Still on the Hill – Breckenridge Craft Spirits Festival

A group of our friends were looking for an excuse to spend the weekend in Breckenridge before it got too cold and someone randomly stumbled across the «Still on the Hill: Spirits Festival» online. We had very little information to go off of so we took a leap of faith, booked the condo, and bought the tickets online. For all of $ 25 we weren’t sure if we were stumbling into a bust of an event or not, and visions of standing around in the cold amongst folding tables drinking small thimbles full of cheap vodka danced in our heads. As it turns out the event is apparently one of the best kept secrets in Colorado! The event was indoors at a great venue, extremely well run with a large turnout, live band, food, and tons of extremely attentive spirit distributors exhibiting. Instead of just sampling straight liquor all night virtually every distillery has signature cocktails for you to sample, and some of the were just mind blowingly delicious. Some of my favorite distilleries in attendance were Peach Street (the big winners), Forecastle Rum, Montanya, Stranahan’s, and Black Canyon (I still fantasize about their whiskey-​rita). All in all it was an amazing event and quite possibly the best $ 25 I’ve ever spent. Don’t hesitate to grab your friends, book a condo, and come up for this event in 2014!