Happy beginning: Lake Geneva canned cocktail entrepreneurs spreading their drink across the state

Bill Gage of Gage Marine and alcohol industry expert Eric Weber partnered to launch the Happy Ending canned cocktail line last March.

The grapefruit-flavored vodka drink is a specialty at Gage's restaurant Pier 290 in Williams Bay, but Gage said he first mixed the drink in 1982.

Happy Ending is now sold across Wisconsin and in Nashville, Tennessee. Weber and Gage are planning to work even harder to promote Happy Ending and its ties to Walworth County.