Establishment: Hopkins Brewing — 1048 E. 2100 South, SLC
Bartender: Maddie Villano
Cocktail Name: Harvest Reverie
When she’s not out riding motorcycles, hiking in the mountains, or hitting up live shows, Maddie loves the balance between efficiency and creativity that bartending offers—whether pouring a perfect pint or mixing up a custom cocktail, she’s all about making people feel welcome and taken care of.
She especially enjoys entertaining visitors with her take on Utah’s byzantine liquor regs.
Photography by Natalie Simpson, Beehive Photography.
When it comes to her own drink preferences, she loves the cocktail classics—a manhattan, an old-fashioned, a sazerac. Like many of the bartenders we interviewed, she laments Salt Lake’s inexplicable fondness for the Long Island Iced Tea.
Her cocktail is a dreamy tribute to Autumn in Utah, featuring local honey, Utah pear juice and two different local liquors—Sugar House Rye and Waterpocket’s Hartnet Amaro. Definitely not a Long Island Iced Tea.
Harvest Reverie
1.5 oz Sugar House Rye
.5 oz Waterpocket Hartnet Amaro
2 oz pear juice
.75 oz honey chai syrup
Short shake with ice and strain up in a coupe glass. Garnish with dehydrated pear.
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.
