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Northshore October 2025
  The Paddle Inn takes its tiki drinks very seriously. A thrill of excitement traveled through the entire staff, from co-owner Beau Sturm on down when a barkeep returned from a vacation in Barbados with a treasure scrawled on a crumpled cocktail napkin, hard-won from a Caribbean bar pouring the tasty concoction from old plastic gallon jugs. Shortly thereafter, the refreshing cocktail, called Nolan’s Rum Punch, debuted on the drink list at the tiny hot spot. “I love tiki drinks,” says Sturm, who owns the Newburyport restaurant with partners Suzi Maitland and Josh Childs. “It’s the last frontier of the cocktail renaissance.”
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