{"id":318582,"date":"2026-08-11T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318582\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:38:08","slug":"empire-state-sparkler-is-1911s-nys-fair-signature-drink-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318582\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Empire State Sparkler’ is 1911\u2019s NYS Fair signature drink for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

1911 Established<\/a> is unveiling this year’s signature drink for the New York State Fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s called the “Empire State Sparkler” and costs $17.<\/p>\n

Eddie Brennan, president of 1911 and Beak & Skiff, says his team gets together every year to talk about “what’s the craziest drink they can come up with” for the NYS Fair and this year there’s a lot in it. Brennan calls it a ‘meal in a glass’ including eight percent alcohol.<\/p>\n

“We are releasing our new cranberry vodka so that’s the base,” Brennan said. “We have a boba layer and then we like to pile things on top. We have whipped cream, cake pops, all kinds of candy. As outrageous as possible for the Fair.”<\/p>\n

The yearly creations are always popular on social media and Brennan says fans have embraced the drink naming contest and this year had over a thousand comments.<\/p>\n

Brennan appeared on Today in Central New York Tuesday to talk about the drink. You can watch the interview by clicking above. <\/p>\n

1911 will also have its hard ciders at the State Fair and cocktails including the Tipsy Cow.<\/p>\n

1911 has three locations at the Fair:<\/p>\n

Next to the Eatery. This is the only location serving the Empire State SparklerWest of the Expo CenterOutside of Gate 4<\/p>\n

The 2026 New York State Fair runs from August 26th through Labor Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1911 Established is unveiling this year’s signature drink for the New York State Fair. It’s called the “Empire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-318582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}