Embrace the Umbrella


Written by Damian Gessel

drinks One after another, bartender Chelsea Cole has made 10 summer drinks - blending, shaking, stirring, pouring - and now they're lined up on the bar top in pinks and yellows and sunset oranges and neon blues. They call to me in the way only fruity drinks can, and I wage the same battle in my head men everywhere have fought since umbrella drinks came in vogue. I swear I hear the Pineapple Upside-down Cake Martini speak my name. I know you're a guy and it's not masculine to like me, but I taste so good. No one will know. It's OK.
Chelsea, a bartender at BJ's Steak and Rib House in Selinsgrove, Snyder County, has seen my kind before. Guys who will order a beer no matter what their hearts truly desire for fear of being seen as - gasp! - unmanly. It's time to face it, though. These drinks - the daiquiris, the pina coladas, the blue margaritas - just taste good. They taste real good. Get the recipes for 10 great summer drinks in the current issue of Inside Pennsylvania.

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