Raise A GLASS!
Reader's Digest US|July - August 2024
FAVORITE DRINKS FROM EVERY STATE
Emily Goodman and Emily Tyra
Raise A GLASS!

ALABAMA

Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale

Born in the basement of Birmingham's Alabama Grocery Co. in 1901 when grocer Sidney Lee carbonated a pharmacist's extra-gingery stomach tonic, the formula-which fans say has a nose-tickling, almost spicy finish-has remained largely unchanged.

ALASKA

Duck Shot

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck-or has distinct layers of coffee liqueur, Irish cream and whiskey—it's got to be a duck. In this case, the shot created one snowy December afternoon in 1987 at the Peanut Farm sports bar in Anchorage. Order it by its full (if not particularly appetizing) name: Duck Fart Shot.

ARKANSAS

Grapette

This grape soda from Camden first made a big purple splash in the 1940s, followed by its sister soda, Orangette. After trickling to near extinction in the '90s, it made an early 2000s comeback exclusively at another Arkansas-born company: Walmart.

CALIFORNIA

Wine

Prior to 1976, good wine meant French wine. But a blind taste test in Paris that year saw the underdog, California, unexpectedly win for both red and white.

ARIZONA

Lemonade

The summer sipper featuring squeezed and sweetened lemon juice became the official way to beat the (dry) heat here back in 2019, after a local teen realized the state seal included four of Arizona's five C's (cattle, copper, cotton and climate) but left out citrus, a major industry of the Grand Canyon State.

Nearly 50 years later, Napa and Sonoma counties are called Wine Country.

COLORADO

Hot cocoa

What else would you want to drink during a Rocky Mountain winter? Enjoy cocoa as an après-ski sipper, or skip the slopes and go straight to the chocolate.

CONNECTICUT

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