Cocktail Making Classes
Mixology Events is a versatile and diverse events company based in Covent Garden & Shoreditch. We’ve spent over a decade delivering cocktail-related events, such as our original cocktail making classes and cocktail bar hires.
As well as being able to host you in one of our range of purpose-built venues across London, we are able to host our 100% interactive classes pretty much anywhere you had in mind – from offices, to back gardens, to the grounds of Scottish Manor Houses.
Any Time, Any Place, For Any Group Size.
Mixology Events is pleased to announce that it is now proudly owned and operated by Masterclass Events.
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100% Hands-on Cocktail Making Class
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Any time you wish, 7 days a week
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For groups of any size
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4.9 Google Reviews
Group Enquiry
If you want to make a private booking for a group, or have any specific needs that need our attention, our enquiry form is the fastest route to the answers you need. Once completed, one of our team will be in touch.
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Buy Vouchers
If you’d like to buy a voucher as a gift, or are unsure which specific day to join us, this is your best route. Gift-wrapped and digital vouchers are available for public cocktail classes in London.
Please note that digital downloads are available on all vouchers!
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Book
You can book directly onto any public class through the calendar on our sister website, Masterclass Events. This includes our in-house public cocktail classes, held twice weekly in the heart of Covent Garden.
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Redeem
If you’ve received a voucher or treated yourself to one, you can redeem it on our sister website, Masterclass Events. This is also the place to redeem vouchers purchased from other sources.
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Multiple venues across London & the UK
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No more than 5 guests per cocktail bar station
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Our recommended class runs for two hours
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Every guest will make (and drink) 5 cocktails behind their own bar
Perfect Christmas Gifts
It's never too late for a gift voucher!
Our gift vouchers are valid for any session over a full year, making them an excellent present. Instantly receive a digital PDF voucher — perfect for those last-minute surprises.
We come to you
Over the past decade, we’ve taken our bars pretty much to all four corners of the UK, from the top of the Shard, to the Scottish highlands, through our mobile cocktail class and bar hire services. We handle everything for you from the moment of enquiry, including tuition, logistics, and even site visits, ensuring your event goes off without a hitch.
You come to us
It’s a purpose-built cocktail making environment, inside which there are a range of fully-equipped masterclass lounges. We also enjoy close relationships with a range of dedicated partner venues spanning the length and breadth of the capital and beyond, if you find yourselves unable to make it to Shoreditch.
Other Locations
We can host your cocktail making class or bar hire at one of our trusted venues, spanning the length and width of the capital the UK as a whole. We currently have venues across London, as well as Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, and Brighton, to name a few. If you’d like to organise a site visit to get a feel for one of our sites, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Group Enquiry
If you want to make a private booking for a group, or have any specific needs that need our attention, our enquiry form is the fastest route to the answers you need. Once completed, one of our team will be in touch.
Group / Private EnquiryVirtual Cocktail Classes
Inspired by the lockdown era, our virtual cocktail classes provide a much-needed environment in which to be sociable despite the current distances between us.
Buy Gift Vouchers
Perfect as a gift, or if you’re unsure on which specific date to join us. Gift-wrapped and posted or digitally downloadable, redeemable on any available session over the next 12 months.
Calendar
Browse and book yourselves on to upcoming in-house and virtual cocktail classes, or just get a feel for what’s coming your way over the next few months.
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This cocktail making experience was 10/10, we loved it. Danica was a lot of fun, engaged well with the group and made it a great evening for everyone!
Nathan Fletcher
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The cocktail experience we had was amazing, quirky set up Sam was brilliant very professional with a great fun element who kept 28 of us full engaged. More than recommend and hope to go again soon
Josie Cooke
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Tom and Ashley were incredible! A group of 10 of us came here after work and had such a great time. The cocktails tasted brilliant and the process was well explained. There was a great variety of alcohol and they don't scrimp on the shots! Will definitely be coming here again and would recommend to large groups for a great evening activity :)
Lavanya Loganathan
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I did a cocktail making class this Saturday for my sisters hen do and it was perfect. Our mixologist Ludwig was incredible, he was informative and fun and took great care of us all. I would highly recommend the experience. 10/10
Lucy Sutton
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We came to the cocktail making class as a work social. Firstly, the drinks we were making were all delicious and proper boozy. Secondly, the room and the whole building are absolutely stunning and such a lovely setting to be in. Most importantly, our mixologist, Marcus, was an absolute gem. His instructions were very clear and his trivia unmatched. He had unwavering patience despite how rowdy some of us got towards the end and such positive energy.
Highly highly recommend and will definitely be back soon!Agnes Bletard
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We had the best time making our cocktails! My dad treated me for my 40th birthday and I’ll never forget the experience. Big shout out to Danica who made it such a great and fun experience
Matthew Cordery
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Mobile Hire
Through our mobile bar hire service, our aim at Mixology Events is to bring high-quality cocktail bar service to any location within the UK.
Everything, from bar size, style, menu selection, staff outfits and more, is fully-customisable upon request. Get in touch with one of our event organisers to talk through your options.
Hen Parties
With only a small deposit to confirm the booking, and choice of a cocktail or prosecco reception, our classes have all the necessary ingredients for an ideal hen party! Any time, anywhere. We can come to you, or you can come to us. For groups of any size, your class is fully flexible. Learn to make 5 cocktails within a unique, purpose-built class set-up, whilst maintaining 100% interaction.
Mixology Guide
Our Mixology Guide has been designed as your one-stop shop. Whether you’re a bartender looking to brush up knowledge, or a total newcomer to drinking culture in general, there should be a little something in there for everyone. We’ve got articles, interviews, recipes, and even YouTube videos showing you how we make some of our favourite cocktails.
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Event Organisers
For all our cocktail-based events, we have a dedicated and personal team of event organisers on hand at flagship venue in Shoreditch. The same event organiser will stay with you from planning and booking your event, on the day and post-event.
Your more than welcome to come down visit our unique, purpose-built class set-up to have a look around, meet your dedicated event organiser, and stick around for a well-deserved cocktail afterwards, or we can organise a site visit to your preferred venue.
YOUR HOSTS
Our entire team, from bartenders to our head office, have years of experience in the industry, and with Mixology Events. They each go through rigorous training to learn how to deliver the best cocktail-based experiences on the market.
Not only this, each and every one of them are enthusiastic, friendly, and – generally – pretty lovely human beings to have around. Don’t just take our word for it, why not meet them for yourselves?
PHONE, EMAIL OR ORGANISE A SITE VISIT!
We understand the importance of verbal communication, and we know that some questions simply can’t wait for an email response.
That’s why if you’re considering booking an event, we encourage you to give us a call, organise a site visit, or come visit our team. That way we can discuss your ideas, since every event is unique.
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Case Studies
On three prodigiously pleasant weekends in July, August and September we set up in a leafy Georgian square in Bloomsbury to bring bitesize versions of our cocktail making masterclasses to the crowds at Cocktails In The City; a festival-style celebration of the capital’s cocktails, the ingredients that go into them and the people that create them.
This series of events is always a highlight of our calendar and over the years we’ve seen it grow in both size and popularity. 2022 marked the first time it’s been held three times in one summer, with each event taking place over an entire weekend in the picturesque Bedford Square, just a few hundred metres from The British Museum.
With a prime spot at the centre of the square, we assembled seven of our custom-built cocktail workshop bars and got ready to greet the public alongside stands occupied by more than twenty of London’s finest drinking establishments.
At each CITC we work in partnership with one or multiple spirit brands and create distinct cocktails that showcase why we like them and how we like to use them. This year we teamed up with Brockmans gin and 1800 tequila, designing a selection of twists on a classic cocktail that would accommodate and highlight the flavour of both these spirits: the daisy.
This pre-prohibition cocktail could be argued to be the template for the majority of modern sours. The daisy’s first incarnation appeared in print in the second edition of Jerry Thomas’s The Bartender’s Guide or How To Mix Drinks: The Bon Vivant’s Companion in 1876, as ‘the brandy daisy’: a mixture of brandy, Curaçao liqueur, gum syrup and lemon juice. Over the years though, variations of the daisy were created using almost every major spirit, from vodka, gin and white rum, to whisky and eventually tequila. In fact, ‘daisy’ translates to ‘margarita’ in Spanish, suggesting that the cardinal tequila cocktail started out as a humble tequila daisy.
This customisable touchstone of classic mixology provided the perfect blank slate for us to guide our guests not just through making a cocktail, but creating one. Attendees were invited to design their own daisy using either gin or tequila, lemon or lime juice, triple sec and one or more of a selection of specially crafted syrups made by TT Liquor’s bar manager and resident cocktail-chemist Sasa Ruvidić. Sasa used fresh fruit and whole spices to create the three syrups that were flavoured with pineapple & coriander seed, cucumber & chilli and fresh raspberry, each one working alongside either spirit to compliment and accentuate different aspects of their flavour profiles.
To allow as many people as possible to take part in this cocktail making experience, we slimmed our usual two hour, five drink class down to a one drink, fifteen minute crash course with all the interactivity, expertise and fun of a full-length session. Over the three weekends we taught over five hundred eager cocktail connoisseurs and got to rub shoulders with some of the leading pioneers and innovators in the industry, and even sample a few of their creations ourselves.
Cocktails In The City is going from strength to strength, organising more events than ever and we can’t wait to get involved with whatever they cook up next. In the meantime, if you want to take part in one of our fully interactive cocktail classes you can come down to our flagship venue, TT Liquor in Shoreditch, where we host twice-weekly public classes and private classes anytime, or we can come to you, bringing our full mobile set-up anywhere in the country to cater to groups of any size. Just visit our website or give us a call to find out more.
Cocktails and the sunshine are a match made in heaven, so we were thrilled to take our mobile cocktail making class service up to Herefordshire for a hen party the other week. They had rented a grand old manor near Welwyn for the day, boasting beautiful grounds, and the weather was absolutely perfect for alfresco cocktail making.
We pride ourselves on being able to take our mobile cocktail making classes on the road with us – to almost any destination – and we’ve done a number of events in the great outdoors now, all of which have been a great success.
It’s a great way to take advantage of the limited sunny days of the British summertime, and cocktail making classes also happen to be perfect hen party material – after six or so cocktails everyone seemed to be in good spirits!
We can host our cocktail making classes at our new permanent home, on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch or we can take our cocktail making classes to almost any external venue of your choice throughout London or the UK.
Replay Jeans approached Mixology Events to provide our mobile cocktail bar service for the star-studded launch of their “The Flexibles” collection at The Old Selfridges Hotel, just off Oxford Street in central London.
A host of A-list celebrities attended the event including international football star Neymar Jr. Neymar was joined by fellow Brazilian, supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio – who is an ambassador for the brand. A number of British stars were also present including Professor Green, Tinie Tempah and Daisy Lowe, who performed a DJ set for the night’s entertainment. The venue itself was suitably impressive – a cavernous industrial space situated on Orchard Street directly behind Selfridges’ flagship Oxford Street store.
Mixology provided 8 of our mobile cocktail bars, including a special VIP bar to ensure none of the attendees were kept waiting. We only used high-quality spirits, such as Belvedere Vodka, El Dorado Rum and Bombay Sapphire gin to make sure our cocktails were worthy of the illustrious guests.
Replay Jeans supplied every member of our team for the evening – which was thirty strong – with brand new Replay clothing that we were all allowed to keep, which was very much appreciated!
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Had a fantastic experience with Louana, really recommend the cocktail making experience, thank you
Helen Underwood
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I can only recommend Mixology Events! Charlotte was an amazing host and we had a lot of fun for our team event. The overall experience is well ran, and we discovered amazing cocktails that I will surely reproduce in the future. Thank you again Mixology Events and Charlotte!
Marianne
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We did the virtual cocktail making course as a team-building event and it was one of the most enjoyable events we’ve done. Very impressive kit delivered to each participant complete with spirits, mixers and cocktail making paraphernalia. Ludwig was our host, and he was hugely entertaining, knowledgeable, and, most importantly, fun!! The cocktails were great and the team loved it!! Highly recommended!
Zach Zigelbaum
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Brilliant experience with Kay as our mixologist. Very impressive selection of cocktails. Superb kits. Kay was very engaging and made the evening really enjoyable. Thanks Denplan for the hospitality !!
Marie-Louise Duthie
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Fantastic setup, great concept and really good fun. Emily our mixologist was so engaging, and she made the whole experience great fun, while also showing us some great drinks and tips. The package was superb and well worth it.
Carl Sims
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Mixology organised a great work team social for us last night… big shout out for our host, Emily who was terrific. She got the party going and guided us through 4 completely different cocktails. We all learned something along the way be it alcohol related trivia or how to make the prefect ice cube!
Caroline Seton
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We had a go with the virtual cocktail class and it was a fantastic experience. The mixology guy really knew his apples and this shone through during the class. I have taken what I learnt and remade the cocktails plenty of times. A definite must for stay at home fun!
Tom White
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The virtual cocktail class was awsome. Great idea to do something different on a evening. The mixologist was very informative. I would recommend giving this a go. Learnt a lot and we had a good laugh. Thanks guys keep up the solid work. Peace ✌
George White
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I am really impressed with it, first impressions are excellent. I am very pleased to see the limited use of plastic and think the small glass bottles with handwritten labels give it a lovely personal touch.
James Gould
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Fantastic presentation of the box itself and really useful information inside. I now know not only how to make great cocktails at home, but have unlocked the secret of home-made crystal clear ice. Thanks, guys!
Jack Johnson
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Probably the best cocktail class I’ve taken in the City. All other classes have involved a lot of watching and listening, whereas this class involved a lot more *doing* which, of course, equals a lot more *drinking* ;-)!
Victoria Hale
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We booked a team from Mixology to put on a 4-hour all-inclusive cocktail bar at our wedding a couple of weeks ago. They were a total hit. Everybody loved the cocktails, Nash and his team were great fun (and very patient with my drunken friends and family!), and I have had so many compliments about the whole idea ever since.
Patricia O’Donnell
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Brilliant fun! We had a big group of 20 people, males and females and a mixture of ages but everyone had a fantastic time and it is all everyone in our office is talking about this morning! We loved learning about the origins and history behind the cocktails before making them, and had a lot of fun coming up with our own cocktail at the end using the skills we had learned.
Sophie Hockridge
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Fantastic Service! Great staff and event planners! Drinks delicious! Thank you so much!
Gallery Fumi
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FAQ's
Generally, after a longer conversation with your event organiser about your event, you will need to put down a 30% deposit to confirm your booking and provide a home or company address to detail. This will all be sent over via email, along with the terms and conditions outlined. The final balance will be due a week before your class or event, generally once numbers are confirmed.
Once we have sent you the deposit invoice your event has been confirmed, therefore if you wish to cancel your event you must do this by email so we have written proof and you must do this at least 14 days prior to your event date to be eligible for a refund of your deposit. If you have booked your event with less than 7 days lead time, a cancellation must be received within 24 hours of your invoice being sent to avoid liability of payment.
The balance of your event must be paid 7 days before your event, if payment has not been made someone from our accounts team will contact you to make payment over the phone.
No, due to our licence under 18s will not be able to attend your class in any capacity – mocktails or not.
All your really need is an empty space for us to come and set up in, we can come to offices, houses, gardens, tents, rooftops… as long as we have the space and the access we can set up anywhere, you don’t need anything on your side at all.
We’d recommend you allow a space of about a meter and a half depth and a meter and a half width for each bar. That allows enough space for the bars to be set up and for people to stand behind them. The bars are assembled on site and pack down to be fairly compact so there’s no need to really worry about door-width.
We’re happy to work with most spaces but for instance, in an office, it wouldn’t work in a room full of desks. We also try and avoid using spaces with lots of columns or other obstacles that might block people’s view of the instructor. Anything on a slope wouldn’t be ideal either. We are based in London and are happy to come and do a site visit anywhere in the city if you’re unsure whether or not your space would be suitable.
Depending on your group size we will need 1 ½-2 hours before and after your event to set up and break down.