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Drink Mobile: For Its Baba Sima Tonic, Kachka Provides the Earl Grey Brandy, Rum and Sugar Cube. You Provide the Fire.

It’s both the curse and blessing of a to-go cocktail: You can’t sit at the bar, but at least somebody who’s much better at making drinks than you did the work. With Kachka’s Baba Sima Tonic, though, there’s also a job for you.

Get Inside: Nine Things to Do While Stuck at Home This Week

Barb and Star is a whirlwind of friendship, romance, espionage and random musical numbers.

A Brief Taxonomy of Portland’s To-Go Cocktail Containers

When Oregon finally approved sales of takeout cocktails last December, it threw a lifeline to desperate bars and restaurants who’d spent the pandemic clamoring to sell mixed alcoholic beverages to go. But the swift, sudden rule change left many of them with another quandary: What do you put them in?

Drink Mobile: Wedgehead’s Cocktails in a Can

Surrounded by pinball tables, KaCee Solis-Robertson swizzles and shakes double-batch cocktails behind the bar at Wedgehead. Hers are the self-described “freakishly small hands” seen clutching rosary beads on the logo of her new canned cocktail brand, Little Hands Stiff Drinks.

Drink Mobile: What’s Better Than an Old Fashioned to Go? How About a Free Cheese Sandwich to Go With it?

Paydirt’s House Old Fashioned ($9)—Old Taylor bourbon with bitters and sugar, plus an orange twist and “fancy cherry”—is made to order, funneled into 4-ounce brown glass bottles, and accompanied by two pieces of pillowy white bread concealing a single slice of American, with nary a pickle, condiment or vegetable in sight.

To-Go Cocktail of the Week: Tropicale’s Oaxaca Forever Looks Like a Frat Party but Tastes Like the Playa

The clear, plastic Solo cups the Oaxaca Forever ($14) comes in are more frat party than playa, but the layers of flavors nevertheless transport you to that Mexican beach—first through a subtle wood smoke that wafts in the background like a bonfire on the sand, then by a swell of grapefruit that crashes against a dash of warming cinnamon.

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Drink Mobile: For Its Baba Sima Tonic, Kachka Provides the Earl Grey Brandy, Rum and Sugar Cube. You Provide the Fire.

Get Inside: Nine Things to Do While Stuck at Home This Week

A Brief Taxonomy of Portland’s To-Go Cocktail Containers

Drink Mobile: Wedgehead’s Cocktails in a Can

Drink Mobile: What’s Better Than an Old Fashioned to Go? How About a Free Cheese Sandwich to Go With it?

To-Go Cocktail of the Week: Tropicale’s Oaxaca Forever Looks Like a Frat Party but Tastes Like the Playa

Five Places to Get Cocktails to Go in Portland

The Old Gold and Paydirt Are Reopening to Sell Cocktails to Go

Murmurs: Oregon’s COVID-19 Vaccinations Begin

Californians Tweaked To-Go Cocktails Bill at Last Minute, Adding To-Go Wine

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