Potion Workshop at Hekate Café & Elixir Lounge at Hekate Café & Elixir Lounge – New York, NY

Make your own non-alcoholic botanical shrub with a former sommelier on select weeknights nights at Hekate.  The workshop is hands-on with a large variety of smells and tastes to explore. Everything you’ll need to make a delicious botanical shrub is included along with a flavor expert for helpful hints if you want. Be a meticulous mad scientist or a jazzy witch. Space is limited!

What’s Included

• Over 20 (organic where possible) botanicals to smell, taste, and create with
• Organic kelp vinegar for you to infuse(seaweed is perfect for this, and you’ll learn why)
• 750 mL apothecary bottle for your botanical shrub. Depending on how sweet you like, how much vinegar the botanicals absorb, and how much you dilute the vinegar you may get more or less than 750 mL (but it’ll be close)
• Pre-Infused vinegar to smell, taste, and blend for a preview of your personal potion
• Organic simple syrup to sweeten your infusions
• White or Kraft-paper-style labels with basic art supplies to label your final concoction
• Guidance and ideas from a sommelier that you’re welcome to throw away, because this class is about hands-on IRL fun and exploration of aromas and flavors, not perfection or pretentiousness.

Important Safety Notes:

This class is not recommended for pregnant people. We can’t speak to the safety of the botanicals or unpasteurized vinegar for people pregnant/nursing.

This class is sensory-focused and not an herbal medicine class.

All of the botanicals offered will all be on the “Generally Recognized as Safe” list from the FDA and we can help with some general food safety recommendations, but since we’re not medical professionals or food-safety scientists we can’t guarantee what you create is 100% without effects, especially regarding drug interactions or medical conditions. Ask a doctor if you’re concerned about anything, and we’d be happy to provide the ingredients which will be available.

Less Important Notes:

Extra bottles available for a reasonable price

The vinegar flavor of your shrub can be covered up quite a bit and the vinegar is high quality. If you hate vinegar you may not enjoy this class, but if you’re ok with hot sauce, ketchup, mustard, or kombucha you’ll likely be ok

You can bring other sweeteners if you’d like (honey or maple syrup etc) but we’re only providing cane-sugar-based simple syrup)

We recommend coming once to infuse and a second time to balance your infusion (sweeten/dilute) and share. You can take home your infusions too and do it yourself. The price for the class includes the 2nd visit to balance the infusion.