Ye Olde Tavern Tours

09/11/2026

History, harbor views, and a little rum. ⚓🥃

Join us aboard the Denis Sullivan for Cocked & Boozy with Brooke Barbier, a revolutionary book talk and rum tasting during the Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival!

📚 Book Talk + Q&A
🥃 Rum tasting by Rum Tropic
🍴 Hors d’oeuvres by Favorites Bistro Bar
✍🏾 Author signing
📅 Saturday, September 12 | 5 PM
📍 City Pier, New London
🎟️ $35 per person

Come for the history, stay for the rum.

08/13/2026

Thank you Chronicle on WCVB Channel 5 for featuring Ye Olde Tavern Tours and our founder, Brooke, on last night’s show! 🍻

Ye Olde Tavern Tours and Boston Detective Tours offer two unconventional ways to explore the city's past, from Revolutionary-era drinking spots to notorious criminal cases

07/16/2026

Food & W**e Food profiled Ye Olde Tavern Tours in an article today! Our tours bring history to life with b**r and taverns, and we’re thrilled they got to experience that! 🍻 And it’s wonderful that some of our favorite places are also highlighted: Bell In Hand Tavern Dorchester Brewing Company Link in stories

07/16/2026

Food & W**e profiled Ye Olde Tavern Tours in an article today! Our tours bring history to life with b**r and taverns, and we’re thrilled they got to experience that!

Boston’s Revolutionary-era taverns were important gathering spots where political ideas spread, alliances formed, and plans for events like the Boston Tea Party took shape. Follow along historian Brooke Barbier’s Ye Olde Tavern Tour to see how alcohol influenced colonial society, politics, and t...

07/15/2026

Thank you NBC10 Boston and The Hub Today for having Brooke on the show rbis morning to talk Cocked and Boozy and to make a historic cocktail that is perfect for the summer, grog!

Historian and author Brooke Barbier joins us to discuss the surprising role taverns and drinking culture played during the American Revolution. Plus, she shows us how to make a colonial-era “grog” inspired by her new book, Cocked and Boozy: An Intoxicating History of the American Revolution. NBC...

07/04/2026

Happy 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence! Hope you’re drinking historic cocktails and writing your signature very big today! 🥳

07/03/2026

If you want to throw a 4th of July party like it’s 1776, read Brooke’s article published exclusively in People!

'Cocked and Boozy' author and historian Brooke Barbier shares her top tips for throwing the perfect Independence Day bash in an exclusive essay for PEOPLE.

07/02/2026

Thank you The New York Times for featuring our owner, Brooke, in a story about colonial-era drinking and her new book, COCKED AMD BOOZY.

A summer of celebratory drinking is underway in the birthplace of the American Revolution. But however tipsy the tourists get, the founders probably had them beat.

06/29/2026