Tales of the Cocktail 
July 16-20, 2008
New Orleans, LA
Tales of the Cocktail
A culinary and cocktail festival for the connoisseur or amateur to fully experience (taste, see and learn about) cocktail culture in New Orleans and around theworld. The event’s annual components are Spirited Dinners, seminars, Cocktail Hour, Cocktail Luncheons, walking tours of the French Quarter, and classic and contemporary cocktail parties -- all presented by the country’s hottest chefs, authors, bartenders and cocktail experts. Tales of the Cocktail has “shaken and stirred” the New Orleans French Quarter since 2002 and celebrates its 6th anniversary in July 2008.

August 23-24, 2008
4th Annual Great American Distillers Festival
4th Annual Great American Distillers Festival
at the
Gerding Theater at the Armory
128 NW Eleventh Ave.
Portland, OR 97209

Current
Museum of the American Cocktail Mixology Seminars
Seminars all across the country on different spirits.

DAILY
Tour the Kentucky Bourbon Trail
Bardstown Visitors' Center, 107 E. Stephen Foster Ave. Bardstown, KY - 9 AM - 6 PM - FREE
Take a day or two and tour the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Enjoy unique tours of distilleries while learning the Bourbon-making process.

DAILY
Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
Spalding Hall, 114 N. Fifth St., Bardstown, KY
Time: 9 AM - 6 PM
An 1826 building housing stills, photos, artifacts and displays of distilling from pre-colonial days to the present.