Workshop: Botanical Gin Flavouring
This relaxed, hands-on workshop is an opportunity to join us for a botanical adventure in exploring and selecting various fruits, herbs, spices and flowers to create your own bespoke infused gin. We will discuss and sample key aromatic botanicals used in popular gins and explore botanical and flavour profiles to develop our understanding of the blending process. We’ll look at a range of botanical materials and flavour pairings, measurements and scaling up if wanting to create larger quantities at home and maximum infusion times. This workshop is ideal for anyone who has an interest in aromatics, plants, culinary crafts and of course, gin! Together we will explore:
A whistle-stop tour through the history of gin
Discussion and sampling of key aromatic botanicals used in popular gins
Understand flavour pairings, botanical profiles and blending
Develop our personal recipe, select and combine to infuse in our Gin base
Advice on tonics, mixers and garnishes to further develop your mixology skills.
Alternative recipe suggestions will also be provided for home experimenting
You will leave this session with your own 200ml bespoke infused gin to take home, an extra sample recipe to use, in addition to the skills and knowledge to continue experimenting at home.
If feeling experimental, you may bring along any interesting herbs, fresh or dried botanicals you might wish to include in your gin blend. Workshop notes are provided, but you may wish to bring along a notebook to write your own notes.
Meet Tanya
Tanya (TIDHA, MIFPA) trained as a Clinical Aromatherapist, which led to further studies in natural perfumery. She now combines her clinical work with delivering events and workshops in blending, botanical skincare and perfumery; and provides conceptual fragrance ideas for events, museums and public spaces. She has a passion for unusual ingredients, botanical history and use of plants in folklore. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @perfumemistress and find out more about her work on her website here.
Price: £85 / Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. Each resident can claim 1 place per year. To check whether you are eligible, please click here.
To claim your free place, click ‘Book Here’ below, and enter code ‘SOUTHWARK’ under ‘Redeem Coupon’.
You will then be charged a £10 deposit in order to claim your place, but this will be refunded to you after you attend the workshop.
Please note that you will be required to fill in a Southwark Council form, including some personal information, in order to confirm your place on a workshop, which will be sent to you via email. Your place will not be confirmed until this has been completed.