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Show off your Swan City pride by sipping on these Lakeland-inspired drinks

We asked four different businesses around Lakeland to make us a beverage that they felt encapsulated the Swan City vibe — here’s what they came up with.

Four pictures of beverages have been spliced together into a collage image. The first is a frozen coffee, the second is a cocktail in a mule mug, the third is an orange energy drink with whipped cream, and the fourth is a frothy cocktail in a swan glass.

It’s sippin’ time.

Photos by LALtoday

Whether you’re looking for coffee, cocktails, or mocktails, Lakeland has no shortage of spots where you can get a delicious beverage. And if there’s anything we know about our readers + followers, it’s that y’all have some serious pride for your city.

This got us thinking — what if we could combine our love for all things Swan City with our appreciation for refreshing beverages to create the ultimate pride-in-place concoction?

We asked four businesses participating in Drink Up Week to come up with a beverage that truly embodied everything we love about Lakeland — and did they ever deliver.

☕ The White Swan Freezy | Andrew’s Coffee

A hand holds a frozen coffee up with the Andrew's Coffee sign in the background.

A freezy from Andrew’s = the best kind of brain freeze.

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This frozen concoction from the winner of our coffee bracket starts with a caramel drizzle-lined cup, followed by swirls of frozen coffee with an ice cream-like texture that gets blended with white chocolate syrup before being topped off with whipped cream.

🍹 Farmer’s Market In Bloom | Cob & Pen

A copper mule cup is held up by a hand against a shrub background. There are strawberries floating in the drink and also a straw sticking out of it.

If the feeling of walking through the farmer’s market with fresh fruits, veggies, and flowers could be put into a drink — this would be it.

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While the In Bloom cocktail is a staple on Cob & Pen’s menu, this version of the drink takes a distinctly downtown twist with lavender gin and ibisco bitter liqueur from Dark Door Spirits in Tampa, orange liqueur, house-made strawberry syrup, grenadine, lime juice, and ginger beer.

🥤 Dreamsicle Energy Drink | Purrology Cafe

An orange colored drink with whipped cream and an orange crazy straw sits on a table with a mural in the background that says "Keep the Good Vibes"

Grabbing a fruity beverage followed by petting cats? Say no more, we’re in.

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Not a coffee drinker, but still want that extra boost? This purr-fect Purrology creation combines Lotus plant-based energy with orange + vanilla syrups and oat milk, and is then finished off with whipped cream, a crazy straw, and orange gummies.

🍹 Put the Spice in the Coconut | LUGO’s Craft Distillery

A frothy beverage sits on a bartop in a glass shaped liked a swan.

If serving up a tropical beverage with a twist in a swan glass doesn’t scream “Lakeland,” we don’t know what does.

Photo by LALtoday

If you want to get truly adventurous, this cocktail from the team at Lugo’s fits the bill with coconut pitorro rum, coconut cream, lime juice — and the real kicker — muddled jalapenos.

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