'Good Taste Thursday' is a chance to shop and sip

Select Downtown Pittsburgh retailers will be offering great deals and free tasting events from 5 to 8 p.m. July 26 as part of the Good Taste Thursday event. Each store will be paired with a local distillery, winery or brewery and offer drink samples as well as discounts on merchandise.

Just by visiting one of the shops you will be entered into a drawing to win a basket of cheer, featuring donations from all of your favorite small businesses and local libations. For every purchase, receive additional chances to win.

Participating businesses include:

• Inkwell Stationers and Pittsburgh Winery
• Social Status and Wigle Whiskey
• Heinz Healy’s and Penn Brewery
• Joseph Orlando and Mindful Brewing Co.
• Larrimor’s and Pennsylvania Pure Distilleries, featuring Boyd & Blair Potato Vodka and BLY Silver Rum
• Love, Pittsburgh and Maggie’s Farm Rum
• Boutique La Passerelle and Threadbare Cider and Meade
• Steel City and a company to be determined

Details: downtownpittcburgh.com

JoAnne Harrop is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact JoAnne at 724-853-5062 or jharrop@tribweb.com or via Twitter @Jharrop_Trib.