There was a time, many of us can hazily remember, when going out drinking meant finding the spot in town with the cheapest pitchers and $1 test tube shots. OK, actually that still sounds pretty fun. But there comes a day when going out drinking calls for something more sophisticated. It involves places with garnishes displayed along the bar and people who call themselves mixologists and drinks with ingredient lists as complicated as a Michelin-starred meal.While a good cocktail bar used to be tough to find across this country, theyre everywhere these daysa good manhattan is within walking distance from every hotel in the country. But Americas coolest cocktails? For that, we scoured speakeasies and divey bars from Boston to Los Gatos (for real) to New York City and produced this list of the best and most popular cocktails in the U.S.

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