{"id":75200,"date":"2023-07-03T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=75200"},"modified":"2023-07-03T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:26:11","slug":"tropical-shakedown-cocktail-competition-crowns-sonny-esponda-back-to-back-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/tropical-shakedown-cocktail-competition-crowns-sonny-esponda-back-to-back-winner","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Shakedown cocktail competition crowns Sonny Esponda back-to-back winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For its second year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/long-beachs-own-tropical-shakedown-cocktail-competition-returns-this-month\/\">Tropical Shakedown cocktail competition<\/a> took over Navy Proof bar at the Westin Hotel to host a four-way battle between Long Beach&#8217;s top bartenders.<\/p>\n<p>Returning inaugural champion Sonny Esponda, Ashleigh Hehmann, Brian Fernandez, and Heather Ramirez were the four contestants chosen out of hundreds of blind submissions. 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