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On October 4–6, the first-ever Boston Cocktail Summit will slake the city’s thirst for knowledge with more than 75 seminars, tastings, and parties at hotels and watering holes around town. We’ve assembled an interactive guide that hits some highlights. Read on and drink up. Day one: october 4 You run into the great Gaz Regan, the celebrated San Francisco Chronicle columnist who’s spent 46 years in the bar biz. He begins telling a story about a woman who once set a massive corgi on his bar and started to feed it garnishes . . . but then he gets distracted and wanders off. Do you follow him in hopes of hearing more weird shit?
Yes
No
Sweet, us too. See you at TALES FROM BEHIND THE STICK (5 pm; Storyville; $35).
You’re marching to a different beat . . . right on over to REBELLIOUS COCKTAILS AND NATIVE NEW ENGLAND FLAVORS (7 pm; The Hawthorne; $35). Afterward, toast to Boston’s bygone revolutionaries (and toss some tea overboard) at LIBERTY LIBATIONS (7:30 to 10 pm; Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum; $50).
Day two: october 5
Day three: october 6
Are you elbow-deep in some sort of libation already?
Hungover yet?
Beer
Vodka
Whiskey
It’s on! Sips from Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and the good ol’ USA square off at THE GREAT WHISK(E)Y DEBATE (4 pm; Park Plaza Hotel; $25).
Rum
How does a room full of the best rums on earth sound? Don’t even answer that. Off to RUM FOR ALL: THE WORLD’S GREATEST RUMS FACETO-FACE (1:30 pm; Royal Sonesta Hotel; $35) with you.
Yes
Explore 50 shades of grain at THE SUBTLE NUANCES OF VODKA (11 am; Park Plaza Hotel; $35).
Yes
That’s the spirit! (Ooh, see what we did there?) What are you drinking?
Tequila or mezcal
Continue sipping southof-the-border style at THE AGAVE SESSION: MAGICAL ELIXIRS OF MEXICO (noon; Royal Sonesta Hotel; $35).
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Are you able to drag yourself out of bed at a reasonable hour?
Gin
Taste some Brit botanicals at THE ENGLISH GINVASION (2 pm; Park Plaza Hotel; $25).
No
Bzzt, wrong answer. To THE SUMMIT BAR (FriSat; 10 am to 5 pm; Royal Sonesta Hotel), stat! Top Boston bartenders, special guests, and complimentary cocktails await you.
No
Sleep in and then head to DETOX TO RETOX: THE ART OF DRINKING 4 DRINKS A NIGHT AND NEVER GETTING A HANGOVER (2 pm; Park Plaza Hotel; $25).
Yes
Get your ass to COCKTAILS FOR THE MORNING AFTER (10 am; Park Plaza Hotel; $25).
No
You came refreshed and ready to meet some bar stars. So follow Jim Meehan (the mastermind behind NYC’s famed PDT), who’s juggling alluring and fragrant elixirs as he heads to ARTISANAL MIXERS & SYRUPS (10 am; Park Plaza Hotel; $25). Then hit the AUTHORS’ LOUNGE (Fri-Sat; noon to 6 pm; Royal Sonesta Hotel), where you can catch some of the industry’s most prominent writers.
illustrations by Braden Chang
This here is a cocktail summit, friend, but we’re willing to compromise. Hit up BEER & SPIRITS: HOW OPPOSITES REALLY DO ATTRACT (11 am; Royal Sonesta Hotel; $25).