Ok, I’m a little late in sharing this with you, but there is plenty of fun still to be had during Old Town’s 2nd annual Old Town Cocktail Week. The brainchild of The Hour’s Victoria Vergason, Cocktail Week is a celebration of all things cocktails. Events include cocktail tastings, cocktail-making classes, seminars on cocktails that include libations, specialty cocktail menus at more than 20 participating restaurants, and outdoor fitness classes. From the cocktail enthusiast to the novice mixologist, Cocktail Week has something for everyone.

Be sure to stop in at one of your favorite watering holes this week. These 20+ restaurants will have special cocktail menus just for you!

• Augies                        

• Bastille                                               

• Blackwall Hitch

• Brabo                         

• Café 44                                               

• Captain Gregory’s

• Chadwicks                  

• Chop Shop Taco                                 

• Daniel O’Connell’s Irish Restaurant

• Hard Times Café        

• King’s Ransom                                   

• Lighthorse                  

• Majestic Café             

• Murphy’s Irish Pub                            

• Tequila & Taco           

• The People’s Drug      

• Theismann’s                                       

• Union Street Public House

• Village Brauhaus        

• Virtue Feed & Grain Warehouse       

• Whiskey & Oyster

If you’re making cocktails at home, then stop in Red Barn Mercantile to get all your home bartending needs. Below are just a few of our best sellers, all of which are in stock and ready for Old Town Cocktail Week! Cheers!

1. Leather-bound edition of “The Drunken Botanist,” $95; 2. Whiskey Stones, $16; 3. Bittermilk Bourbon Barrel Old Fashioned mixer, $19; 4. Ancient Olive Trees Dirty Martini Juice, $22; 5. Peak XL Ice Cube Tray, $16; 6. Jack Rudy Bourbon Cocktail Cherries, $22; 7. Bartender Knife, $39; 8. East Coasters, $36; 9. Farmhouse Pottery Cocktail Beaker, $85