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 The first-ever Boston Cocktail Summit will take place OCTOBER 4 to 6.  Organized by The Greater Boston Beverage Society, it will be a three-day city-wide celebration of Greater Boston’s cocktail culture designed to highlight the city’s history of mixology, New England’s breweries, wineries, and distilleries, and raise funds to help... Read More

WILD TURKEY is running its first-ever television commercial: “Give ‘Em The Bird”.  The spot highlights a novice bartender’s hesitancy to obey his fellow, seasoned barman’s direction (“Just give ‘em the bird!”) to an intimidating patron.  However, it’s soon revealed that the phrase is innocuous bar slang for serving up a... Read More

To celebrate the 2O2nd anniversary of the original Munich Oktoberfest, HACKER-PSCHORR is running a Facebook contest.  The Grand Prize includes: airfare to Munich for two people, three nights’ Munich hotel accommodations, a Hacker-Pschorr Brewery tour, and VIP seating and hospitality within Hacker-Pschorr’s Oktoberfest tent.  Enter online at facebook.com/HackerPschorrUSA.  Entry deadline... Read More

The 16th annual festival will take place MAY 16 to 2O.  Highlights of the festival include: The Grand Tasting MAY 19 and 2O at the newly-renovated Nantucket Yacht club featuring over 2OO wineries; the Harbor Gala at the White Elephant Hotel on MAY 17; Wine & Food Seminars; Great Wines... Read More

The Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky has launched the “Balvenie Rare Craft Fellowship” – an opportunity for American craftsmen to earn to a trip to Scotland to spend time at the distillery and apprentice under another local craftsman of their choosing.  The winner will receive a $5OOO grant towards materials,... Read More

In support of its partnership with the Give a Damn Campaign, Van Gogh Vodka is running the “Cocktails without Prejudice” program featuring its signature cocktail, the Give a Damn Martini.  A project of Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Fund, the Give a Damn Campaign was launched in 2O1O to inspire straight... Read More

Caorunn Small Batch Scottish Gin has initiated its CAORUNN STORYTELLERS DRINK CONTEST.  Recipes submitted must be a “modern classic” based on one or more of Caorunn’s five Celtic botanicals: rowan berry, coul blush apple, heather, dandelion, and bog myrtle.  Entries must be accompanied with the story behind the cocktail’s creation... Read More

   has launched its second annual online Battle of the Bands contest which runs through July 1.  Bands or artists can upload songs to the online jukebox on the saloon website to enter.  Voting will take place at buffalotracesaloon.com or the new Buffalo Trace Battle of the Bands Facebook app. ... Read More