{"id":134531,"date":"2026-03-10T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134531\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:28:11","slug":"visitpittsburgh-backs-new-organization-aiming-to-boost-local-cocktail-scene-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134531\/","title":{"rendered":"VisitPittsburgh backs new organization aiming to boost local cocktail scene \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Backed by VisitPittsburgh, a collective of bars and distilleries have launched the MixBurgh Foundation, a new collaboration to boost the city\u2019s cocktail and spirits scene\u2019s profile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A number of bars have joined the organization already, including downtown\u2019s Space Bar, Squirrel Hill\u2019s Hidden Harbor and Millvale\u2019s Poetry Lounge, as well as distillers including Maggie\u2019s Farm, Liberty Pole and Iron City Distilling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">MixBurgh was founded by Space Bar\u2019s owner Dale Vaughn, who said he was inspired to start the organization after visiting other cities to learn from their cocktail scenes and realized Pittsburgh was punching above its profile. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Backed by VisitPittsburgh, a collective of bars and distilleries have launched the MixBurgh Foundation, a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14496,62104,62105,1706,62106,62107,62108,62109,62110,29689,62111,39034,12502,14408,20436,62112,62113,62114,58027,5421,62115,62116,20035,7361,7029,73,75,74,32502,7470,15268,4047,13458,895,62117,62118,62119,62120,2184],"class_list":["post-134531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-alcohol","tag-alcoholic","tag-aperitif","tag-bar","tag-bar-counter","tag-barkeeper","tag-barmaid","tag-barman","tag-bartender","tag-beverage","tag-binge","tag-cocktail","tag-drink","tag-girl","tag-glass","tag-goblet","tag-ice-cubes","tag-making","tag-martini","tag-mix","tag-mixing","tag-nightclub","tag-nightlife","tag-occupation","tag-party","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pour","tag-prepares","tag-professional","tag-red","tag-refreshing","tag-service","tag-shaker","tag-stemware","tag-tumbler","tag-wineglass","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}