From July 25-29th, the French Quarter of New Orleans will become the epicentre of the Global bartending scene.
Along with an eye-watering amount of tasting events, parties and competitions, the five days of madness that is Tales of the Cocktail will also offer a full programme of training seminars, most of which taking place at the Hotel Monteleone.
Tickets don’t gon on sale until March 30th, but in the mean time, here is a full list of sessions so you can start planning your visit (hangovers notwithstanding). One of the sessions is entitled: Tangled Up in Blue with Jacob Briars, which is probably all you need to know.
- Advantageous Drinking – Drink on the Offensive with Anu Apte
- Agriculturally Anonymous with Bobby Heugel, Misty Kalkofen, Cecilia Norman and Thad Vogler
- Anise: The Treasure Of The Mediterranean with Francesco Lafranconi
- Aperitif Culture: From Italy to Argentina with Martin Auzmendi
- Bedroom Brands: How to Launch your Spirit with No Budget with Benedict Simpson
- Beertails: Mastering the Most Chemically Complex Alcoholic Ingredient as a Cocktail Ingredient with Adam Seger
- Bottle Alley: Drinking the Panama Canal with Jeff Berry
- Bringing Service Back! with Bridget Albert
- Citrus Macerations with Don Lee
- Classic Canadian Cocktails with Shawn Soole
- Coffee: The Missing Ingredient with Amy Zavatto
- Cognac: The Barkeep’s Forgotten Friend with Dave Broom and Tristan Stephenson
- A Cook Walks into the Bar and Says… with Andrew Bohrer
- Curacao: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Favourite Liqueur Flavour with Philip Duff
- A Distiller’s Dream with Charlotte Voisey
- The Drunken Botanist: A Preview with Eric Seed
- The Emperor’s New Nose: Aroma Re-imagined with Benedict Simpson
- From Cocktail Napkin to Cocktail Bar: How to Open Your Own Bar – 3 Part Series with Philip Duff and Dushan Zaric
- Fruit of the Still with Paul Clarke and Matthew Rowley
- A Forager’s Pharmacy with Lauren Mote
- Good to the Last Drop with Brad Farran and Nicholas Jarret
- Greater Than the Sum of It’s Parts: The Art of Spirits Blending with Philip Duff
- Hands on Hand Made Bitters Lab with Ira Koplowitz
- A How & Why of Flavored Spirits with David Cid
- How Every Sense is Tied to the Other with Tony Conigliaro
- I Love/I Hate…COCKTAILS! with Claire Smith
- The Ins and Outs of Cocktails On Tap with Matthew Seiter
- Leading the Dream Team with Layne Mostyn
- Making your Own Vermouth with Jackson Cannon
- Meet the Two Harrys with Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown
- Mixology Media Camp with Gary Hayward
- New World Vermouth with Paul Clarke
- The Name Game with Angus Winchester
- PISCO: Wars & Distilled Delicacies from 1613 with Duggan McDonnell
- The Process to Perfection with Robert Hess and Audrey Saunders
- Reconsidering the Gin & Tonic with Jason Wilson
- The Rise of High Proof Spirits with Chad Solomon
- Russian Drinking Culture with Dmitry Sokolov
- Salts, Bubbles, Oils, Acid, Bottles & Barrels with Andrew Nicholls
- Secrets from Incredible Restaurant Bars with Jacob Briars
- The Spirit of Spirits with Derek Brown
- Spiritual Brews From India with Rohan Jelkie
- Sporting Life II – Stories, Songs & Sketches with Allen Katz
- Sugar: How Sweet It Is! with Camper English
- A Tale of Three Cities with Sebastian Reaburn
- Talking Tequila, the Sensory Science and Descriptive Language with Don Lee
- Tangled Up in Blue with Jacob Briars
- Tasteless: How Taste Alters as We Age with Wayne Curtis
- Tasting the World’s Greatest Spirits with Paul Pacult and Sean Ludford
- Tiki Host to the Stars, Stephen Crane with Martin Cate
- The Top Ten Cocktails of the Last Ten Years with Charlotte Voisey
- Traditional Chinese Medicinal Ingredients with Danielle Tatarin
- True/Untrue: Exploring Bar World Myths with Wayne Curtis
- The Ups & Downs of Running Multiple Venues with Franky Marshall, Tad Carducci, Susan Fedroff and Julie Reiner
- A Workshop, The Making of Liqueurs with Dale DeGroff
- The World’s World-Class Spirit – RUM! with Paul Pacult and Sean Ludford