The Detroit Foundation Hotel plays host to a handful of the most knowledgeable and respected names in the area’s spirit and hospitality industry for a lineup of immersive industry seminars. This event is presented by Sandy Levine, owner of The Oakland Art Novelty Company and Chartreuse Kitchen & Cocktails. Your ticket includes box lunch and water courtesy of Topo Chico.

10:00 AM

Knife Skills and Life Skills
Jimmy Hill, Lakeland Correctional Culinary & Hospitality

10:30 AM

Hassle Free Health Care
Paul Thomas, Plum Health

11:00 AM

Value of Continued Mentoring
James Rigato, Chef/Owner of Mabel Grey & Luciano DelSignore, Chef/Owner of Bacco Ristorante and Bigalora

11:30 AM

Bartender to Brand
Robyn Cleveland, Founder of Greater Detroit USBG & Owner of Norden Spirits

12:00 PM

Lunch

12:30 PM

Raicilla – The Next Denomination
Nikhil Bahadur, Founder of Blue Nectar Spirits

1:15 PM

Galliano presents Italian Liqueurs
Tanya Cohn, Galliano Brand Manager USA

2:00 PM

Pulling Back the Curtain on Spirit Production
Justin Aden, Distiller at Valentine Distilling Co.

2:45 PM

Panel Discussion – Detroit Represents

Ping Ho, Owner and Wine Director at the Royce and Marrow
Will Lee, Partner of Grey Ghost & Second Best
Sandy Levine, Owner of The Oakland & Chartreuse
Dave Kwiatkowski, Owner of Detroit Optimist Society
Joe Robinson, Partner of Standby, The Skip & Deluxx Fluxx

Moderated by: Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press Restaurant Critic

Helmed by two Michelin-Starred Chef Thomas Lents, the Chef’s Table at Detroit Foundation Hotel hosts the Heaven Hill Cocktail Dinner. Enjoy the companionship of your fellow diners as Chef Lents and his team prepare portions of the menu in front of you paired with Heaven Hill Brands – Elijah Craig, Rittenhouse Rye, Domaine de Canton, Dubbonet, Pama, and Lunazul. Be prepared to place your palate and your evening in his hands during this intimate dining experience. Space is extremely limited.

Detroit City Distillery and their friends from Otus Supply present the release of Talon Gin. To celebrate, the fine folks from Otus Supply will be taking over not only the bar at DCD, but the cocktail menu, and the entertainment as they present live music in the distillery. Release starts at 6pm and music starts at 8pm.

Made with a dizzying array of 47 flavor-rich botanicals, Monkey 47 comes all the way from the Black Forest in Germany to bring you their Detroit Cocktail Week Happy Hour in one of Detroit’s most exclusive spaces.

Takoi presents a special, five-course dinner in collaboration with Plantation Rum where you’ll explore the adventurous world of Caribbean rum and bold Thai-inspired cuisine.

Detroit City Distillery brings the infamous Last Word and Alley Bar from Ann Arbor to the city. While the menu will be created by Guest Bartenders and centered around Detroit City Distillery spirits, they will be complimented with Norden Aquavit.

Experience a menu of original and fantastical gin drinks from Hendrick’s Gin.

Founded by internationally renowned artist and mezcal visionary, Ron Cooper, Del Maguey, Single Village Mezcal is produced the original handcrafted way. Through deep cultural relationships with Zapotec Mexican Indian producers in the remote villages of Oaxaca, Mexico, Del Maguey harnesses ancient, original organic processes. Sample cocktails made with this artisinal wonder during their Detroit Cocktail Week Happy Hour!

Treat yourself to a special cocktail menu featuring Ketel One Vodka, Johnnie Walker Black Label, Bulleit Bourbon, and Nolet’s Gin while taking in the Indie-Americana vibe of Jack Oats performing live.

Detroit City Distillery partners with Chef Thomas Lents and the Apparatus room, for a family style dining experience, paired with cocktails featuring the launch of their hand crafted Foundation Gin.

Detroit Cocktail Week proudly presents The Norden Aquavit Cocktail Dinner at Grey Ghost Detroit.

The ever talented team at Grey Ghost will be hitting their guests with a one-two punch of flavor and delight as a 5 course menu, created to pair perfectly with 5 original Norden Aquavit cocktails, takes center-stage for one special night. You won’t want to miss it!
(price includes tax and gratuity)

Norden Aquavit is distilled in DETROIT from 100% organic grain spirits, caraway and select botanicals. It was created with a modern approach to the centuries-old Scandinavian classic. The aim is to Share the Spirit of Aquavit and its versatility in an exciting new way.

Sing and drink the night away and share stories of The Kraken. As it is told, The Kraken Rum is an imported rum from the Caribbean blended with secret spices. Named for the sea beast of myth and legend, The Kraken Rum is strong, rich, black and smooth. It is said that a ship carrying one of the largest quantities of black spiced rum ever to be brought over from the Caribbean islands, for unexplained reasons, never reached its destination. Stories were plentiful, and while an attack by the Kraken is suspected, no stories were ever confirmed.

The party continues way past Detroit Cocktail Classic 2018 as Evan Williams Bourbon presents the After Party at Deluxx Fluxx with Evan Williams cocktails on draft and Solid Soul Club – Eastside Jon (Funk Night) and Mike Trombley (Macho City) – spinning a night of deep soul and funk 45s. FREE with your Cocktail Classic wristband. Entry not guaranteed.

You’ve almost made it through an entire week of DCW events and Valentine Distilling is rewarding you with a no frills Hangover Brunch. You bloody well earned it.

EXPERIENCE AN EXCLUSIVE BEHIND THE SCENE TOUR AND TASTING
AT THE  HISTORIC HOME OF STROH’S ICE CREAM AND GOEBEL BREWING CO.

We recently expanded to the second location we call “The Whiskey Factory” to make as much craft bourbon and rye as humanly consumable. The Whiskey Factory, a long-dormant building at 1000 Maple, located just off Gratiot Avenue between Downtown Detroit and Eastern Market, is the last remaining structure at the site that largely defined Detroit’s brewing legacy. Brewing at the site goes as far back as the 1930’s when Goebel Brewing Company built a massive brewery to compete with Stroh’s Brewery, Detroit’s largest brewery at the time. The breweries were located directly across the street from one another. Shortly after Stroh’s acquired Goebel’s in 1960s the building was converted to a factory to produce Stroh’s ice cream, a successful business created out of necessity during the days of Prohibition when producing alcohol was illegal.

Today, we’re reviving the long history of alcohol production at the site that started it all.

Participants will learn about the art and science of the distilling process from grain to glass. We’ll taste new and aging whiskey under development in the rack house. We’ll talk history and sample a range of spirits including vodka, gin, brandy and of course….whiskey.

Tour times: 12pm / 2pm / 4pm / 6pm

Attend Detroit City Distillery’s first release of their “Bespoke Bourbon Series,” a celebration of the origins of craft whiskey. Three limited-edition single barrel bourbons with unique mash bills featuring Michigan grains and bottles adorn with hand-drawn illustrations will be released over the next three months.

Not to be missed by whiskey enthusiasts and collectors, these bourbons will be released one time and one time only. When they’re gone, they’re gone for good.

This release party features Bespoke Bourbon No.1: Smoked Bourbon. Only 130 bottles will ever be made or released. This bourbon has a mash bill of corn and rye from Dexter Mill and features oak-smoked 2 row barley malt from Pilot Malt house of Kent County. It was aged for 2 years in a 30-gallon white oak barrel. This beautifully balanced spicy and smoky whiskey is inspired by our love of drinking around the campfire.

Live Music by The Whiskey Charmers

Deep Eddy Vodka brings its laid-back, handcrafted Austin vibes to the cozy confines of the Detroit Shipping Company to celebrate the close of Detroit Cocktail Week with great food and Brunch cocktails.