"Locals stop into Freeland Spirits’ elegant, sunshine-filled Northwest Portland tasting room throughout the year for seasonal or event-themed mini-cocktail flights, each highlighting its house-made craft spirits like gin and bourbon. The winter menu is stacked this year, featuring the adventurous flights of mini-cocktails as well as full-sized holiday-themed drinks. The belle of the ball is unquestionably Frosty’s Wonderland, which combines Freeland’s house bourbon with the herbaceous Czech liqueur Becherovka (Summer, a bar manager, describes it as “like drinking a pine tree”), a whole egg, and, of course, a crumbled candy cane rim." - Ben Coleman