The 7 Exhibitors We’re Most Excited to Go to at Bar Convent Brooklyn This Yr

 Bar Convent Brooklyn (BCB) is returning to Business Metropolis in Brooklyn, New York, on June 10-11, 2025. This two-day occasion has turn into one of the necessary annual gatherings for the drinks business, and this 12 months’s seventh iteration guarantees to be the most important BCB but.

For drinks professionals, BCB is a useful occasion. It’s a main alternative to community with manufacturers, writers, and bartenders, and it presents a packed schedule of instructional seminars and programming designed to assist advance your profession within the drinks business. Whereas the social side is a significant draw, the primary occasion is tasting the newest spirits, liqueurs, and different new releases featured within the exhibition halls.

With greater than 230 exhibitors from 48 nations anticipated, navigating the ground could be daunting. Even with two full days to discover, it’s merely not attainable, or advisable, to pattern all the pieces. A little bit of planning goes a great distance.

To assist each first-timers and BCB veterans navigate the intensive record of exhibitors this 12 months, we’ve put collectively a brief record of the cubicles we’re most excited to take a look at at Bar Convent Brooklyn this 12 months.

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Chinola Contemporary Fruit Liqueurs

Chinola’s passionfruit and mango liqueurs have made fairly the splash within the bartending world over the previous few years. The model simply launched its first Pineapple-based liqueur that’s produced within the Dominican Republic utilizing contemporary Dominican-grown fruit and a regionally distilled rum base. It’s a can’t-miss for anybody with even a passing curiosity in tropical cocktails.

Wild Frequent Tequila

Agave fans can go to the Wild Frequent sales space to pattern their extremely anticipated new añejo tequila. Distilled on the famend Cascahuín distillery utilizing conventional strategies, this 94-proof tequila is aged for 14 months in ex-bourbon barrels. In case you’re not but conversant in Wild Frequent, be sure you attempt their different expressions, particularly the blanco.

Nikaido Shochu

In recent times, Japanese shochu has quietly made its approach into cocktail packages throughout the nation, providing a lower-ABV base spirit and distinctive flavors for bartenders to discover. For these taken with making an attempt a 100% barley shochu from a family-owned firm with practically 160 years of historical past, cease by the Nikaido Shochu sales space and provides this conventional Japanese spirit a attempt. To be taught much more about shochu, be sure to take a look at the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Affiliation sales space.

Acrónimo Spirits

Whereas not as well known as tequila or mezcal, sotol, a Mexican spirit distilled from the Dasylirion plant, has additionally been rising steadily in recognition. Acrónimo, a brand new woman-owned model from Chihuahua, Mexico, is bringing historically crafted sotol to the U.S. market and increasing the class with a groundbreaking sotol gin. This distinctive spirit contains a sotol base infused with juniper and different botanicals native to Chihuahua, making it a really distinctive providing that is properly value looking for out alongside Acrónimo’s conventional sotol.

Haus Alpenz

For these on the hunt for distinctive bottles to spruce up their again bars, make it a precedence to cease by the Haus Alpenz sales space. This importer is finest recognized for bringing Smith & Cross Jamaican Rum, Amaro Cappelletti, St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram, and John D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum to the US, however their portfolio is stuffed with different distinctive bottles. The key ingredient to your subsequent cocktail creation could also be discovered right here.

Campari America

After the Aperol Spritz and Negroni Sbagliato craze of the previous few years, most bartenders are seemingly all too conversant in Campari and Aperol. It’d really feel just like the Campari sales space is skipable, however there guarantees to be extra from the whole Campari portfolio than simply the acquainted aperitivo liqueurs and amaros. Ultimately 12 months’s BCB, the Wild Turkey crew shocked attendees by sharing samples of the extremely allotted and sought-after Russell’s Reserve 13-year and the model new 15-year expression. Maybe they’ll have extra surprises once more this 12 months.

Tequila Ocho

Amongst agave fans, Tequila Ocho is among the most revered producers in Jalisco. Maestro tequilero Carlos Camarena, together with late co-founder Tomas Estes, created Tequila Ocho with an intent to discover the terroir of Blue Weber agave grown in several estates. Making an attempt two vintages of the model’s blanco or reposado tequilas side-by-side is an illuminating expertise in agave terroir that may’t be missed.

The model additionally lately launched a extremely lauded 96-proof Añejo tequila that was aged in barrels from Heaven Hill distillery that previously held Outdated Fitzgerald bourbon.

Bardstown Bourbon Firm and Inexperienced River

These two Kentucky bourbon distilleries embody two approaches to bourbon making, regardless of sharing the identical possession. Bardstown Bourbon Firm takes a contemporary strategy, the place mixing, transparency, and experimentation are all on the core of what they do. Inexperienced River takes a extra conventional strategy, offering high-quality whiskeys at a worth that makes them the proper match behind any bar.

Hold your fingers crossed that Bardstown Bourbon Firm may have pours obtainable of their new Cathedral French Oak Distillery Reserve launch. This distinctive bourbon was aged in barrels made from 300-year-old French oak that was harvested from the identical groves because the wooden used to revive Notre Dame Cathedral. If that’s not obtainable, something from their progressive Collaborative Sequence ought to do the trick.