The Boozecan hits Tales of the Cocktail for some libation edumaction. If you’ve ever been to a conference of any kind, you know they can range from so incredibly informative you think your brain might pop like a balloon, to so dull you feel like your skeleton will leap out of your body and beat what’s left of you to death. So more often than not, the best part of these gatherings is the booze. It’s either the only break your grey matter gets, or the only escape. Then there’s Tales of the Cocktail. A three day “conference” (for lack of a better term) that’s just all about booze. So, you know, for rubes like us, um…WIN! Unless you’ve been hiding in that crawlspace under the stairs eating expired Cold War c-rations for the last 10 years, you’ll know that the whole cocktail culture has seen a massive resurgence, with a whole new breed of bartenders & drink enthusiasts obsessively giving their creations the same devotion, care, and attention-to-detail Michelin-rated chefs would give to their last meal. So it stands to reason that in this day in age someone’s going to figure out a way of getting all these alco-geniuses together in one place to share recipes, techniques and probably more than a few bar horror stories. That’s where Tales of the Cocktail comes in. TOTC (as it’s affectionately known) is probably THE premier cocktail festival, in North America, if not the world. TOTC started out in New Orleans, where it’s been going gangbusters for eight years now. But this year by some miracle, the Gods of Alcohol smiled upon us, the great planetary martini glasses aligned, and they decided to take the show on the road to none other than our humble little burg: Vancouver. Three days of speakers, seminars, demos, competitions–and before you think it’s getting haughty–a pub crawl. And yea, The Boozecan shall attendeth. Stay tuned for a day-to-today recap (with writing getting progressively shittier as the days go on).

The Boozecan hits Tales of the Cocktail for some libation edumaction.

If you’ve ever been to a conference of any kind, you know they can range from so incredibly informative you think your brain might pop like a balloon, to so dull you feel like your skeleton will leap out of your body and beat what’s left of you to death. So more often than not, the best part of these gatherings is the booze. It’s either the only break your grey matter gets, or the only escape. Then there’s Tales of the Cocktail. A three day “conference” (for lack of a better term) that’s just all about booze. So, you know, for rubes like us, um…WIN!

Unless you’ve been hiding in that crawlspace under the stairs eating expired Cold War c-rations for the last 10 years, you’ll know that the whole cocktail culture has seen a massive resurgence, with a whole new breed of bartenders & drink enthusiasts obsessively giving their creations the same devotion, care, and attention-to-detail Michelin-rated chefs would give to their last meal.

So it stands to reason that in this day in age someone’s going to figure out a way of getting all these alco-geniuses together in one place to share recipes, techniques and probably more than a few bar horror stories. That’s where Tales of the Cocktail comes in. TOTC (as it’s affectionately known) is probably THE premier cocktail festival, in North America, if not the world.

TOTC started out in New Orleans, where it’s been going gangbusters for eight years now. But this year by some miracle, the Gods of Alcohol smiled upon us, the great planetary martini glasses aligned, and they decided to take the show on the road to none other than our humble little burg: Vancouver. Three days of speakers, seminars, demos, competitions–and before you think it’s getting haughty–a pub crawl. And yea, The Boozecan shall attendeth.

Stay tuned for a day-to-today recap (with writing getting progressively shittier as the days go on).

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