Establishment: High West Saloon — 703 Park Ave., Park City
Bartender: Karina Brown
Cocktail Name: What the Duck?
Karina hails all the way from Australia, where she started bartending at 18, as you can down under. Eventually drawn to Utah by our great outdoors, she came to play and worked to stay. That love informs her campfire-inspired cocktail. “It looks like it would be a sweet drink, but it’s not.”
Farm-to-glass is about freshness to her, brightening up a cocktail with high-quality ingredients right off the nearby farm.
Working at a bar that’s also a distiller, Karina gets to lean into High West’s unique liquors. With 12 years behind the bar at High West, she knows her stuff.
What the Duck?
1.5 oz High West Gin
.5 oz blue curacao
2 oz What the Duck mixer
Shake all ingredients and double strain into a wine glass over pebble ice and top with Ruffino Prosecco.
What the Duck Mixer
Banana, coconut oil, toasted coconut syrup, lemon juice, polo santo bitters, basil and yuzu.
Explore the cocktail trail and vote for your favorite cocktail in the 2025 Salt Lake Magazine Farm-To-Glass Cocktail Contest.
About the 2025 Salt Lake Magazine Farm-To-Glass Cocktail Contest
23 bars from across the state present delicious cocktail creations and compete for the best in Utah. This year’s contest cocktails shine with all Utah has to offer, embodying the farm-to-glass ethos by incorporating the bountiful range of Utah’s native herbs, homegrown produce and locally distilled spirits. Celebrate the bartenders’ hard work throughout from Sept. 1–Oct. 1 by visiting participating bars, trying their unique cocktail concoctions and voting for your favorite on saltlakemagazine.com.
