Hilton has partnered with creator, wellness coach and no- and low-alcohol cocktail professional Derek Brown on a beverage program for its Tempo by Hilton model. Constructing on the success of the model’s “Spirited” and “Free-Spirited” cocktail menus, the collaborations presents new drinks that mix useful substances, conscious ingesting ideas and cutting-edge mixology.
Tempo by Hilton’s refreshed menu launched on Jan. 1 in any respect places. Highlights embrace the Sage Towards the Machine, a savory twist on a Gin Bitter; Pink Grapefruit Membership, a vivid and citrus-forward cocktail that includes a salt tincture to sharpen the fruit’s taste; and Pear Requirements (proven atop), a vivid, bourbon-forward beverage. Every drink is accessible in each spirited and free-spirited variations, designed to mirror the model’s ethos of steadiness, sophistication and trendy way of life.
Brown, who cofounded the Conscious Consuming Fest and Drink Firm together with his spouse and accomplice, Maria Bastasch, is a former bartender identified for his work on the former Columbia Room in Washington, D.C. — named Greatest American Cocktail Bar in 2017. He additionally authored Spirits, Sugar, Water, Bitters: How the Cocktail Conquered the World (2019) and Conscious Mixology: A Complete Information to No- and Low-Alcohol Cocktails (2022), each acknowledged for his or her affect on cocktail and non-alcoholic tradition.
Launched in 2023 with the opening of Tempo by Hilton in Instances Sq., the model presently operates places in Nashville, Louisville and Raleigh, with 70 extra properties below improvement. Tempo by Hilton, which targets “trendy achievers” who search a lodge expertise that displays their ambition, gained a BevX award in 2024 for Greatest Single-Idea Hospitality Beverage Program.
