The History of the Famous Chambers Punch

The Famous Chambers punch, originally served at Chambers Landing was created by Rick Brown.

When he was young, Brown spent most of his summers on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe with his grandfather Don Huff Sr., bought the Homewood Hotel in 1938 and ran it until it was purchased by the The Alrich family in 1962 and the Hotel was torn down.

Rick and his brother Stan used to race their 1960 Chris Craft in Lake Tahoe’s popular boat races. In 1976 Brown won the famous Bang and Go Back race, and took his trophy into the Chambers Landing bar. He told the bartender Sid Willeford that he wanted to use his trophy to make an original Lake Tahoe drink. There were three different versions of the punch mixed up in the trophy before the final result came out.

It became the signature drink of Chambers Landing, but when Chambers Landing was bought out by Chris Fanani in 2023, Rick retained the rights to the name "Chambers Punch".
Chambers Landing created a similar drink called Chambers Crush.

Rick Rick now owns several west shore resturants, Swiss Lakewood, and Fire Sign, and started serving Chambers Punch there.
In 2025 he bought Obexers Market and created Dockside Trading Company with an outside bar and grill, which also serves Chambers Punch.
I ran into a guy there who said he had downed 5 Chambers Punches in one sitting, but would never do it again.