I have added a new page to the website hinting at why professional bar-tenders and industry leaders should attend Elemental Mixology courses.
Elemental Mixology Courses
Added Courses Starting Next Week!
NEWS:
One final Master Mixology Course has been added for 2015!
It starts on the 28th and wraps up in two weeks.
One more Introductory Mixology Class for 2015 has also been added that starts next week.
Check out the Elemental Mixology Calendar.
Portland ‘Cocktail’ Week
Thank you to all of you who attended class sessions here at Elemental Mixology during Portland ‘Cocktail’ Week!
It was a lot of fun to run something of a shadow week to the official happenings.
There are ten spaces available in the Annual Craftmasters’ Course next year at Elemental Mixology during Portland ‘Cocktail’ Week 2016. They will go to the first ten people who purchase them — so, don’t delay once you know you will be in Portland next year!
There are also the travelers’ courses, also!
Cheers to old friends and everyone new I met in the last week! Have some happy holidays!
Rare Liquors Tasting Added!
A Rare Liquors Tasting has been added to the Elemental Mixology calendar for the afternoon of Saturday, October 17th.
This is a chance to taste forbidden fruit in the form of liquors not sold in the U.S.A.
That’s also the first day of Portland ‘Cocktail’ Week, so you out-of-towners traveling for PCW should consider it — along with the Advanced Craftmasters’ Course taking place in the off hours that same PCW week.
The New Standard Mixing Course Syllabus
I thought I’d share the new syllabus for the Standard Mixing Course.
Here it is: http://elementalmixology.com/smc.html
Cushion Subscriptions Still Open and a Brief History of the Good Times Coach
Before Elemental Mixology was relocated to Portland, there were almost always more people intent on becoming cushion subscribers than there was room for. Here in Portland, plenty of cushion is available for subscription. By the autumn, that will probably no longer be the case!
Between 1898 and 1900, a group of plutocrats that commonly ensconced themselves at the bar in the Waldorf Hotel in Manhattan, New York, maintained a coach, driver and horses to take them from the Waldorf bar to other exclusive drinking establishments and back to the Waldorf Hotel at their whim. They named the coach the Good Times Coach. The Waldorf Hotel Bar’s Good Times Cocktail (later generations of debased drinkers might think of it as the ‘classic’ gin Martini with orange bitters) was named after the Good Times Coach. In 1900, the Good Times Coach was awarded first place in the luxury road team category at the national equestrian exposition at the Madison Square Gardens. In what may have been the most sophisticated pub-crawling of all time, the few men who contributed to the cost of the maintenance of the Good Times Coach had use of it to travel between drinking destinations all over New York City. Those men were referred to as cushion subscribers.
An Elemental Mixology Annual Cushion Subscription enables the full attendance and participation of all courses and symposia (except for the shorter Brief and Casual classes) for the duration of the subscription.
After a year of Elemental Mixology, just about any cushion subscriber will be intimately aware (beyond a master’s level) of:
1) Elements, their ingredients, nature and how they present in drinks in all possible proportions.
2) Traditional genres of drinks, which elements they depend upon for their best character, and how to mix them without needing to memorize recipes.
3) All specific drinks that have been important in American bars, saloons and hotels from 1750 to present will be second nature. Many of these drinks are now almost impossible to order in any bar, and real advantage attaches to being able to make them well and with familiarity.
3) The important aspects of various liquors, including much knowledge that is often glossed over or not fully understood by most in the industry today. The main flavor-making stages of production will be understood: duration of fermentation, type of distillation and aging. The two major overall types of liquor production, the wasser and geist methods, will also be fully understood. Liquors selected to elucidate specific qualities differences will have been tasted numerous times.
4) Many other items of knowledge and experience that will not be laid out here for various reasons!
For anyone making full use of an Elemental Mixology Cushion Subscription, the discount is massive.
The New Elemental Mixology Classroom
