Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg just made Applebee’s the hottest club in suburbia. Their new “Still Together Sips”—two bright, tattoo-garnished cocktails made with award-winning Still G.I.N.—land nationwide for a short victory lap that fuses 1990s West-Coast nostalgia with 2026 chain-restaurant clout.
Applebee’s neon logo just got a G-funk glow-up. The chain’s bar program is now slinging two limited-time cocktails built around Still G.I.N., the premium American gin launched in late 2024 by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. Both drinks—price-marked at $7 and $10—arrive tableside with collectible temporary tattoos, a wink to the rappers’ decades-long anthem about kicking back with real friends.
What’s Inside the Still Together Sips
- Young, Wild & Free Fruit Punch – $7: Still G.I.N. shaken with grenadine, lemon sour and pineapple juice. Sweet, magenta-hued and built for Instagram stories.
- Rollin’ on the Beach – $10: A Long-Island-meets-Malibu mash-up of peach schnapps, prickly pear, orange and cranberry. Served in a chilled shaker tin designed for multiple pours—split it or keep the whole show for yourself.
Both cocktails skip the juniper overload common in mass-market gins; Still G.I.N. is distilled with tangerine peel, jasmine and coriander, giving each sip a silky citrus spine that plays nicely with fruit juice instead of fighting it.
The Spirit That Outgrew the Celebs
Before the tattoos hit the rims, the liquid already had shelf cred. Still G.I.N. earned a Master medal at the 2025 Gin Masters Awards—rare hardware for any celebrity booze. Dr. Dre told tastemakers the goal was “to fix what I never liked about traditional gin,” and the judges agreed, praising its balance and smooth finish.
That credibility matters. Restaurant chains are flooded with A-lister tequilas and mezcals; gin rarely gets the VIP treatment. By latching onto an award-winning, hip-hop-approved label, Applebee’s separates itself from every otherrita on the block while giving Dre and Snoop a 1,500-location stage to flex retail muscle beyond their earlier Red Lobster “Side Hustle” collab.
Celebrity Spirits Are Swallowing Casual Dining
Still Together Sips is only the newest verse in Applebee’s mixology mixtape. Recent seasons have featured:
- Dos Hombres Mezcal from Breaking Bad duo Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston.
- Teremana Tequila courtesy of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
- And across the parent company, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop just poured Pantalones Tequila fronted by Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves.
The playbook is simple: swap standard well liquor for a household name, mark the menu up two bucks, and let social media do the rest. The result is higher check averages, viral TikTok fodder and a demographic bleed—families, Gen-Z, hip-hop heads, sitcom stans—all ordering under the same fluorescent roof.
Where, When and How Fast to Move
Still Together Sips are available dine-in only at participating Applebee’s locations across all 50 states while supplies last—translation: if your local bar already ran through the shaker tins, corporate won’t replenish. Both cocktails drop at a time when the brand is rebounding from a two-year traffic slump; limited buzz is engineered to feel like a pop-up that could vanish faster than a mixtape link.
Add the built-in scarcity of celebrity booze (Still G.I.N. allocated its first production run to select markets), and you have a perfect storm for sold-out nights and secondary-market tattoo swaps. If you want the full experience—fruit-punch selfies, prickly-pear refill and that stick-on tattoo—go early, bring friends and maybe request “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang” from the jukebox. The bartender will know why.
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