The Boston Cocktail Summit

Citywide Cocktail Festival October 4-6, 2012

The Boston Cocktail Summit, the first-ever city-wide cocktail event, will be a three-day celebration of Greater Boston’s cocktail culture designed to highlight the city’s fascinating history of mixology, New England’s breweries, wineries, and distilleries, and raise funds to help local charities.

The Boston Cocktail Summitwill celebrate the culture of the cocktail with three days of events, parties, trade exhibits, educational seminars, and galas with proceeds supporting the newly established Greater Boston Beverage Society and their 2012 beneficiaries. A consumer event that is open the public, The Boston Cocktail Summit will allow local enthusiasts to celebrate, commiserate, learn about, and imbibe great cocktails. Mixology superstars will dazzle with creative and classic cocktails, celebrated Boston chefs will prepare delicious cocktail dinners, and local and international spirits authorities will offer informative and educational seminars. Evenings will be filled with galas, parties, cocktail contests, and more. The event will appeal to bartenders and mixologists, chefs and others in the hospitality industry, as well as cocktail lovers from all over the country.