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Happy Hour: Transfusion Cocktail by 2016 Beard Award Semifinalist Canon

Hilary Deutsch

Hilary Deutsch

Mon, May 16, 2016

To honor this year’s Beard Awards, we asked each …

To honor this year’s Beard Awards, we asked each of our 2016 Outstanding Bar Program semifinalists to create a cocktail inspired by a television show. This inventive drink from the Seattle beloved watering hole Canon takes its inspiration from The Walking Dead, because everyone knows that the only chance to beat zombie infection is to swap out your blood for booze. Get the recipe.

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Hilary Deutsch is editorial assistant at the James Beard Foundation. Find her on Instagram.