


Wood Hat Spirits @ SmokeFest 2025
Annual Charity Event featuring whiskey, cigars, an amateur/backyard BBQ contest, and live music!

Wood Hat Spirits @ Ozarks Bacon Fest 2025
The 8th Annual Ozarks Bacon Fest Returns: A Tribute to Bacon, Bourbon & Beer.
Presented by Springfield Trading Company and The Ozark Empire Fairgrounds, the festival promises to deliver an unforgettable experience in a “bacon wonderland” where attendees can sample bacon-themed dishes crafted by the Ozarks’ finest chefs. From savory snacks to unique bacon-infused creations, there will be something for every bacon lover. Guests will also enjoy a variety of beer and bourbon tastings to complement the flavors of the festival.
In addition to great food and drinks, the festival will feature live music and an opportunity to shop from local and regional vendors offering unique products to enhance every foodie’s experience, both in and out of the kitchen.
General Admission: A limited number of 600 tickets will be available for this exciting event.
For more information, please visit www.ozarksbaconfest.com

Wood Hat Spirits @ Best of MO Market
Shop more than 150 vendors of handcrafted items, locally produced food, and much more at this beloved fall festival.
The Best of Missouri Market® features food, crafts, native plants, herbs, beer, wine, craft spirits, custom jewelry, and more.


Wood Hat Spirits @ Brew in the Lou
• • Tickets on Sale 8/1/25 • •
LESA’s 13th Annual “Brew in the Lou” Festival, a Big Blue Spark production, will offer one-stop tasting of St. Louis’s best beer, wine, spirits, homebrew and food favorites when it returns to Francis Park, Saturday October 11, 2025, from 1-5 p.m. Over 80 tasting and vendor stations will line the banks of The Lily Pond, featuring local, regional and national craft breweries, distilleries and wineries.

Wood Hat Spirits @ Centralia Pumpkin Fest
Centralia MO Pumpkin Fest-Community fun for all ages

Wood Hat Spirits @ Kimmswick Apple Butter Festival
Come to our small community and shop at our more than 30 unique shops, eat any of our four restaurants with plenty of outdoor sitting areas. The streets and grass fields will be lined with hundreds of homemade craft, direct sales, corporate sponsor and food booths. There is something for everyone!


Wood Hat Spirits @ Cole County Fall Festival
ONE DAY ONLY!!!
Vendors selling crafts of all sorts - right here in Jefferson City.
$3 gate admission, 13 and up
Free admission, 12 and under
Sponsored by the University of Missouri Extension Cole County Council. Proceeds support MU Extension educational programming and the 4-H Foundation of Cole County.


Wood Hat Spirits @ MO Bourbon Festival
Gather your friends and make your way to Hermann for the exciting Missouri Bourbon Festival, taking place on August 2nd. Must be 21 years old to attend.
Purchase your ticket through Copper Mule at 573-409-0007 or drop by prior to the event. Limited tickets available. The event is expected to sell out in advance. No refunds or transfers.
Your ticket includes tastings from Missouri distilleries in your complimentary Glencairn glass etched with festival logo.
There will be a variety of distilleries from across the state offering tastings, drinks, and product for sale. The festival will host educational seminars, food, music, and games.

Wood Hat Spirits @ Kimmswick Apple Butter Festival 2024
Visit with Wood Hat Spirits the last weekend of October at The Apple Butter Festival (Kimmswick). This festival is the largest celebration Kimmswick has annually drawing over 100,000 visitors. Come enjoy the small town ambiance, stroll through their streets lined with 500 – 600 food, drink and craft vendors. Also enjoy lots of live entertainment throughout the town including bluegrass, country rock, and dulcimer music.

Wood Hat Spirits @ Ackley's Cigar Lounge Event
Exact times + Event details coming soon!

Wood Hat Spirits @ Brew in the Lou Festival 2024
Join Wood Hat Spirits at LESA’s 12th Annual “Brew in the Lou” Festival fundraiser, a Big Blue Spark production. This years event offers one-stop tasting of St. Louis’s best beer, wine, spirits and food favorites when it returns to Francis Park, Saturday October 12, 2024, from 1-5 p.m. Nearly 100 tasting and vendor stations will line the banks of The Lily Pond, featuring local, regional and national craft breweries, distilleries and wineries. Ticket sales will begin August 1st. Follow along HERE for all event details.

Wood Hat Spirits @ Best of MO Market (MO Botanical Gardens)
Come visit us at Wood Hat Spirits’ booth all weekend while you shop more than 120 of the region's best vendors of handcrafted items, locally produced food, and much more at this beloved fall festival. The Best of Missouri Market® features food, crafts, native plants, herbs, beer, wine, craft spirits, custom jewelry, and more. Tickets available beginning July 9th through MO Botanical Gardens’ Event page HERE.

Wood Hat Spirits @ Boonville's 2024 Sippin Strollin Rock n' Rollin
Come visit with us at this year’s 2024 Sippin' Strollin' Rockin' & Rollin' in Downtown Boonville on Saturday 28th. More fun with more Sippin', more Strollin', more Rockin', more Rollin'. 3:00 for VIP’s and 4:00 with General Admission. The afternoon fun will be followed by night music with The Norm Ruebling Band! Follow the event’s FB page for updated details.

Wood Hat Spirits @ SmokeFest 2024
Join us this fall for Hog’s Heads 2024 SmokeFest Annual Charity Event featuring whiskey, cigars, an amatuer BBQ contest, and live music! To purchase tickets & for more details click HERE.

Wood Hat Spirits @ Sipping Saturday: Augusta Winery
Join us for some easy Summer sippin'!
The 2nd Saturday of every month (Jun-Sept) Augusta Winery's Wine & Beer Garden will be open late to host sips from local distilleries and breweries, live music or other entertainment, local vendors to shop, featured cocktails, giveaways and more!
These events are FREE to attend!
Bring your own food, order up a pizza to carryout from one of their sisters Balducci Vineyards or Montelle Winery, or they'll have a variety of snacks available to purchase along with wine, soft drinks, and cocktails.
Come out Sept. 14th to join Wood Hat Spirits as one of their featured distiller's that evening!
See you there ♫

Wood Hat Spirits @ Classic Cocktail Party 2024
Three hours of live music and cocktails in historic Lafayette Square Park, featuring local craft distilleries from Missouri and Illinois.

Gary's 80 Birthday Bash!
Come celebrate with us as we honor our beloved Wood Hat Spirits founder/owner, Gary Hinegardner, for his 80th Birthday!!
Rain or Shine, come by the distillery anytime between 10AM-5PM. This is an open house event, so feel free to hang out for the day, or even stop by for a quick ‘hello,’ we would love to see you. ☺
There will be a special presentation, however, at 2PM; we recommend overlapping your visit around then, so as not to miss it!
COME HUNGRY. Bucky’s Food Truck will be on-site serving homestyle sandwiches + a booth for fresh popped Kettle-Corn (free with ticket)… mmmmm!!!
LIVE. Watch as JoHannes Michelsen, inventor of the wood turned hat, turns one right before your eyes! He will also have special ordering available- and a limited number of JoHannes’ miniature hats for sale.
TOUR. Open-House style distillery tours available throughout the day of the event.
TASTE. Tastings (including unreleased items) will be available directly out of barrels. Pick a barrel & take home cases of whiskey!
DISCOUNT. Empty seasoned barrels will be discounted down to only $100 & available for purchase.
♦FEATURED NEW RELEASE: 1st EVER 10-YR Single Barrel, Cask Strength Rubenesque, 144 proof♦
*ft. commemorative hand-turned Wood Hat stoppers
$224.00/bottle - for only as long as they last. {only about 100 bottles!}
$20.00 for a 1/2oz pour, includes Glencairn glass.
OTHER NEW RELEASES: including White Dog Whiskey + so much more!!
***Your $10 ticket will be given back to you in the form of a $10 discount toward any item available for purchase on the day of the event ☺
Follow our social media pages + this Event page for all of the details as they are released.
Questions? Please message us/comment on our posts/or call the distillery. We can’t wait to see you there!!

Wood Hat Spirits @ MO Bourbon Festival
The annual Missouri Bourbon Festival will be hosted this year by Copper Mule distillery in Hermann, MO. To purchase your ticket you will contact Copper Mule at 573-409-0007 or drop by prior to the event. Limited tickets available. The event is expected to sell out in advance. No refunds or transfers. Your ticket includes tastings from Missouri distilleries in your complimentary Glencairn glass etched with festival logo. There will be a variety of distilleries from across the state (including Wood Hat Spirits!) offering tastings, drinks, and product for sale. The festival will host educational seminars, food, music, and games. One of our favorite events of the year; we look forward to celebrating 2024 with you!

Wood Hat Spirits @ Second Saturday: Augusta Winery & Beer Garden
Join us for some easy Summer sippin'!
A monthly event, held in their Wine & Beer Garden every 2nd Saturday June-September, Augusta Winery hosts a Saturday Sip night. Wood Hat Spirits will be a featured distillery for the month of July. The evening will include available sips of Wood Hat products, live music or other entertainment (all vendor lists are available through Augusta Winery), local vendors to shop, featured cocktails, giveaways and more! Snacks, wine, soft drinks & cocktails will also be available for purchase. The event itself is FREE to attend.

Wood Hat Spirits @ ABV Barrel Shop: 2024 Mini Whiskey Festival
To celebrate the second anniversary of ABV Barrel Shop they are hosting a Mini Whiskey Festival that will include 14 different brands on-site pouring & interacting (COME SEE US!). You can reserve one of four different time slots to help keep crowding to a minimum & create a better experience. Bonus: your ticket will include a FREE Wee Glencairn! To purchase tickets, visit ABV Barrel’s Events page HERE & select your preferred time reservation.

Farmers and Artisans Market
Farmers and Artisans Market to be Held on the distillery grounds the first Saturday of every month May through October from 10am - 2pm. Sip and stroll while supporting local small businesses. Fresh meat, eggs and produce, jams, jellies, as well as handcrafted one of kind art, leather and wood works.

Farmers and Artisans Market
Farmers and Artisans Market to be Held on the distillery grounds the first Saturday of every month May through October from 10am - 2pm. Sip and stroll while supporting local small businesses. Fresh meat, eggs and produce, jams, jellies, as well as handcrafted one of kind art, leather and wood works.

Bottling Dinner Party
Volunteers will receive 20% off their purchase made the day of the event. Dinner and Cocktails will be provided.

Bottling Dinner Party
Volunteers will receive 20% off their purchase made the day of the event. Dinner and Cocktails will be provided.

Cigar Class Presented by Hogs Head Cigars
Join us for an afternoon of cigar education, cocktails and stooges by the fire. Colleen Murphy, certified tobacconist and owner of Hogshead Cigars in Hermann, MO will be presenting an educational experience on how to purchase, store and smoke cigars. After class we will put our new knowledge to practical use and sit outside and relax with a cocktail and cigar. Tickets are $55 and includes one cigar, two craft cocktails and light snacks.

Bottling Dinner Party
Volunteers will receive 20% off their purchase made the day of the event. Dinner and Cocktails will be provided.

Farmers and Artisans Market
Farmers and Artisans Market to be Held on the distillery grounds the first Saturday of every month May through October from 10am - 2pm. Sip and stroll while supporting local small businesses. Fresh meat, eggs and produce, jams, jellies, as well as handcrafted one of kind art, leather and wood works. Bloody Mary’s and other seasonal cocktails also available.

Bottling Dinner Party
Volunteers will receive 20% off their purchase made the day of the event. Dinner and Cocktails will be provided.

Farmers and Artisans Market
Farmers and Artisans Market to be Held on the distillery grounds the first Saturday of every month May through October from 10am - 2pm. Sip and stroll while supporting local small businesses. Fresh meat, eggs and produce, jams, jellies, as well as handcrafted one of kind art, leather and wood works. Bloody Mary’s and other seasonal cocktails also available.