Four Must-Follow Instagram Accounts For Cocktail Lovers

Feeling a bit fatigued by the sleeping-puppy and soft-serve-against-a-wall photos monopolizing Instagram these days? Shake up your feed with these four accounts, which will quench your thirst for great photography and inspire you to improve your home cocktail #goals.

Stir and Strain

The woman behind Stir and Strain is Elana, a cocktail expert and photographer who bills  her fun, interactive Instagram feed and blog as a “cocktail scratch pad.” Tag along as she tests recipes and crowd-sources suggestions from her followers on what  to craft next. Cheers to that!

Beautiful Booze

Cocktail aficionado and blogger Natalie Migliarini has masterfully combined two subjects that kill it on Instagram: booze and travel.  The premise of Beautiful Booze is ingenious: she jets to of-the-moment destinations like Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende, developing new libations, sampling white-hot bars, and snapping pics of the drinks (often made with photogenic seasonal produce and edible flowers) as she goes.. No spare vacation days left this year? Migliarini charts her recipes on her blog, so you can give ‘em a whirl at home.

Thirsty

Although New York City’s massively robust cocktail scene is changing constantly, Thirsty NYC aims to do the impossible: keep up with it. . The energetic feed is chock full of beautiful and craveable drinks from some of the hottest mixologists and bars in Gotham City. And followers will find that Thirsty NYC fully delivers on its brand slogan:“All Drinks, All The Time”.

PUNCH

Move over, Tom Cruise: PUNCH, the smart, savvy editorial website devoted to drinks coverage, is truly living out the  “Cocktails & Dreams” fantasy. Each Punch Instagram post is so colorful and so innovative-looking that it’s impossible to scroll through the feed and not immediately start making plans for happy hour. Challenge: accepted.