![](http://gardenandgun.com/files/media/Edit%20Blog%20entry%20Cocktail%20Hour%3A%20Bourbon%20Root%20Beer%20Float/Bourbon-Root-Beer-Float-700.jpg)
Rob McDaniel met Will Abner for the first time in a field in southwestern Virginia. They were both at Lambstock, shepherd Craig Rogers’s bacchanalian annual gathering of farmers, chefs, bartenders, and other food-and-beverage types. "I was finding wood sorrel and wild shiso in the fields up there. Will just started making cocktails with it. I thought, 'That’s pretty cool,'" says McDaniel, who runs the kitchen at Read more on GardenAndGun.com