Impress Your Wedding Guests By Serving These Summer Cocktails

June 7, 2018 by DeniseB

It’s wedding season!

If you’re currently in a planning mode and wonder what to do about the beverages to impress your wedding guests, think no more! At Tri-State Liquors, we combined a list of refreshing summer cocktails that will surely wow your summer wedding party!

Delicious Summer Cocktails For Your Wedding Guests

1. Coconut Margarita

3 ounces lite coconut milk (from the can)
3 ounces tequila blanco
1 1/2 ounces triple sec
8 ounces coconut water
Fresh lime wedge, to serve

In a shaker, combine the coconut milk, tequila blanco, triple sec and coconut water. Shake until combined. Pour into cocktail glasses with ice. Serve with a lime wedge.

source: With Salt And Wit

2. Sparkling Summer Peach

2 ounces Seagram’s Peach Vodka
1 ounce pineapple juice
1 ounce lime juice
Sparkling wine (to top)

Add all ingredients except sparkling wine into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake hard to chill and combine ingredients. Strain into your glass. Top with sparkling wine. Garnish & enjoy!

source: Beautiful Booze

3. Strawberry Basil Mule

8 Strawberries
Half a Lime
Basil Sprig
1.5oz Premium Vodka
3.5oz Ginger Beer Mini in Lemon & Lime

Muddle fresh strawberries (roughly 6), 2 lime wedges and basil in a copper mule mug. Top with Ice, Vodka and Ginger Beer. Garnish with Strawberry and Lime wedge and basil leaves.

source: Brooklyn Crafted

4. Bourbon Peach Sweet Tea

2 ounces bourbon
2 ounces peach preserves
1 ounce fresh lemon juice
Dash of Aperol
Sweet tea, to top
Sprig of thyme, to garnish
Lemon round, to garnish

Mix the bourbon, peach preserves, Aperol, and lemon juice over ice and shake. Top with a generous amount of sweet tea and garnish with fresh thyme and a lemon round.

source: Host The Toast

5. Champagne Cobbler

1/2 oz. simple syrup
Orange twist
Lemon twist
Champagne

Add simple syrup, express oils from lemon/orange twist into a pint glass, drop twists into glass, add crushed ice to about ½ inch below the rim of the glass and fill with Prosecco. Swizzle. Add a small layer of crushed ice to make a bed for the Peychauds. Add 5 to 7 dashes of Peychauds and swizzle to create a layered effect. Finish by topping with crushed ice, mint sprig, and berries.

source: Brides

For more cocktail ideas, visit our recipe section!

Tri-State Liquors has all your wedding beverage needs covered. We stock 20,000 cases of imported and domestic beers, huge selection of ice cold kegs, soda, wine, wine coolers, liquor and more! Choose from thousands of beverages at the best discount prices and best of all… NO SALES TAX!

Tips for Planning Successful Family Celebrations

May 8, 2018 by DeniseB

Tis’ the season for graduation parties, First Communions, bar mitzvahs, weddings and more! If planning those parties often leaves you with a headache, we’re here to help! Want to know our tips for planning successful and stress-free family celebrations this spring and summer? Keep reading!

It’s safe to say that party planning ahead of time will allow you to have everything in tact and ready to go before the big day arrives. Without further ado, here are our 6 tips for planning unforgettable family celebrations this year.

Tips for Planning Successful Family Celebrations

Draft your budget to have a better idea of what area you can spend more money on.
Determine your guest list to know how many people you’ll need to accommodate/ feed.
Choose a Party Location to know whether you need to rent an event space or prepare your own house for the guests.
Plan your Party Food/ Drinks. Once you have a list of confirmed guests, it’s time to figure out how to feed them all! You know a great party simply doesn’t exist without beverages, right? Check out our Party Planner Drink Calculator to help you with all your drink estimates!
Choose a Party Theme. Are you hosting a religious gathering like a First Communion? Is it a graduation party? The purpose of your event will dictate what party theme you should go with. Whether you choose it to be formal or casual, it’s important to put it out there so the guests know what to expect, including a dress code and gifts.
Include Party Games. Last but certainly not least, the party activities! No event should end without them. Why? Because party games mean bonding time! If you live in the Tri-State area, make sure to check out Party Pros East Coast. They offer insanely fun rental games and accommodations!

No matter what type of family celebrations are ahead of you, always remember to plan ahead. Our last piece of advice? Stock up on your beverages! Tri-State Liquors has all your needs covered with a wide selection of wine, beer, liquor and mixers. All at very affordable prices (see this month’s SPECIALS). We are conveniently located in beautiful TAX-FREE Delaware with easy access from I-95.

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For the Love of Beer and Baseball

April 3, 2018 by DeniseB

Is there anything more American than baseball and beer? We don’t think so! With stadium names such as Miller Park, Coors Field and Anheuser-Busch, it clear that beer has big presence in baseball. Sipping an ice cold beer and watching a baseball game on a hot summer day has long been one of America’s favorite past-times…

“I think it’s just that atmosphere of a baseball game and having a beer—and maybe a hot dog or brat or hamburger or something of that nature, or peanuts—and just sitting there and sipping on a good beer is always a delight. It seems like the fans always enjoy that, and I do too. But what really intrigues me at that time and at that moment with all the other things that go on in the world, bad, indifferent, good, whatever, at that moment you’re letting your inhibitions down and watching America’s pastime. You’re just relaxed, you can let that stuff go. You prefer a win to a loss, but there’s something about that that’s very intriguing and nice, I believe.” – Beer Bob Gillis

And the joy doesn’t stop there. Thanks to the craft beer craze, fans are no longer forced to spent top dollar for subpar beers. Many stadiums have upped their micro-brew and local brewery offerings, making watching the game much more pleasurable.

Philadelphia – Home of the Perfect Pub Crawl

The city of Philadelphia has been a beer city since the turn of the American Revolution and was known as the greatest brewing city of the Western Hemisphere up until Prohibition in 1920s. Today, Citizens Bank Park, home to the Phanatic’s fans, offers a wide variety of local craft and micro-brews.

Since the craft beer explosion that began in the late 1980s, Philadelphia has regained its reputation as one of the premier beer cities in the nation and around the world. ‘GQ’ dubbed Philadelphia as the Home of the Perfect Pub Crawl.

So there you have it, plenty of incentive to make your microbrew experience a Philadelphia one. If you have a favorite Philadelphia craft beer, please share your thoughts on our Facebook page.

Let’s face it, beer and weekends go together too. 🙂

Tri-State Liquors has a full line of ice cold Kegs in stock. We got all your beverage needs covered and we are conveniently located in beautiful TAX-FREE Delaware with easy access from I-95.

Tri-State Liquors | 302.792.BEER

Spring Forward With These Green Cocktail Recipes

March 13, 2018 by DeniseB

When we think of spring, we imagine everything go bright, fresh and green. Even the cocktails!

Since March is all about celebrating and welcoming the change of seasons, we thought it would be a good idea to share some easy to make and yummy green cocktail recipes! These ideas are perfect for those who want to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a bang but don’t want to just drink green beer. Cheers!

Green Cocktail Recipes for Spring

1. Green Apple Ginger Martini

4 oz/120ml ginger infused vodka (recipe below)
4 oz/120ml fresh green apple lime juice (recipe below)
1 Tablespoon/15ml maple or honey simple syrup (made by mixing equal parts of maple syrup or honey with filtered water until fully dissolved)
Crushed ice

Add the apple and lime juice, the vodka and the maple syrup to a cocktail shaker. Fill the shaker halfway with ice and shake vigorously until the shaker turns frosty. Strain into the chilled glasses. Garnish with the reserved apple slices if desired.

source: Gourmande in the Kitchen

2. Minty Pear Mojito

2 cup peeled and chopped pears
3/4 cup fresh mint leaves (about 5-7 mint leaves per drink)
3-4 tablespoons agave nectar (You can also use simple syrup instead (equal parts sugar and water, heated on the stovetop)
4 tablespoons fresh lime juice
5 ounces good quality white rum or vodka
6 cups club soda

Place the chopped pears, mint leaves, agave nectar, and lime juice in the bottom of your pitcher (you can also make this in individual glasses. This recipe is for four glasses, so just quarter the recipe for one glass) and muddle the ingredients to combine the flavors.Pour in liquor and club soda and stir slowly to combine. Pour over ice and serve! Top with more fresh mint or lime wedges.

source: the Minty Cookie

4. Green Margarita

3. Green Margarita
3 oz. tequila
3 tbsp. lime juice
1 tsp. agave nectar
1 tbsp. triple sec
1 handful ice

Combine all of the ingredients in a blender, and puree until smooth.

source: The Kitchy Kitchen

5. Jim Beam Orleans

2 parts Angostura bitters
2 parts Jim Beam Rye Whiskey
0.5 parts simple syrup
Absinthe
Lemon twist

Give chilled glass an absinthe rinse and set aside. Stir other ingredients in a mixing glass, strain into the chilled glass and garnish. Squeeze lemon twist over the drink to release its essences but do not drop twist into glass. Serve neat.

source: Jim Beam

Tri-State Liquors has all your beverage needs covered. We stock 20,000 cases of imported and domestic beers, huge selection of ice cold kegs, soda, wine, wine coolers, liquor and more! Choose from thousands of beverages at the best discount prices and best of all… NO SALES TAX!

5 March Madness Facts You Need To Know + Printable Bracket

February 13, 2018 by DeniseB

If you don’t agree that March is one of the most exciting months of the year for all basketball fanatics, we have some crazy facts to back it up.

Did you know that roughly 3.5 million extra cases of beer are produced to keep up with increased demand during the basketball tournament? Apparently, it also costs businesses $4 billion per year to compensate for all the employees who decide to use their sick days during the tournament! Are you one of them?

This year, we decided to dig a little deeper and put together a list of more March Madness facts you should know about.

5 March Madness Facts You Need To Know

March Madness commercials are just as expensive. If you thought Super Bowl commercials were expensive, you’re wrong. In 2012, the average cost of a 30-second commercial during March Madness was $1.34 million. Moreover, ad spending reached $1 billion for the first time ever that year.

Only one coach has ever won both championships in the NCAA and NBA. That guy is Larry Brown who did it with the Kansas Jayhawks in 1988 (NCAA) and the Detroit Pistons in 2004 (NBA).

The University of Connecticut is the only school to have won men’s and women’s national championship teams in the same year… twice in 2004 and 2014.
The NCAA doesn’t want you to gamble on your bracket. An official policy states: “Fantasy leagues, March Madness brackets, sports pools, online sports bets and sports parlay cards are all forms of sports wagering. If you put something at risk, such as an entry fee, for an opportunity to win something in return, you violate the NCAA sports wagering bylaws.”
Increase in pizza and beer sales. Everybody knows that watching basketball is that much better if you have a beer and pizza in hand! According to Wallethub, while American beer companies produce an average of 14 million barrels a month, that number will bloat to somewhere between 17-18 million barrels in March. Pizza orders increase by 19%.

Did you know any of these March Madness facts? If you want to know how the March Madness phrase was coined or who holds the most titles by far, visit this post.

Download your March Madness bracket here.

The bracket odds may not be in your favor, but great prices on beverages should be! Tri-State Liquors has the lowest prices on alcohol! We are located in TAX-FREE Delaware, just over the I95 PA / DE line Naamans Rd. Exit.

Make sure to check out inventory SPECIALS to get your parties well equipped without spending too much money on alcohol!