Learn how to make some of Bar Purlieu's best craft cocktails with this mixology class for six. Comes with a cocktail shaker, two martini glasses, silver tray, and olives to put your new knowledge to use at home.

From Bar Purlieu owner Joseph Kiefer-Lucas:

The easiest way to understand cocktails is through the silly but aptly named Mr. Potato Head method. Consider each ingredient in a drink as a different appendage on his face. Swapping out one pair of eyes for another works, but replacing a nose with an ear creates an imbalance. It's the same with drinks. Take a Manhattan: whiskey, vermouth, bitters. Replace the whiskey with rum, brandy or an aged tequila and the drink remains in balance. Replace the bitters with soda water and it fails. By utilizing this method anyone can make excellent drinks at home without having to spend years working behind a bar. I will go over a handful of classic drinks and show how tiny tweaks to the recipes, following this method, results in an almost unlimited ability to create unique delicious cocktails. I will also go over the purported history of the original drinks and the ways bartenders have used this method to create new classics.

A group of up to 6 people will join Joe at Bar Purlieu on a Tuesday evening (the restaurant is closed that night) for the above cocktail class and some delectable appetizers. Date to be arranged between winner and Joe and to be before 10/7/21.

Joe's bio:

I have worked in restaurants for over ten years, spending the last six years specifically working behind the bar at places like Izakaya Meiji, Blu Mist, George + Violet's and for the last year and a half at the restaurant I co-own with my wife, Bar Purlieu. I didn't drink cocktails for the majority of my life; beer was always cheaper. But shortly after I was given the opportunity to train in my first bar I bought several cocktail books and became enamored with the history of cocktail culture. There was and still is so much ambiguity about every facet of cocktail culture that I happily look forward to spending the rest of my life as a student, even if others consider me an educator.