GETTING READY FOR COCKTAIL WEEK
Nottingham Cocktail Week is just around the corner. LYNETTE PINCHESS takes a look at the fun on offer
GET ready to be shaken – or stirred – for Nottingham Cocktail Week, offering an exciting programme of booze-related events. More than 55 bars, restaurants, pubs, hotels and casinos have jumped on-board with a vibrant seven-day celebration of the city’s cocktail scene.
Venues have been challenged to create new drinks based on three themes: Nottingham personalities, twist on a classic and collaborations with Nottingham companies to create something truly unique. As well as dazzling new drinks, there will be competitions and special offers from Monday, September 3, to Sunday, September 9.
Bars will be battling it out in the contest for the best cocktail and revellers can win prizes by posting cocktail pictures using the hasgtag #Nottmcocktailweek
The Alchemist – crowned best new venue at the Nottinghamshire Food and Drink Awards – has put a spin on a classic Cosmopolitan. White Cosmo comes with vodka, elderflower liqueur and Cointreau with a flower in the ice ball.
Collaborations include the Left Limon – Boilermaker’s homage to the Left Lion with vodka and limoncello, garnished with a rambling overheard in Notts.
Revolucion de Cuba has teamed up with Ann Summers to produce Ann’s Naughty Cuban Summers, a blend of coconut rum, cherry liqueur and passion fruit, served with a pink chaser.
The Reds, the city’s ice hockey team, a city centre road and Nottingham’s Olympic ice dance champs have provided inspiration for drinks named Choccingham Forest (Chino Latino), Panthers’ Paradise (at the Bierkeller), Made Marion’s Way (Oaks) and Torvill and Dean Ice Cream Dream (Revolution).
The Bodega has turned Sleaford Mods’ song Tied Up In Nottz into an exotic lychee cocktail called Thai’d Up In Notts, while Suede Bar’s creation is called Cave Dweller.
Andy Crawford, a director of Nottingham BID, the organisers of this It’s in Nottingham initiative, said: “Lots of venues have already committed to taking part and the drinks companies are also backing it. People who have heard about it are really looking forward to sampling some of the new cocktails that the venues are creating.”
Venues taking part in the event include Boilermaker, Cookie shake Bar, Pepper Rocks, Hockley Arts Club, The Alchemist, The Walrus, Harts, Bar Iberico, Chino Latino, Jamie’s Italian, St James Hotel, The Lace Market Hotel and Bodega.
A trail map has been produced to show the venues taking part. Find out more at www.itsinnottingham. com/cocktailweek