MASTERING GIN COCKTAILS

One class. Three gin cocktails. Take-home recipes, shopping lists, and a whole lot of better entertaining at home.
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Mastering Gin Cocktails
Simple & Delicious Gin Cocktails for Easy Entertaining

Gin cocktails are bright, botanical, refreshing, and surprisingly versatile — perfect for patios, brunches, summer dinners, garden parties, and easy entertaining at home.

Join us at The Distillery for Mastering Gin Cocktails, a hands-on cocktail class designed to help you create fresh, organic, bar-quality gin cocktails at home using Western Reserve Distillers’ award-winning organic gin.

In this class, you’ll receive hands-on instruction and sample three gin cocktails:

Gin & Tonic
A crisp, refreshing, build-in-the-glass cocktail featuring WRD Organic Gin, fresh lemon, and Fever-Tree Tonic.

French 75
An elegant sparkling cocktail made with WRD Organic Gin, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup, and Prosecco, Cava, or Champagne.

Negroni
A bold, spirit-forward classic made with WRD Organic Gin, Campari, and Antica Formula Sweet Vermouth — perfect for guests who prefer something bitter, balanced, and less sweet.

You’ll learn how to build balanced gin cocktails using fresh citrus, organic spirits, premium mixers, simple syrups, proper shaking and stirring techniques, easy garnishes, and smart batching tips for home entertaining.

You’ll also learn how small upgrades — like using fresh lemon, quality tonic, lavender simple syrup, large-format ice, or an expressed citrus peel — can turn a simple home cocktail into something that feels polished and bar-quality.

But the real value is what you take home.

Each guest will receive a printed cocktail guide featuring single-serving recipes, batch recipes, shopping lists, required tools, and step-by-step instructions so you can recreate these cocktails at home for patios, brunches, showers, cookouts, summer dinners, or your next backyard gathering.

We’ve done the planning, measuring, testing, and organizing for you. You’ll leave with the skills, recipes, and confidence to make fresh, organic gin cocktails at home without overcomplicating it.

With more than 35,000 ticketed hands-on cocktail class experiences hosted over the past eight years, Western Reserve Distillers is one of Ohio’s most experienced names in consumer cocktail education — and we’re right here in your backyard.

Your ticket includes instructor-led demonstrations, cocktail samples, one hands-on cocktail-making experience, all tools and ingredients used during class, and a take-home recipe packet built for easy entertaining.

And because our classes are held right inside our gift shop, you can grab a bottle of WRD Organic Gin immediately after class and start your home cocktail journey the same day.

One quick trip to the grocery store for fresh citrus, tonic, bubbles, herbs, and a few simple ingredients — and you can be making fresh, organic, bar-quality gin cocktails at home that evening.

Fresh ingredients. Organic spirits. Better cocktails at home.