Q&A with Clay Berkes of Power House in Oklahoma City
Clay Berkes epitomizes Oklahoma’s laid-back, welcoming brand of hospitality. Berkes was born and raised in southern Oklahoma between Love County and Lawton/Fort Sill. At age 16, he got his first taste of the hospitality industry. But it was while...
A Q&A with Jeffrey Cole of WanderFolk Spirits
Jeffrey Cole, distiller and director of spirits at WanderFolk Spirits, is a fifth-generation Oklahoman with a passion to grow his home state’s prominence in the spirits industry, where historically it has been low in sales and consumption. A 16-year...
Top 10 Oklahoma City Bars
Oklahoma City is known as “The Big Friendly.” As my birthplace and the home region of a few dozen of my relatives, I can confirm it is quite friendly. Laid-back and chill for a capital city of roughly 700,000,...
Louisiana Rum Distilleries
In early December 2023, Ronnell Richards had the pleasure of representing ADI on a media tour of rum distilleries in Louisiana hosted by the Louisiana Distillers Guild. The group visited distilleries, bars, and restaurants across the New Orleans area to...
Q&A: Bartender Stephen Blackmon of Doar Bros.
Doar Bros. is a refined, chill respite of a cocktail bar on a touristy stretch of Charleston’s Meeting Street. It’s the kind of welcoming bar cocktail geeks would be at home in, but so would said tourists stopping in...
How Virgil Kaine Founder David Szlam Went from Chef to Distiller
Atlanta native David Szlam was a chef who found his way into craft spirits. After graduating from the California Culinary Academy’s Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Program, he worked with legendary San Francisco Bay Area chefs, including Gary Danko, Melissa...
Top 10 Charleston Bars
Charleston is one of the South’s most romantic and historic cities. I have been visiting the Holy City since 2007, reveling in its stunning melange of pinks, yellows, blues, brick, and beyond colonial-era homes, surrounded by water on three...
Don’t Mess with Texas Bourbon
To get to Hye from Austin, drive an hour west on 290, past Dripping Springs and through Johnson City, the birthplace of LBJ. After miles of scrub brush and ranch land, you’ll start passing the many winery tasting rooms...
Lost Spirits Soars to New Heights in Las Vegas
For attendees of ADI 2023 Lost Spirits Distillery has graciously shared a 25% discount code, which is good for ANY of their evening Modern Cirque Show tickets — use code DISTILLER25.
When distiller Bryan Davis and partner (in life and business) Joanne...
Top 10 Las Vegas Bars
Flashy and loud, with clanging, smoky casinos and gambling everywhere you look, “Sin City” is not always an easy place to get a truly great drink. But dig a little deeper than the lights and showgirls and you can...
