Nottingham cocktail festival launched
Cocktail lovers rejoice! Nottingham’s first ever cocktail festival launches this April, bringing together 16 of the city’s finest venues for a jam-packed week-long programme of events for drink enthusiasts
Taking place between 24 & 30 April, the festival is seven days of mixing, shaking, creating, drinking, tasting, clinking, debating and sipping across some of the city’s coolest bars, such as Brass Monkey, Orange Tree and 400 Rabbits.
A must-do for any cocktail fan, the festival plays centre stage to a host of one-off events, tastings, masterclass sessions, competitions and parties to celebrate the art of mixing drinks and the city’s wonderful cocktail scene. Running alongside the consumer events will be a series of bar industry focussed workshops and parties in partnership with some of the world’s finest spirit brands.
In addition to the event’s programme, each of the venues will collaborate with one of the world’s best spirit brands on a one-off exclusive cocktail menu. Available for the week of the festival, each cocktail is just £5 and available exclusively for festival wristband holders only.
A full list of participating bars includes: 400 Rabbits; Boilermaker; Brass Monkey; Bunk Ribs; Bunker; Curious Manor; Curious Tavern; Curious Townhouse; Das Kino; Lacemarket Hotel; Pepper Rocks; Rub; Rum House; Suede; Red Dog Saloon and Orange Tree.
Participating spirit brands include: Appleton Estate, Portobello Road Gin, Licor 43, Kraken, Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Brockmans, Old J Spiced Rum, Blackwells, Courvoisier, 1800 Tequila, Duppy Share Hendricks, Reyka, and Glenfiddich Woods
Nottingham Loves Cocktails was founded by drinks creator and cocktail enthusiast, Nick Fox. The festival has taken place in Leeds under the name ‘Leeds Loves Cocktails’ for the past 4 years, attracting thousands of cocktail fans in the process. It launched in Manchester in 2016 under the name ‘Manchester Loves Cocktails’.
Nick said: “Nottingham has a really exciting cocktail scene and this festival is the perfect way to celebrate all that is great about going out in the city!
“Nottingham Loves Cocktail is the ultimate festival for cocktail lovers with a jam-packed week-long programme of unmissable events and bespoke discount drinks that are guaranteed to have cocktail lovers licking their lips’.
“Over the 7 days, we’ll be encouraging guests to ‘drink better, not more’ by exploring the story behind people’s favourite spirits, as well as some spirits they may not have come across before with tasting masterclasses and events throughout the whole week”.
To gain access to the incredible events running throughout the festival and to purchase cocktails at the discounted price of £5, attendees must purchase Nottingham Loves Cocktails wristbands via Design My Night and Fatsoma. Early Bird wristbands are available until 31st March, priced at £7.50 for consumers, £3.50 for trade and £6.50 for students.
The festival will be supporting Macmillan Cancer and Hospitality Action, the trade charity offering a crucial lifeline to people of all ages, working and retired, from the hospitality industry, with 50p of each wristband sold will be split between the two charities.
