Mix It Up: Cocktails Inspired By Nashville’s Growing Scene

Rapidly becoming an American darling and haven for nomads, Nashville is truly a place of contradiction and fascination. Take the Jack Daniels distillery right outside of the city, where drinking is prohibited in town, but the company ships one of the world’s most popular whiskeys daily. Then there are Nashville’s favorite cocktail haunts, from the casual juke joint to sultry speakeasys like The Patterson Room, Bastion and The Catbird Seat. There’s the battle of hot chicken (Prince’s or Hattie B’s?), a timeless music scene, and recent tech and fashion boom. It’s hard to keep up with such a rapidly changing city, but easy to be entertained and satiated.

It’s in this region that bourbon becomes Tennessee whisky through an aromatic charcoal process so that millions around the world can enjoy the quintessential “Jack and Coke,” or a nightcap of Tennessee Honey, neat or on the rocks. The distillery sells 57% of its product outside the U.S., with the U.K., Australia and Germany as its top three buyers. From Kentucky to Tennessee, the United States’ bourbon and whisky belt is a playground for cocktail lovers around the world and mixologists to explore inventive ways to mash-up their latest creation.