Overview Brooklyn Cocktail Fest is a tasting festival at Industry City in Sunset Park where the pours are finished cocktails rather than neat spirits, and guests vote on which brand's cocktail wins the room's competition. In 2025 more than 100 mixologist-built drinks were on the floor across two three-and-a-half-hour sessions on a Saturday in November, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. Evan Berman Productions produces it, and it sits under the Cocktail Fest USA name with a Jersey City Cocktail Fest and an NYC Holiday Cocktail Fest; the same team runs the Brooklyn Wine Festival and the NYC Whiskey and Spirits Festival. On site The 2025 festival filled Industry City's Building 5 on 35th Street. A ticket covers unlimited cocktail tastings in a souvenir glass for the session, with local, national and international distilleries and bars mixing at their own stations: Den of Thieves Whiskey, Doce Mezcal, Fort Hamilton, Il Dottore Gin, Natterjack Irish Whiskey and Ovo Vodka were among them. Master distillers and bartenders talk through how the spirits are made and what is moving in mixology. Live music and interactive games run alongside, and food is sold by vendors such as Angry Archies, Mozzarepas and Chavas Empanadas. Audience Guests taste each spirit inside a mixed drink, ask the person who made it how it was built, and then vote on the one they liked best, so a brand's table is judged by the same crowd it is pouring for. The producer says many of its guests come back from event to event and keeps them on an email list of about 50,000. Brand presence Distilleries and bars pour at their own tables and compete for the guest vote. On top of the table, a partner can put its logo on the souvenir glass every guest drinks from (with four weeks' lead time), on every wristband, or on every photo-booth picture, each one emailed to the guest with the logo on it. A 10-by-15-foot seminar space with signage and a portable microphone holds up to two seminars a session. Platinum and Gold packages bundle these with a premium location and complimentary tickets, and dedicated emails and boosted social posts can be added.