Top 5 Cocktails Fig and almond old-fashioned, Sepia, Peter Vestinos Pear Nectar, Sepia, Peter Vestinos Blue Ridge Manhattan, Violet Hour, Tobey Maloney Citrine, Graze, Jennifer Contraveos El Corazon with Del Maguey mezcal float, Nacional 27, Adam Seger —Michael Nagrant
Top 5 Chicago Mixologists Adam Seger, Nacional 27 Peter Vestinos, Sepia Jennifer Contraveos, formerly of Graze Tobey Maloney, Violet Hour John Kinder, MK —Michael Nagrant
Top 5 Local Brews Hop Juice Double India Pale Ale, Two Brothers Alpha King, Three Floyds Pere Jacques, Goose Island Summertime Kolsch, Goose Island Heavy Handed IPA, Two Brothers —Michael Nagrant
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