
Only a couple states, cities or regions throughout the nation can lay declare to an primary cocktail all their individual. Washington, D.C. has the Rickey New Orleans has its extremely own cottage industry of homegrown classics, from the Ramos Gin Fizz to the Sazerac and, of course, New York has the Manhattan. But there’s also a canon much more esoteric beverages that have developed up around the previous several a long time to turn into nearby obsessions, from Maryland’s Orange Crush to the dive-bar drink known in the Higher Midwest as the “Beertini.”
Here’s a tour of some of our favorites.