottsdale-based Tequila Corrido has begun selling its agave spirit in Tennessee, expanding the U.S. footprint for its Tequila Corrido Blanco, Tequila Corrido Reposado, and Tequila Corrido Añejo to 38 states. The company plans to launch in Texas and New Mexico next, although no dates

Little Rituals, the 3-year-old bar at the Residence Inn/Courtyard by Marriott in downtown Phoenix, has been named one of four finalists for Best U.S. Hotel Bar in the prestigious 2022 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards. Phoenix’s Bitter & Twisted, which

American Premium Vodka – a Phoenix-based company launched in March by Mark Gus Scott (pictured), drummer for the early 1990s glam metal band Trixter – has launched a campaign to donate $1 from every bottle sold to American Legion Charities.

Kudos to Phoenix’s Bitter & Twisted (pictured) and Little Rituals, which are among 10 finalists for Best U.S. Cocktail Bar and Best U.S. Hotel Bar, respectively, in the prestigious 2022 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards. Finalists will be narrowed to

Congrats to Chandler-based SanTan Spirits, which picked up six medals at the 2022 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious spirits competitions. SanTan won a gold medal for its Sacred Stave American Single Malt and silver

Macayo’s Mexican Food, the local chain with eight Valley locations, has rolled out a new beverage menu in consultation with Jason Asher from Barter & Shake. (Pictured: Bee’s Passion featuring house gin, housemade sweet and sour and passion fruit topped

The 10th annual Arizona Cocktail Weekend with more than 30 events at bars and clubs throughout the Valley starts Friday, Feb. 18. Signature events include The Cocktail Carnival (Saturday), Top Bars (Sunday), and Last Slinger Standing (Monday).

Spirit House, SanTan Brewing & Distilling’s tasting room and cocktail lounge in downtown Chandler, celebrates its second anniversary with a week of craft cocktails inspired by vintage ice cream trucks: Bomb Pop: A Citrus Rose gin base with layers of

CaskWerks Distilling in Tempe announced it’s losing its home of the past five-plus years: The distillery is located near the northeast corner of University and McClintock.

SanTan Brewery & Distillery‘s Spirit House in downtown Chandler celebrates its one-year anniversary with three days of specials this weekend. Today, you can get 20% off all SanTan Spirits + Bitters retail items. There also is a special Iconic Cocktails

Tempe distillery Adventurous Stills is discounting bottles of spirits and offering delivery during the coronavirus epidemic. The discounts: If you buy one bottle, you get 5% off; If you buy two bottles, you get 10% off; If you buy three

Tempe craft distillery Adventurous Stills will celebrate its third anniversary from 1-8 p.m. Saturday. Bottles of its whiskeys, vodkas, and gins will be available for $3 off. Mixologists from downtown Chandler’s Hidden House and Brickyard Downtown will be creating some

Adventurous Stills in Tempe introduces the fifth release of its quarterly Explorers Club series – a cask-aged version of its Papago rum – with a party from 1-8 p.m. Saturday. The rum was aged in barrels that first were used for the distillery’s bourbon