Libation Calibration: A Hands-On Cocktail Workshop
with April Wachtel
In this era of the modern cocktail bar, the humble mixed drink is often elevated to a form of art. Have you ever taken a sip of a brilliantly balanced and flavorful cocktail and wondered how you could recreate such delicious results at home? We’re here to help.
Libation Calibration is an interactive cocktail workshop intended to help you create perfect drinks based on trade-tested strategies for combining flavors. We’ll begin by exploring the five elements of taste, sampling alcoholic and non-alcoholic ingredients that bring each category to life. We’ll then taste cocktails that represent each individual element as well as those that blend the flavors together, as we discuss the ever-important, yet often illusive, element of balance.
Finally, we’ll create and taste bespoke cocktails as a group, to test and refine our newfound skills.