Just stepping into FloridaRama (stylized “FloridaRAMA”) is a trippy experience, but things also got tipsy at the St. Petersburg immersive art experience last Friday night when the Highball cocktail competition returned to St. Petersburg.

Utilizing hand-picked spirits—Jack Daniel’s, Woodford Reserve, Tequila Herradura, Ford’s Gin, Diplomatico Rum, and Chambord Liqueur—mixologists from nearly a dozen of the Bay area’s best bars and restaurants worked to impress a panel of three judges and the ticket holders who cast votes of their own.

At the end of the night, judges picked Sonder Social Club’s “Vida Libre” as the overall winner, while the overall winner in the people’s choice category went to “Pear of Aces” from The Living Room’s Shops at Wiregrass location.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...