07/21/2026
Nineteen miles west of Manteo, back where Milltail Creek meets the marsh, there used to be a town called Buffalo City — a logging boomtown turned Prohibition-era moonshine capital, once home to 3,000 people and a whiskey so good it had its own name up and down the East Coast. The loggers left, the sawmills went quiet, and the swamp took the rest. Today it's part of the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge — a ghost town in the truest sense.
We named our daiquiri in its honor. Ghosts of East Lake is our nod to that history — bright with cucumber-lime oleo saccharum and spirited with Kill Devil Silver Rum, this cocktail built for sipping while the sound goes gold behind you.
