Tickets to our biggest tasting event of the year are now live

Over 25 distilleries, blind tasting competition, passed hors d'oeuvres, master distiller meet & greets + more.

Visit premierdramswhiskeyfestival.com for tickets and more information.

Kickoff National Bourbon Heritage Month with a special happy hour this Friday!

Join us this Friday with special priced pours of two legendary, highly sought after bourbons,
Old Rip Van Winkle 10yr ($35) and Van Winkle Family Reserve 12yr ($49).

Enjoy both pours in the dining room or one of our bars. No reservations required, cheers!

Join us every Monday throughout the summer for an all-day happy hour.

Our bar menu will be available all night featuring ½ price bites, $10 burgers, $12 signature cocktails, & $2 off all beer & wine.

No dinner service offered on Mondays, cheers!

Join us for the annual DC Rickey Cocktail Competition!

What's a rickey? It is DC's official cocktail -- from the Washington Post, "in the mid-1880s, [a] bartender named George A. Williamson apparently created the rickey at a famous/infamous bar named Shoomaker's, located on E Street NW, just off Pennsylvania Avenue. It was the go-to drink of a loyal Shoomaker's patron and Democratic lobbyist named Col. Joseph Kyle Rickey, who is often credited as the co-inventor of the cocktail. (The colonel preferred bourbon, but gin soon became the spirit of choice in the cocktail.)"

Celebrate the Rickey this summer with unlimited rickey cocktails from bartenders all over the city! A panel of judges will decide the top winner along with a crowd choice vote.

Expect cocktails that meet the following specifications:

1. Gin, bourbon, or rye
2. Lime juice or a comparable citrus
3. Soda water, sparkling mineral water, or carbonated beverage
4. Served over ice

Passed hors d'oeuvres will also be served. Cheers!

Join us every Monday throughout the summer for an all-day happy hour.

Our bar menu will be available all night featuring ½ price bites, $10 burgers, $12 signature cocktails, & $2 off all beer & wine.

No dinner service offered on Mondays, cheers!

Join us Amrut Master Distiller Ashok Chokalingam for a tasting of Amrut's newest release, Kranthi.

Kranthi is a NAS new release that will be featured in welcome cocktails and as a pour.

In addition to Kranthi, enjoy the full Amrut core range including Amrut Peated and Amrut Cask Strength, plus the highly limited Amrut Fusion X (classic Amrut Fusion made from Indian and Scottish barley and aged for 4 extra years in PX sherry casks).

And of course, as with all Master Distiller tastings, additional surprise special pours will be in tow. Cheers!

Join us every Monday throughout the summer for an all-day happy hour.

Our bar menu will be available all night featuring ½ price bites, $10 burgers, $12 signature cocktails, & $2 off all beer & wine.

No dinner service offered on Mondays, cheers!

Celebrate National Rum Day!

$12 Cocktails 
Jungle Bird 

Rum, Campari, Pineapple, Lime, Sugar 

TI Punch
Rum, Cane Sugar, Lime

Dominicana
Rum, Coffee Liqueur, Orange Bitters,  Heavy cream 

$57 Rum Flight
Alambique Serrano “3 Años - 2nd Edition” Ex Bourbon & New French oak casks | 3yr 46.4 abv 

El Dorado 21yr Rum

FourSquare Exceptional Cask Selection: Penultimus (Ex Bourbon & Ex Moscatel) UCF| 15yr, 57 abv

Join us and Tealye Long of Rare Character Whiskey for a breakdown of six brand new releases from Black Maple Hill and Brook Hill.

We'll talk brand history, the glow-up of Rare Character, and where the Whiskey World is heading as we sip our way through Sunday.

Select expressions from the tasting will be available for retail following the event.

Pour List:
Black Maple Hill 2026 Small Batch Bourbon | x YR, 95°
Black Maple Hill 2026 Small Batch Bourbon | 11 YR, 95°
Black Maple Hill 2026 Small Batch Bourbon | 16 YR, 95°
Rare Character Brook Hill Single Barrel Kentucky Bourbon | 10 YR, 141.50°
Rare Character Brook Hill Single Barrel Kentucky Bourbon | 15 YR, 133.66°
Rare Character Brook Hill Single Barrel Rye | 13 YR, 132.36°

Join us every Monday throughout the summer for an all-day happy hour.

Our bar menu will be available all night featuring ½ price bites, $10 burgers, $12 signature cocktails, & $2 off all beer & wine.

No dinner service offered on Mondays, cheers!

Join us every Monday throughout the summer for an all-day happy hour.

Our bar menu will be available all night featuring ½ price bites, $10 burgers, $12 signature cocktails, & $2 off all beer & wine.

No dinner service offered on Mondays, cheers!

Celebrate National Tequila Day with All-Day Happy Hour pricing on our tequila offerings. Check them out below: 

ROOFTOP TERRACE

$12 Frozen Margaritas & Palomas

$8 “Golden Ratio” Beer and shot combo; El Tesoro Blanco + Monopolio Clara Lager

SALOON

$12 JRDS Signature Cocktail “Lowland Love Story”
volcán blanco tequila, pineau de charentes, strawberry, green chile, lime, salt

$8 Volcan Blanco Tequila Pours

$18 Volcán de mi Tierra X.A

Join us for the second year running as we celebrate Chichibu Distillery and the release of their exclusive US Party Casks!

You'll be able to taste both brand new Party Cask releases - each Malt & Grain bottlings, finished in a Bordeaux and Koshu Wine cask respectively, and a roster of greatest hits and new releases from across the Chichibu range. We'll also be whipping up Malt & Grain cocktails all event long!

Pour List:

Ichiro’s Malt & Grain Single Cask #B0125 (Bordeaux) – Party Cask #1
Ichiro's Malt & Grain Single Cask #B0075 (Koshu) – Party Cask #2
Ichiro's Malt Mizunara Wood Reserve
Ichiro's Malt Wine Wood Reserve
Ichiro's Malt Double Distilleries
Ichiro's Malt Single Cask - Year of the Snake
Ichiro's Malt Distillery II 5 YR
Ichiro's Malt Single Malt 10 YR
Ichiro's Malt US Edition 2025
Ichiro's Malt US Edition 2024
Ichiro's Malt US Edition 2022
Ichiro's Malt & Grain (World Blend)
Ichiro's Malt & Grain 111
Ichiro's Malt & Grain Limited Edition

As a special highlight, Global Brand Ambassador Yumi Yoshikawa and Taichi Moriyama from Chichibu Distillery will be in attendance to meet guests and share their expertise.

A limited quantity of US Party Cask #B0125 will be exclusively available for purchase at the event as well as select bottles from the list above.

Passed hors d’oeuvres will be served. Space is limited—don’t miss this unforgettable evening. Kanpai (乾杯)!

We’re open early for the World Cup Finals. Join us in the Saloon or on the Terrace to view the big game with sound. $10 cocktails from Argentina & Spain, ½ priced bites, and beer specials. Cheers!

Join us for a three course seminar as we delve deep into the diverse world of Mexican spirits, covering how ancestral communities and techniques are navigating legislation and international markets. Maya Lalouani, Mid-Atlantic Brand Ambassador for 5 Sentidos, and Dee Jones, Brand Manager from Seelbach's, will join our Lead Whisk(e)y Advisor Chris Leung in hosting.

We'll ground ourselves in the history of the space and how production has evolved, then move onto tasting, cocktailing, and how we interface with spirits as consumers.

Lunch will be provided, with a Happy Hour featuring Rums of Mexico, Alambique Serrano, 5 Sentidos and Seelbach's, following the event.
Select bottles featured during the seminar will be available for retail purchase.

Pour List:
MX Rums Caña Dura Marcos López Veracruz Sugar Can Juice Rum | x YR, 46.7 abv
MX Rums Caña Criolla Pedro Bautista Sugar Can Juice Rum | x YR, 51.9 abv
MX Rums Caldo Orlando Vazquez Sugar Cane Juice Rum | x YR, 52.3 abv
MX Rums Caña Cristalina Marcos López Veracruz Sugar Cane Juice Rum | x YR, 49.4 abv
MX Rums Melaza Con Muck Pedro Andrés Jorge Nájera Molasses Rum | x YR, 57.1 abv
Alambique Serrano “Cartier 30” (Oaxaca, Sugar Cane) | x YR, 71.4 abv
Alambique Serrano “3 Años - 2nd Ed.” Ex-Bbn & French Oak (Oaxaca, Sugar Cane) | 3 YR, 46.4 abv
5 Sentidos “Jack Rose” Private Batch (Bicuixe, San Isidro Guishe, Oaxaca) | x YR, 47.1 abv
5 Sentidos “Seelbach’s” Batch (Sierra Negra, Santa Catarina Albarradas, Oaxaca) | x YR, 47.2 abv

We're back with another "In Case You Missed It" tasting, featuring some of the most talked-about bourbon releases of 2026.

From recently released single barrels like Willett "Winter Break", to exciting expansions of household names such as Eagle Rare 12yr and King of Kentucky Small Batch, to the first release a brand new annual limited release series, Austin Nichols Archives Collection "Gold Foil," this tasting is an exciting opportunity to taste the most buzzworthy bourbon releases of the year side-by-side.

The tasting will be led by Jack Rose owner Bill Thomas. With his wealth of knowledge, Bill will guide guests through each release, exploring what makes these bottles special and how they compare to the legendary whiskies that came before them.

Space is limited. Cheers!

Join us on the 4th of July, from 12pm - 10pm, we'll be serving up a special 4th of July menu of food and drinks on the rooftop terrace.

Enjoy a special dinner menu from the grill including featured burgers like our classic Big Jack Burger, Bison Burger, and Buffalo Chicken Burger, Half Smokes, Hot Dogs, and more.

Featured cocktails include $12 Frozen Banana Bourbon Coladas and Frozen Strawberry Margaritas, Spritzes, $5 -196 Japanese Hard Seltzers.

Join us for a taste of the past with Sam Medley

Sam comes from one of Kentucky’s historic distilling families and currently serves as President and Co-Owner at Charles Medley Distillery.

In 1976, the Medley Distilling Company of Owensboro, KY, released a limited edition bourbon to commemorate the Bicentennial of the United States, "Medley Bourbon USA".

The whiskey was bottled in a commemorative glass "banjo bottle," a signature Medley bottle design of the era. Labeled as eight years old, the bourbon was distilled no later than 1968.

Recently, Sam discovered a partial case of this rare release and is traveling across the country during America's 250th anniversary celebration to give Medley fans a taste of the piece of history.

In addition the the Bicentennial Medley Bourbon USA bottling, guests will enjoy vintage finds from the Jack Rose collection along with current Medley offerings including Wathen's Barrel Proof Single Barrels, Medley Bros, 102, Wathen's 94 Proof, and more.

Featured cocktails and hors d'oeuvres are included.

The 20% service charge will go to Jack Rose staff, cheers!

Join us in the Saloon for an exclusive first taste of the highly anticipated 2026 release of Maker's Mark Star Hill Farm Whisky, hosted by Maker's Mark Diplomat Kentha Stephens and Master Distiller Dr. Blake Layfield.

Star Hill Farm Whisky represents the first new mash bill and first wheat whisky introduced by Maker's Mark in more than 70 years. The 2026 release is a cask-strength blend of seven- and eight-year-old whiskies crafted from two mash bills: one made entirely of malted wheat and another composed of 70% wheat and 30% malted barley.

"The first release of Star Hill Farm Whisky was bright, approachable and straightforward; this year we've dialed up the complexity," said Dr. Blake Layfield, master distiller at Maker's Mark. "

The final blend—27% wheat, 62% malted wheat and 11% malted barley—delivers a darker, more layered aromatic profile, with a rounder structure and amplified fruit notes compared to that of 2025.

Featured expressions include:

Maker's Mark Classic
Maker's Mark 46
Maker's Mark Cask Strength
Star Hill Farm 2026 Release

In addition to the guided tasting, guests will enjoy featured cocktails, heavy passed hors d'oeuvres, and a signed bottle" of Maker's Mark Classic to take home.

This special tasting offers a rare opportunity to taste directly with the maker and learn first-hand about the experience of creating the newest chapter in Maker's Mark's history.

Space is limited. Select expressions will be available for retail.
please note, the event service charge is allocated to staff, cheers!

Tickets can be reserved on Tock, cheers! 

Be a part of the extended Van Winkle family this Father's Day with a tasting of bottles that will be sure to make Dad smile!

We'll cover the contributions of three generations of Julian Van Winkles to the American Whiskey world as we talk Pappy, the closing of Stitzel-Weller, and the glow up of the Wheated Mashbill under Buffalo Trace.

Pour List:
Elmer T. Lee | single barrel, x YR, 90°
Weller Single Barrel 2025 KST | x YR, 97°
Weller Full Proof “Jack Rose 2019” Single Barrel KST | x YR, 114°
Old Rip Van Winkle KST | 10 YR, 107°
Van Winkle Family Reserve Lot B KST | 12 YR, 90.4°
Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye KST | 13 YR, 95.6°

Tickets can be reserved on Tock, cheers!