Picnics are fun, but picnics with booze are better. And a picnic with booze where you don\u2019t even have to sit on the ground? Well, that\u2019s about as good as it gets. Lucky for us, taking your whisky to go is now easier than ever.<\/p>\n
Several years ago, New York designer Brad Ford<\/a> was tasked with building a custom dining setup for an AIDS fundraiser called Dining By Design<\/a>. Each year the charity event showcases glamorous creations that design nerds peruse while munching on canap\u00e9s. Ford mainly crafts posh residential interiors, but as an Arkansas native, he\u2019d spent much of his youth tailgating at Razorback games. \u201cAnd we camped a lot. I wanted to give both of those experiences an upgrade. I thought, what would be the ultimate traveling bar?\u201d<\/p>\n And so the first mobile whiskey trailer was born. It\u2019s essentially a portable bar, built from a Big Woody Teardrop Trailer plan that\u2019s been modified to hold rack after rack of booze. Apart from carrying several bottles of whiskey and tens of glasses, there\u2019s enough room inside to fit a few cases of liquor.<\/p>\n \u201cI think something like this really creates an experience, which is something I think people really long for,\u201d Ford says.<\/p>\n Executives at the whiskey brand Bulleit didn\u2019t long for the experience of camping so much as they longed for their very own traveling bar. When marketing staffers laid eyes on Ford\u2019s initial trailer they commissioned him to make a similar one for the brand, this time outfitted in wood paneling made from reclaimed whiskey barrels.<\/p>\n In 2012, Neiman Marcus picked up Ford’s first trailer as an item in its holiday catalogue. \u201cIt was more of an aspirational item,\u201d says Ford (meaning that no one was willing to drop $150,000 to buy it). It\u2019s no longer available from Neiman Marcus but you can order one through Ford or through Moor and Giles<\/a>, a leather goods company that represents him.<\/p>\n Ford isn\u2019t quitting his day job anytime soon, though. The trailers are just a fun side hobby of his and available only on special order. But hey, if you\u2019ve got an extra $150,000 he says owning one of these trailers is worth it\u2014if nothing else, for the attention.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you pull up in one, people congregate around it. It really brings a smile to everyone\u2019s face,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Whether those smiles are because of the trailer\u2014or because it\u2019s filled with booze, well, that\u2019s hard to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Picnics are fun, but picnics with booze are better. And a picnic with booze where you don\u2019t even have to sit on the ground? Well, that\u2019s about as good as it gets. Lucky for us, taking your whisky to go is now easier than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1724871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"uuid":"d49de4e7c2fbc12b7e3c0be85cd23802","footnotes":""},"categories":[2574],"tags":[2668,3121,2606],"byline":[1300],"ad_cat":[],"legacy-category":[],"class_list":["post-2457344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-autos","tag-car-camping","tag-food-and-drink","byline-ac-shilton"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Birth of the Mobile Whiskey Trailer","url":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/food\/birth-mobile-whiskey-trailer\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/food\/birth-mobile-whiskey-trailer\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated-images_parent\/migrated-images_70\/whiskey-trailer_h.jpg","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated-images_parent\/migrated-images_70\/whiskey-trailer_h.jpg"},"articleSection":"Food","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"sperkins-pom"}],"creator":["sperkins-pom"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Online","logo":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/favicon-194x194-1.png"},"keywords":["autos","car camping","food and drink"],"dateCreated":"2015-01-20T00:00:00Z","datePublished":"2015-01-20T00:00:00Z","dateModified":"2022-05-12T17:07:38Z"},"rendered":"