Across the city, hotels will serve red, white, and blue cocktails with historical roots in honor of the nation’s upcoming 250th anniversary.
Visit Philadelphia has created a “cocktail trail” that includes 31 locations across Center City, Fishtown, South Philly, Wynnefield Heights, and Eastwick. Drawing inspiration from Epcot’s “drinking around the world” challenge which local residents have already recreated on their own the initiative aims to drive traffic to hotel bars during the busiest period of the semiquincentennial. Each venue has developed a cocktail and a mocktail influenced by local history, ingredients, or landmarks, available from Wednesday through September 30.
Participants in the challenge can check in at any trail stop by scanning a QR code at the bar or logging their visit online. For each check-in, Visit Philadelphia will donate 2.50toPHLCares,anorganizationfightinghomelessness,untilthedonationtotalreaches5,000. Check-ins are limited to one per person per day.
What’s on the menu? Several bartenders are offering their take on Fish House Punch, a rum-based cocktail created at a Philadelphia fishing club in 1732. Variations can be found at Caletta (Hotel Anna & Bel), Vernick Fish (Four Seasons), and First Daughter Oyster & Co. (Renaissance Downtown), while THIRTEEN (Marriott Downtown) serves a classic version and a mocktail.
Others have reimagined the Clover Club, a gin cocktail made with egg white and named after a men’s social club that met at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in the late 1800s. Local ingredients such as Bluecoat Gin and Jacquin’s crème de cacao also feature prominently. Benjamin Franklin’s many accomplishments and personal punch recipe have inspired multiple drinks, while others are simply very blue or red, white, and blue.
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