2025 Chicago Summer Whiskey Tasting Festival (August 23)

Calling all whiskey lovers and connoisseurs... Take your taste buds on a flavor adventure at The Summer Whiskey Tasting Festival taking place Saturday, August 23, 2025! Our only summer whiskey event and last of 2025!
***Max Attendance For This Event Is 299 People, Buy Early Before We Sell Out***

🕞 1-3.5 hours of whiskey tasting bliss

🥃 Taste over 20+ different craft, small batch and world renowned whiskies

🧠 Learn all there is to know about whiskies directly from the ambassadors

💵 Food and drink specials

🎶 Live DJ to groove to

💃 Meet and mingle with other whiskey lovers

🥳 Saturday afternoon filled with fun and smiles

☮️ Additional tasting cups available for purchase, 100% of proceeds donated to Bear Necessities to fund pediatric cancer research

💯 Event Guarantee (see Q&A below): Things come up, we provide a credit for up to 1 year for you to come back and join us if you miss the event.

🤝 Text/Email support throughout the event (our contact info on your wristband): Just text us and we will help you navigate the event so you can get back to having the best time. You have a guide with you on the day right from your phone!

💰 Over $100 in additional after-event perks: We work with multiple lifestyle partners to provide hundreds of dollars of "After Event Perks" so you keep benefitting even after event day! We will send you an email after the event outlining all your amazing "After Event Perks."

🥃 Sample top shelf whiskey bottles valued at $80+

🥘 VIP small bites food buffet

🎁 Additional tasting cups to enjoy more whiskey

👸🏻 Early access, avoid lines and more time with brand ambassadors

• 3.5 hours of tasting (first to enter, no lines, limited attendance)
• 25 tasting cups- .25 oz pour per cup
• Sample top shelf whiskey bottles valued at $80+
• Buffet style bites from 2:30-4:00PM

• 3 hours of tasting
• 25 tasting cups- .25 oz pour per cup
• Sample top shelf whiskey bottles valued at $80+
• Buffet style bites from 3:00-4:00PM

• 2 hours of tasting
• 15 tasting cups- .25 oz pour per cup

• 1.5 hours of tasting
• 15 tasting cups- .25 oz pour per cup
  

• 1 hour of tasting
• 7 tasting cups- .25 oz pour per cup
  

Interested in showcasing your whiskey brand or business at the event? Go to tickets and register your booth today!

• 28 Mile Distilling
  Debonair Kentucky Straight Bourbon
  Elf Butterscotch Bourbon Whiskey
  
• Aberfeldy Single Malt
  Aberfeldy 16YR**
  Aberfeldy 15YR
  
• Alexander James Whiskey
  Alexander James Barrel Proof Bourbon **
  Alexander James Straight Bourbon Whiskey
  Alexander James Rye Whiskey
  
• Driftless Glen Distillery
  Bourbon de Naranja**
  Single Barrel Bourbon
  Single Barrel Rye
  Small Batch Bourbon
  Small Batch Rye
  
• Garrison Brothers Bourbon
  Garrison Brothers Balmorhea
  Garrison Brothers Guadalupe
  Garrison Brothers Single Barrel
  Garrison Brothers Small Batch
  Garrison Brothers Honeydew
  
• J Henry and Sons Wisconsin Bourbon
  Bellafontaine Reserve**
  Cognac Barrel Finished Bourbon**
  JH Small Batch
  JH Patton Road Reserve
  JH 4 Grain Rye
  
• KOVAL Distillery
  KOVAL Bourbon
  KOVAL Cranberry Gin Liqueur
  
• Milam & Greene
  Milam & Greene Distillery Edition
  Milam & Greene Unabridged
  M & G Port Rye
  M & G Triple Cask
  M & G Single Barrel
  

• Mississippi River Distilling
  Cody Road Bourbon
  Cody Road Rye
  Cody Road Honey
  Cody Road Peach
  Cody Road Barrel Old Fashioned
  

• Pursuit Spirits
  Pursuit United Bourbon Finished With Toasted American And French Oak
  Pursuit United Rye Finished With Sherry French Revere Oak
  Pursuit United Bourbon - 2023 Release
  Pursuit United Rye - 2022 Release
  

• Quincy Street Distillery
  North American Steamship Rye Bottled in Bond 9YR**
  Laughton Bros. Straight Bourbon Bottled in Bond 7YR**
  North American Steamship Rye Bottled in Bond 4YR
  North American Steamship Rye Straight Malt Rye 2YR
  Laughton Bros. Straight Bourbon 2YR
  Bourbon Spring Young Rested Bourbon Whiskey
  Golden Prairie Single Malt Whiskey 4YR
  

• Redwood Empire
  Redwood Empire Cask Strength**
  Bottled In Bond**
  Redwood Empire Pipe Dream Bourbon
  Redwood Empire Emerald Giant Rye
  Redwood Empire Lost Monarch Blended Whiskey
  

• Teeling Irish Whiskey
  Teeling Blackpitts**
  Teeling Single Pot Still
  Teeling Single Malt
  Teeling Single Grain
  Teeling Small Batch
  
• Templeton Rye
  Templeton Fortitude
  Templeton Midnight Rye
  Templeton Single Barrel
  

• The Bassment
  Bulleit Bourbon
  
• Thornton Distilling Co., maker of Dead Drop Spirits
  Dead Drop Bourbon
  Dead Drop Pecan Bourbon
  Dead Drop Old Fashioned
  "Prairie Peat" Illinois Peated American Single Malt Whisky: Winter Release
  "Four Malt" American Single Malt Whisky
  

• Whiskey Acres Distilling Co
  Whiskey Acres Distilling Company 7 Year Bourbon**
  Whiskey Acres Distilling Company Bottled in Bond Rye
  Whiskey Acres Distilling Company Bottled in Bond Bourbon
  

• Woodinville Whiskey Co.
  Woodinville 100% Rye
  Woodinville Port Finish Bourbon
  Woodinville Straight Bourbon
  
  Featured Partners:
  

• PRP Wine
  

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Downtown Chicago, Downtown Chicago, Chicago, United States