Celebrate the first day of Winter with some free Hot Chocolate!*
Stop by our second Boozy Hot Chocolate Bar event of the season. There will be free Lake Champlain Chocolates hot chocolate, all the toppings your heart desires, and for those 21+, you can add our local booze for just $5!
We can't think of a better way to warm up!
*while supplies last
You know the drill friends; free Lake Champlain Chocolates hot chocolate for anyone, add your favorite toppings from our complimentary sweets selection, then head to the bar (for those 21+) to add our local booze for only $5.
We start pouring hot chocolate at 12 until supplies run out. We'll be having one every month during the winter season so head to our event page to check out all the dates.
Our bar will be operating as normal as well for all your craft cocktail needs.
We'll see you then!
“Whiskey Cocktails And The Bitters That Love Them”
Our next guest teacher is Ian Hood of Deli/126! He is a full time Bartender, an educator on many booze related topics, and is also a certified Sommelier.
Join him for a tasting, discussion, and historical tour of whiskey and the important interplay of bitters with cocktails.
You will experience tasting classic cocktails without bitters in them, then again after adding the bitters to see how they transform the drinks.
We’ll also be providing snacks by Deli/126!
Class includes 1 welcome cocktail and you will leave with the recipes for the drinks you created. Participants receive 10% off barware on the day of the class.
Tickets are $40.00 per person.
It's peak season for foliage, sweaters, bean boots, and Hot Cider!!
This crisp fall air is making us crave a good cup of hot cider, and we wouldn't want to have one without you all! Starting at 12 we'll be handing out free Hot Cider from Shelburne Orchards while supplies last. Add a slice of fruit or a cinnamon stick, and for those 21+ head over to the bar and add our local booze to your cup for just $5!
We'll see you then!
A Cocktail Class with an amazing Eastern Mediterranean twist!
Our next guest teacher is Olive Robb of Honey Road Restaurant! She has been bartending there since opening, and now runs the cocktail program. She has been bartending for over 5 years now and pulls inspiration from Cara the Chef, cookbooks from the region, and from her personal experience growing up in Israel.
She will teach you about making syrups, shrubs, infusions, where to find inspiration for your cocktails, and how to pair them with excellent food. And she might even give you a sneak peak of cocktails from their next menu...
Class includes 1 welcome cocktail and you will leave with the recipes for the drinks you created. Participants receive 10% off barware on the day of the class.
Tickets are $40.00 per person.
Join the von Trapp family for their 10th annual Oktoberfest celebration! Enjoy a festive day of family-friendly activities and lawn games, live music from the Inseldudler Band, delicious Austrian fare, and a traditional Oktoberfest Keg Tapping (scheduled for 3 PM). Entrance to the event is free, with the opportunity to purchase a von Trapp Lager and commemorative 2019 Oktoberfest stein for $10 (while supplies last). Additional beer and food available for purchase. Prost!
Set in the backdrop of our world renowned Vermont fall foliage, attendees of the 10th Annual Vermont Wine & Harvest Festival will discover, savor and enjoy Vermont vintners, small specialty food producers, chefs, painters, publishers, cheese makers, potters, jewelers, photographers and farmers.
Join our next cocktail class taught by Vermont's 2019 Bartender of the year Emily Morton! Emily is the Bar Manager at the amazing Deli 126, a speakeasy-style cocktail bar located in downtown Burlington. Emily is a connoisseur of classic craft cocktails and is always on the hunt for new ideas. She is constantly doing research on the industry to stay up to date on new products and trends, as well as to bring back long forgotten recipes of the cocktail world. Her take on a Mad River Distillers Cocktail Class will be quite an original one that you won't want to miss!
Join Emily at her Temperance-style Cocktail Class where she will walk you through classic cocktail recipes, and then provide you with a non-alcoholic way to make it!
Class includes 1 welcome cocktail and you will leave with the recipes for the drinks you created. Participants receive 10% off barware on the day of the class.
Tickets are $40.00 per person
Join garlic-lovers from throughout the country as they come to enjoy the quintessential Vermont festival, now on it's 24th year! #GARLICFEST19
WEBSITE:
www.lovegarlic.com
The 49th Annual Mad River Craft Fair, Sat., Aug. 31 & Sun., Sept. 1, Kenyon’s Field, Waitsfield, VT, 10 am - 5 pm: 2/3 under a giant tent, 100+ juried artists, four bands, delicious food court (craft cocktails and beer), door prizes and free kids' activities! A great family day (rain or shine) to browse handmade items and meet the artists.
Join garlic-lovers from throughout the country as they come to enjoy the quintessential Vermont festival, now on it's 24th year! #GARLICFEST19
WEBSITE:
www.lovegarlic.com
The 49th Annual Mad River Craft Fair, Sat., Aug. 31 & Sun., Sept. 1, Kenyon’s Field, Waitsfield, VT, 10 am - 5 pm: 2/3 under a giant tent, 100+ juried artists, four bands, delicious food court (craft cocktails and beer), door prizes and free kids' activities! A great family day (rain or shine) to browse handmade items and meet the artists. www.madrivercraftfair.com
Cocktail culture can be intimidating. You see a lot of hip bars with even hipper bartenders shaking and stirring cocktails inside. There are spirits you’ve never heard of, obscure liqueurs and strange amari lining the shelves and populating the cocktail menu. And let’s be honest, sometimes you smile and nod like you’re in the know, but you’re not. We’ve certainly, secretly, looked something up on a phone before ordering, rather than just ask.
Luckily, bartenders are a friendly bunch that, by and large, love to share and discuss their craft. That, and this is a post about stirring vs shaking cocktails, so you’re already on the train to cocktail knowledge-ville. You might even start spontaneously sprouting tattoos and a vintage style haircut by the end of this article.
Maybe an important question to understanding when to stir vs shake is why stir or shake, ie: what does stirring do that shaking doesn’t, and vice versa.
If you’ve never seen a stirred cocktail poured before, try it yourself. A properly stirred cocktail should look viscous when it comes out of the mixing glass, almost velvety. And that’s exactly how your first sip should feel: velvety. Stirring allows ingredients that readily blend together to do so, it dilutes the cocktail, making it more palatable, and (not least of all) it chills your drink as well.
Compare this to a shaken cocktail (think margarita or classic daiquiri). These should pour out looking a little carbonated. You might see ice chips floating around from shaking those cubes so violently. Shaking creates that affect by breaking up the ice, chilling the cocktail more, while also sloshing all of that delicious boozey mixture around and aerating it, making for a frothy sipper rather than a velvety one. Also, perhaps most importantly, shaking mixes certain ingredients together that, if stirred, would separate by the time you drink them (citrus juice, for example). Also, please shake egg white cocktails. No one wants stirred eggs in a drink. Ever.
So there you have it, you home-bar hipster you. Stir things made up of mostly or entirely spirits: manhattans, martinis, negronis, etc. And shake things that incorporate juices: margaritas, daiquiris, cosmos, etc. If you’re ever not sure how to prepare a specific cocktail, use that above rule of thumb or hell, just google it to be sure. A stirred cocktail that should be shaken, or vice versa, will make you sad in your soul, and no one wants a sad soul. You want a happy, cocktail sipping soul. So cheers to your soul, and to the delicious cocktails you’re sure to make at home.
You asked, and we answered! The wait is over and our Burnt Rock Bourbon is finally back!!
Join us to celebrate the rerelease of our tasty Bourbon with equally tasty snacks from Noix Ice Cream and Luiza's Homemade with Love! It's gonna be a party you won't want to miss!
And when you buy a bottle of Burnt Rock, we're going to throw in a Mad River Distillers Rocks glass for you to enjoy it in!
We'll see you then!
Join Vermont all star bartender Kate Wise for an afternoon of cocktail making. Kate has worked throughout Vermont at venues like Prohibition Pig, Doc Ponds, and is now currently working at Juniper Bar at Hotel Vermont. She also has her very own cocktail consulting business!
You will walk away with the skills needed to create classic cocktails with a "Wise" twist.
Class includes 1 welcome cocktail and you will leave with the recipes for the drinks you created. Participants receive 10% off barware on the day of the class.
Tickets are $40.00 per person
The 11th Annual Vermont Cheesemakers Festival is held at Shelburne Farms on August 11, 2019, from 10 AM to 4 PM. This perennial favorite Vermont food festival has been picked as a "Top Summer Food Festival in the United States" for the past 5 years and sells out every year. With over 40 Vermont cheesemakers and 100 food and artisanal beverage producers in attendance, the event is sure to please all tastes. Located at the historic Coach Barn on the grounds of Shelburne Farm next to the shores of Lake Champlain, this festival provides a great opportunity to connect with makers and producers in Vermont's most iconic working landscapes. This year in addition to the Festival, we are offering Educational Programs on Saturday from 10 AM to 3 PM at Shelburne Farms. Tickets are limited for the Saturday Educational Programs. Finally, on Saturday night, we will offer our 3rd Annual Vermont Cheese Dinner at the historic Round Barn in Waitsfield, VT.
Tickets:
-General Admission tickets are $65 and include a festival bag and a festival wine glass, and off-site parking. with busing to the event site. General Admission starts at 11 AM until 4 PM.
-Patron Tickets are $100 plus ticketing & handling fees and include an insulated festival bag, festival wine glass, and admission beginning at 10 AM until 4 PM for Patron Ticket Holders. Patron Ticket includes on-site parking.
Golden Tickets are $300 plus ticketing & handling fees and include exclusive Saturday educational programs at the Farm from 10 AM to 3 PM, the Annual Vermont Cheese Dinner at The Round Barn in Waitsfield, VT from 6- 10 PM, and the Sunday Festival at the Farm from 10 AM until 4 PM. Ticket includes an insulated Festival Bag and a festival wine glass with decorative lanyard, and on-site parking.
- Tickets for children 4 to 12 are $20.00. Teenagers and young adults are charged the General Admission prices.
-Children under 3 are admitted free.
PLEASE BE AWARE:
1. This is a rain or shine event. Weather in Vermont is unpredictable, so check the weather forecast and come prepared. Due to state laws, In the event of lightning or severe wind, all attendees will be asked to exit the tents and make way into the building or to their cars at the festival site. All attendees who were bused in will be asked to move into the building until any severe weather danger has passed.
2. Alcoholic beverages are being consumed at this event. The drinking age in Vermont is 21 years old. All attendees are asked to bring a valid drivers license, passport or state issued ID with them. There is no discount or reimbursement if you do not/ cannot consume alcoholic beverages. There are water stations and non-alcoholic beverages available throughout the venue.
3. Large crowds congregate in small areas throughout the event site on a mid-summer day. If you are unable to endure crowds in close proximity, this may not be the event for you. However, there are multiple areas to enjoy, so we suggest moving to another area of the festival if it gets too crowded or too hot for your taste.
4. Many of the exhibition areas are on grass or hard packed gravel, making strollers, wheelchairs, and walkers occasionally difficult to maneuver. Crowds make getting through the tents and the building somewhat difficult.
5. Dogs and pets are not allowed on Shelburne Farms property. Please keep your pets safely at home out of cars and out of the heat.
6. Refunds are available up to 7 days before the event. After that, we will be happy to provide you with a trade for the following year.
