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Build Cocktail Kit With Optional Virtual Cocktail Class / Happy Hour

CAD $50.00

Looking to build a custom cocktail kit for your next virtual happy hour or for a virtual cocktail class? You are in the right place!

Our virtual cocktail class / happy hour provides a strong platform to learn to execute delicious libations, and provides a jump off point for creative experimentation with different drink flavour combinations.

The highlights of our virtual cocktail making experience / happy hour includes:

Over 60 Cocktails to choose from for your Virtual Cocktail Class / Happy Hour (Click Here To View Details Of Shaken And Stirred Drink Options).
Drink ingredients for two drinks including: liquor, syrups, bitters, mixes, fresh fruits, herbs, vegetables, soda, garnishes, and other specialty ingredients as required.
Optional curated set of best practice cocktail bartender tools and equipment.
Optional two piece cocktail glassware for selected drinks.
A cocktail making guide with key how to skills and recipes (great for self facilitated drink making).
Optional live virtual cocktail class / happy hour which is a great experience for the home or corporate event, and also makes a great gift!
Delivery available to multiple addresses through our concierge support by either emailing us or calling us at 1-877-712-9686.
Optional note card to deliver a special message to the recipient.

Self Directed Drink Making Using Guide Or Virtual Cocktail Class *

We offer self facilitated drink making using our cocktail making guide, or an expert facilitated virtual cocktail making class / happy hour. More details on class options and pricing are below under the section “Virtual Cocktail Class Frequently Asked Questions”.

Stirred Drink Selection For Cocktail Kit *

Select the stirred drink you would like to add to your cocktail kit. If you want to do a virtual mixology class / happy hour and you are not sure which drink you would like to make for the class select “Not Sure – Will Confirm After Order Placed”, and we will reach out to confirm your drink selections before your class / happy hour. More details on the stirred drink options/ingredients are below under the section “Virtual Cocktail Experience Highlights”.

Shaken Drink Selection For Cocktail Kit *

Select the shaken drink you would like to add to your cocktail kit. If you want to do a virtual mixology class / happy hour and you are not sure which drink you would like to make for the class select “Not Sure – Will Confirm After Order Placed”, and we will reach out to confirm your drink selections before your class. More details on the stirred drink options/ingredients are below under the section “Virtual Cocktail Experience Highlights”.

Cocktail Kit For One Or Two *

For each cocktail kit ordered we can include ingredients for one or two people. More details on ingredients included are under the section “Virtual Cocktail Experience Highlights”.

Additional Upgrades

Cocktail Glassware

Select if you would like to include the recommended glassware for your two cocktails selected including: old fashioned glass, coupe glass, highball glass, martini glass. flute glass, or wine glass.

Cocktail Tools Sets

Select if you would like to include cocktail tools and equipment. Product details for options are below.

Cocktail Ice Cube Tray

Select if you would like to include a cocktail ice cube tray. Product details below.

Personalized Note Card

Include a personalized message on a note card.

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Virtual Online Cocktail Making Class / Happy Hour Details

Live Virtual Cocktail Making Class

Virtual Cocktail Class Overview

Our live cocktail classes are great if you are looking for a fun individual or group experience to build connection, spark creativity and conversation, and learn the basic knowledge and skills to make fantastic drinks. We look forward to providing you with an immersive, unique, and memorable cocktail making class.

The four topics we cover during the class include:

1. Engaging The Senses

2. The Tools Of The Trade

3. Drink Ingredients

4. Building A Drink

More details below on the four topics as well as answers to frequently asked questions.

1. Engaging The Senses

We will help you understand the five basic tastes of sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami, and how to leverage these basic tastes to make a terrific drink.

We will break down how the drink making process and how the drink itself can engage the five senses of touch, smell, taste, sight, and sound, and use these to create a deep emotional reaction.

We will also discuss drink pairing strategies with food, themes, and seasonality.

2. The Tools Of The Trade

Great quality equipment is a prerequisite for great quality drinks. We will help you understand the science of how the proper cocktail making equipment will help you improve the quality of your drinks.

We provide an overview of bar tool essentials, how to use them properly, and what attributes to look for in good quality equipment for your own use.

We also discuss tips for setting up a great home bar with consideration to space you are working with.

3. Drink Ingredients

Great quality ingredients are a prerequisite for great quality drinks. We will help you understand how various ingredients work together to create a tasty and well balanced drink including: fruits, vegetables, bitters, syrups, herbs, spices, soda, fruit juices, base spirits, modifiers, and ice.

We cover:

How drink ingredients are made.
How to select and prepare great quality ingredients
How to store your ingredients properly.

We offer optionally a cocktail class with a kit of ingredients.

4. Building a Drink

We will help you and your guests learn the fundamental techniques to prepare a great quality shaken and stirred drink.

We review core drink preparation concepts and provide hands-on experience with: measuring drink ingredients, glass rinsing, muddling, layering, zesting, garnishing, smoking, and straining.

Mastering these fundamental skills will help create a solid platform to build your own creations.

Frequently Asked Questions For Virtual Cocktail Class

What Drinks Do You Have Available To Choose From?

Participants can choose from over 60 different drinks to make during the virtual cocktail class.

We can optionally send cocktail or non-alcohol (mocktail) kits with all ingredients for two drinks including: liquor, syrups, bitters, mixes, fresh fruits, herbs, vegetables, soda, garnishes, and other specialty ingredients as required.

Click To View Virtual Cocktail Class Drink Options

When Are The Virtual Cocktail Classes?

The public virtual cocktail making classes are scheduled for the second and fourth Saturday of each month from 7pm to 830pm (EDT Time Zone).

The private virtual cocktail making class is individually scheduled for a convenient date and time for the participant(s).

After placing your order we will contact you to confirm your desired date of your online cocktail making class and provide the Zoom login information.

What Is The Cost Of Your Virtual Cocktail Workshop?

The pricing for a private cocktail workshop is $400 for unlimited guests.

How Do I Ship To Multiple Addresses?

If you need to ship to multiple addresses, please contact our concierge support by either emailing us or calling us at 1-877-712-9686.

What Platform Do You Use For the Virtual Cocktail Class?

We offer a online cocktail making class virtually using a video and audio conferencing platform called Zoom (Public and private classes) or a host provided platform (Private classes only).

Jigger Bartender Tool

A “free pour” refers to the style of pouring spirits or ingredients directly into a glass (mixing or otherwise). When free pouring it is difficult to achieve consistency for three reasons:

Various liquid drink ingredients have different levels of viscosity that impact the rate at which these travel through a pour spout and into the drink.
The person making the drinks is not typically making the same cocktails over and over again with the same ingredients allowing for the practice necessary to achieve the same results.
Cocktails typically have smaller amounts of multiple ingredients making free pouring accurately more difficult.

To help ensure drinks are made consistently tasty these need to be measured by volume. Measuring also allows you to more efficiently create new recipes or improve on existing ones.

The tool used often in cooking to properly measure ingredients would be measuring spoons or cups, and the cocktail equivalent tool is a measured jigger. A measured jigger is a mission critical tool for a cocktail starter set.

We selected the Barfly M37005 as our jigger of choice to help make the best bartender kit because of these benefits:

It has interior markings to accurately measure incremental amounts of 1⁄4, 1⁄2, 3⁄4, 1 1⁄2 oz.
It is made of stainless steel for extreme durability and easy cleaning.
It has an elongated design to support more accurate measurements and smooth pouring.
Its satin finish to maintain a great appearance with long term daily use.

Barfly M37005 Jigger Specs

Capacity	30 – 60 ml (1 – 2oz)
Internal Marking Lines	7.5ml, 15ml, 22.5ml, 30ml, 45ml (1⁄4, 1⁄2, 3⁄4, 1 1⁄2 oz)
Material	Stainless Steel
Dishwasher Safe	Yes

Stirred Cocktail Set Tools

Mixing Glass For The Best Bartender Kit

For stirred drinks the vessel which it is created in has a large impact on the finished cocktail.

We selected a Japanese-style mixing glass as a preferred choice to help make the best cocktail set because of these benefits:

It has a spout which makes pouring drinks easy.
Weight of the glass facilitates stability while stirring.
It has a stunning cut glass design with exceptional clarity to showcase the drink being crafted.
Easy cleaning and dishwasher safe.
Once chilled glass retains its temperature well.

Glass is a great insulator allowing it to retain its cold temperature well, however because of this attribute it takes a long time to get cold. For this reason you must always pre-chill your mixing glasses in the freezer or with ice and water before use.

Mixing Glass Specs

Height	15.2 cm (6“)
Bottom Diameter	8.9 cm (3.5”)
Top Diameter	11.4 cm (4”)
Capacity	717 ml (24.25 oz)
Material	Glass
Dishwasher Safe	Yes

Julep Strainers For A Cocktail Making Class

The julep strainer was originally crafted in the mid 1800s to hold back the crushed ice while enjoying a classic mint julep cocktail in a Julep tin cup.

We selected the julep strainer as the preferred choice of strainer for our curated stirred cocktail tool set because it fits nicely in a mixing glass, holding back the ice as its tiny holes allow the liquid to pass through evenly and quickly to help avoid air bubbles to maintain that silky texture.

Julep Strainer Specs

Length	15.6 cm (6 1/8“)
Handle Length	7.6 cm (3” )
Strainer Length	8.3 cm (3 1/4“)
Strainer Width	5.9 cm (2 15/16”)
Material	Stainless Steel
Dishwasher Safe	Yes

Bar Spoon For Virtual Cocktail Class With Kit

A great bar spoon allows you to stir quickly and smoothly without adding air bubbles to the drink to ensure a silky smooth mouthfeel.

Our long-handled Japanese-style barspoon was selected as the preferred choice to help make the best bar tools set because of these benefits:

Its extra long length facilitates smoother stirring than conventional shorter bar spoons.
The tightly spiraled handle allows the spoon to be kept in a consistent place in the hand while stirring and is comfortable.
It has a standard 5 ml (1 teaspoon) bowl size.
The teardrop-shaped weight on the end offers a great counterbalance for smooth and fast stirring.
Made of a single piece of stainless steel for superior durability and sanitation.

Bar Spoon Specs

Length	40 cm (15.75”)
Spoon Bowl Size	5 ml (1 teaspoon)
Material	Stainless Steel
Dishwasher Safe	Yes

Shaken Cocktail Set

Bartender Shaker For Your Drink Mixing Set

A good quality shaker is a critical piece of equipment for a cocktail mixer set. The 18 and 28 oz weighted stainless steel shaker tins were selected as the preferred choice to help make the best cocktail set for these benefits:

All metal cocktail shaker with great thermal conductivity to chill drinks fast.
Forms an airtight seal when the two tins are pressed together, so liquid does not escape while shaking.
The pliable nature of stainless steel makes it easy to separate the two tins when ready to pour the drink making it great for speed.
The bartender cocktail shaker is made of stainless steel for superior durability and sanitation.

Bartender Shaker Set Specs

Height	12.7 cm (5”) and 17.8 cm (7”)
Capacity	532 ml (18 oz) and 828 ml (28 oz)
Material	Stainless Steel
Dishwasher Safe	Yes

Hawthorne Strainer For Bartender Tool Kit

The Hawthorne strainer goes back to the year 1892, when a patent was issued to its inventor, William Wright, and Dennis P. Sullivan, who owned Boston’s Hawthorne Café.

Our hawthorne strainer features bilateral slots that can direct the flow of liquid into two streams allowing you to make two drinks at once. It also features a vertical tab that allows you to adjust the flow of the liquid as you pour.

This tool is a necessity for a home bartender kit.

Hawthorne Strainer Specs

Length	15.2 cm (6”)
Width	12.1 cm (4 ¾”)
Material	Stainless Steel
Dishwasher Safe	Yes

Fine Mesh Strainer For Cocktail Bar Kit

To maintain a silky smooth mouth feel a shaken cocktail requires a two stage straining process to eliminate small chips of ice, and any other tiny particles from ingredients such as muddled fruit and herbs. We include a stainless steel fine mesh strainer to eliminate these smaller particles.

Another benefit of the fine mesh strainer is that it helps to aerate the head of the cocktail more when used in combination with the hawthorne strainer.

Fine Mesh Strainer Specs

Length	8.75”
Diameter	2”
Material	Stainless Steel
Dishwasher Safe	Yes

Stirred And Shaken Cocktail Set

Fully loaded? That is the term we use to describe our shaken and stirred cocktail set. This set incorporates all the elements from the stirred and shaken cocktail sets above.

This is the best choice if you are looking for a comprehensive professional set to build almost any cocktail.

Cocktail Ice Cube Tray

The amount of ice that melts in a length of time is proportional to how much heat is transferred into the ice. The heat transferred into the ice is directly proportional to the surface area exposed to the environment. A larger ice cube has less surface area proportionally to its volume than a smaller cube, so therefore it melts much more slowly.

Due to the aforementioned we offer a large cocktail cube ice tray for our set to help make good quality ice for a home cocktail bar cart.

A silicone large cube tray was selected as the preferred choice for our set for these benefits:

Made of durable silicone.
Option to add to a drinks aesthetic or taste by freezing ingredients inside of the cubes such as juices, herbs, and flowers.

Cold water has more trapped gasses than hot water, so to help improve the clarity of and density of your ice we recommend using hot water to fill the tray. Ice with lots of air bubbles will break down more rapidly while making or enjoying a drink which may lead to over dilution of the drink flavours.

We also recommend avoiding stacking ice cube trays on top of each other while in the freezer. The trays in the middle produce cloudy ice because they freeze almost equally from all sides trapping the most impurities and air bubbles from gases.

Ice Cube Tray Specs

Number Of Cubes	15 Cubes
Cube Size	1.25” Square Size
Length	7 ⅜”
Width	4.5”
Height	1.25”
Dishwasher Safe	Yes

Delivery Across Ontario And Canada

You can schedule your order to arrive on a specific date at checkout.

For orders placed before 5pm, we offer next day delivery through our local couriers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and surrounding cities below in Ontario including:

Ajax, Aurora, Brampton, Brantford, Burlington, Caledon, Cambridge, Guelph, Halton Hills, Hamilton, King City, Kitchener, Markham, Milton, Mississauga, Newmarket, Oakville, Oshawa, Pickering, Richmond Hill, Toronto (Downtown Core, East End, East York, Etobicoke, North York, North End, Old Toronto, Scarborough, West End, York), Vaughan, Waterloo, Whitby, Woodbridge.

Currently our professional bartender kit is not available on Amazon.