Mulcahy's in Wantagh cancels Kentucky Derby bourbon festival
Try a selection of bourbons at Mulcahy's in Wantagh May 4. Credit: Newsday/Erica Marcus
Mulcahy’s in Wantagh has canceled its May 4 Derby Bourbon Festival, which was to have given Long Islanders a place to watch an afternoon’s worth of races on more than 20 TVs, said John Murray, whose family owns the venue.
The event was to have featured half-ounce bourbon samples, from 4 to 7 p.m., of more than a dozen bourbons including Whistle Pig Piggy Back, Hudson Distilleries Bright Lights, Woodford, Michter's, Great Jones, Dogfish Head Whiskey, Horse Soldier (founded and owned by former Green Berets) and Blackened, a whiskey that is not technically a bourbon (it contains rye) but is a joint venture with Metallica, aged in brandy barrels while being blasted with the heavy-metal band’s music.
Tickets, which were sold in advance for $59-$99, will be automatically refunded, according to a message posted on the bar's website.
