When you think of flavored spirits, you might initially feel skeptical, rubbed the wrong way from too many cheap liquor experiences in your twenties or artificially flavored rum-drenched Caribbean vacations. But keep an open mind, the craft distilleries of Florida are here to change those perceptions.

The year was 1917. The nation’s attention was on the First World War. The price of a stamp was a measly two cents. How much did it cost to see 1917’s top grossing film, Cleopatra? Seven cents. Meanwhile in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the same city that was home to the Miller Brewing Company, more history was being made.

Even in Florida, fall is the season for change – changing leaves, temperatures, and…cocktails? That’s right, cocktails. As the fall season hits in Florida, so do the requests for more fall-flavored cocktails in bars and restaurants.

Released earlier this year, the Tobin Ellis Signature Cocktail Station from Perlick is a new piece of bar equipment often called the "bartender's cockpit." Ergonomically engineered, it makes "one-step bartending" a reality. This increases efficiencies for the bartender and increases profits for the operation.