Aprons optional. Shakers essential.
Ready, Steady, Shake by Amuse Booze is a hands-on cocktail masterclass inspired by the spirit of the classic teatime cooking show — only this time, the ingredients are spirits, mixers, garnishes and ice.
Across the afternoon, you’ll become a Liquidchef, learning how to balance flavour, match ingredients, use proper cocktail techniques and make your drinks look every bit as good as they taste. Rather than simply following recipes, you’ll be creating your own four-course drinks menu from scratch, shaking, stirring and tasting your way through each stage.
Expect plenty of guidance, a little creative chaos and the chance to find out whether your instincts behind the bar are as good as you think they are.
About the Experience
Your Amuse Booze host will guide you through the building blocks of a great cocktail before handing over the creative reins.
You’ll learn how sweetness, acidity, bitterness, alcohol, dilution and texture work together, then use those principles to start creating your own drinks. We’ll explore how different spirits behave, how to choose complementary flavours and how small changes can completely transform a cocktail.
Along the way, you’ll practise essential techniques including shaking, stirring, building and finishing a drink, as well as discovering how garnishes, glassware and presentation can turn something good into something memorable.
By the end, you won’t just know how to make a cocktail.
You’ll know how to build one.
What to Expect
- Create your own four-course cocktail menu
- Learn how to balance sweet, sour, bitter, strong and refreshing flavours
- Discover how different spirits, mixers and ingredients work together
- Get hands-on with essential cocktail techniques including shaking and stirring
- Learn when to shake, when to stir and why it makes a difference
- Explore flavour matching and how to build a drink from an idea rather than a recipe
- Discover how dilution, temperature and texture affect the finished cocktail
- Get creative with garnishes and presentation
- Taste, tweak and refine your drinks as you go
- Enjoy expert guidance throughout without losing the fun of experimenting
- Leave with practical skills you can actually use behind your own bar at home
Your Four-Course Drinks Menu
Rather than being handed four finished cocktails, you’ll build them yourself.
Each round will focus on a different style, technique or flavour challenge, giving you the chance to put what you’ve learned into practice as the session develops.
You might find yourself creating something bright and refreshing, something short and spirit-forward, something adventurous and unexpected, or a final showstopper designed entirely around your own flavour choices.
There are no identical menus here.
Part of the fun is seeing where everyone ends up.
Who Is This For?
- Cocktail lovers who want to learn how drinks are actually constructed
- Anyone bored of simply following recipes
- Groups of friends looking for something hands-on and sociable
- Curious drinkers who enjoy experimenting with flavour
- Home bartenders wanting to improve their technique
- Anyone who has ever watched a cocktail being made and thought, “I could do that”
- Complete beginners — no previous bartending experience required
Ready. Steady. Shake.
This isn’t a demonstration where you sit and watch somebody else do all the interesting bits.
You’ll be behind the shaker.
You’ll choose the flavours.
You’ll make the decisions.
And occasionally, you may discover why professional bartenders measure things.
By the end of the session, you’ll have worked your way through four drinks, developed your own flavour combinations and picked up the skills to start creating cocktails rather than simply copying them.
Ready? Steady? Shake.
Event Details
When: Saturday 13th March 2027 12:30pm
Where: Loki Great Western Arcade
Price: £45
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