The air in Tangipahoa Parish changes when April rolls around. It gets a little thicker, a little sweeter, and carries the unmistakable scent of ripe berries and festival excitement. For anyone raised in South Louisiana, the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival isn't just an event on the calendar; it is a homecoming. This year, the stakes are...
The air in Tangipahoa Parish changes when April rolls around. It gets a little thicker, a little sweeter, and carries the unmistakable scent of ripe berries and festival excitement. For anyone raised in South Louisiana, the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival isn't just an event on the calendar; it is a homecoming. This year, the stakes are...
Summer in the South doesn’t just arrive; it settles in like a thick blanket of humidity that only a cold glass and a shaded porch can fix. When the temperature climbs past ninety and the cicadas start their afternoon chorus, you need a drink that respects the heat without surrendering to it. Most flavored spirits...
Louisiana knows food. Louisiana knows how to live, too. Creole life runs on joie de vivre: the joy-of-living momentum that turns an ordinary night into a multi-hour, laugh-loud, pass-the-plate celebration, cher. Picture it operationally. A brass band is thumping somewhere down the block. The air is humid and sweet on a gallery porch. Ice clinks...
We're Undefeated. And We're Just Getting Started. Six competitions. Six medals. That's not luck: that's what happens when you refuse to cut corners and insist on using real fruit from real Southern farms. Most recently, Hardhide Chilton County Peach Whiskey won a Gold Medal and was named “Flavored Whiskey of the Year” by the world-famous...
We're Undefeated. And We're Just Getting Started. Six competitions. Six medals. That's not luck: that's what happens when you refuse to cut corners and insist on using real fruit from real Southern farms. Most recently, Hardhide Chilton County Peach Whiskey took home Gold from The Fifty Best's 2025 Flavored Whiskey competition, standing tall against spirits...
Picture this: smoke rising from the grill, ribs glistening with sauce, and your guests gathered around the patio table. You hand them a rocks glass filled with something that looks like liquid summer: a Strawberry Old Fashioned that tastes like it came straight from a New Orleans cocktail bar. That's the kind of impression you...