Cheers to you!
Smiling Face
• TaiwanBartender Han Wei Yu of Taiwan is a role model for mental health awareness - setting out to ease negative feeling in his community by raising funds with his low waste Ketel One ‘Smiling Face:)’ cocktail for mental health foundations and garnishing with a soothing fragrance that symbolically takes his guests’ worries away.
- With the fast moving, society has been ladened with anxiety and restlessness. This is especially acute in cosmopolitan areas due to the intense pressures and competitions.We believe that bartenders could play a crucial role in soothing the troubled souls, increase awareness of the mental issues and raise funds in an environmentally friendly fashion. The holistic efforts aims to create a powerful and lasting movement. Project ‘Smiling Face’ takes a multifaceted approach:1. Design unique cosmopolitans - “Garnished with good” in practice Creating a cosmopolitan cocktail with various calming ingredients. Let customers write their “worries” on a fragrance blotter, symbolically burn “worries”
- away in flames while releasing soothing fragrance. Their “worries” will be flushed out of blotters that become a “good” garnishment.2. Make spreading the messages and raise funds easilyProduce bottled “Smiling Cordial” that could be used by bartenders to easily create this cocktail. It will touch a wide audience quickly. The commitment to donate sales proceeds of the “Smiling Cordial” to mental health foundations makes it possible to translate bartenders’ passion in increasing awareness. 3. Solidify impacts without wasteCement the impacts by recycling “Smiling Cordial” residuals for “ Smiling Hand Cream”, a product that leaves lasting reminders and fragrance for sure
- to bring smiles to your face. More importantly, the proceeds will help further our goals in helping mental health initiatives. Mental health issues had been long ignored by the society. We would like to invited bartenders to join us to face it with our most heartfelt smiles.
Taste it for yourself.
Smiling Face :)
Ingredients
Ketel One Vodka 45 mlSmily Cordial 90 ozGarnish:Fragrance Blotter
Prep Ingredient Recipe & Method
Smily cordial :1.300g Singleton 12y / 2g Mt. Lemmon Marigold /2g lemon verbena / 8g Earl Grey Tea / sous vide 60°C for 1 hour and filter, you can get ""Floral cordial""2. Pour in 120g milk, 160g lychee juice, 300g floral cordial,20g lime juice in that order and wait 30 minutes.3.Use a coffee filter to clarify, you can get "Floral cordial v2"4.Mix in the following proportion to produce "Smily Cordial"300g Floral Cordial v2 / 300g Chrysanthemum tea / 25g Perilla liqueur / 25g Lavender syrup / 25g Osmanthus syrup / 50g Honey / 5g malic acid
Stir all ingredients in a wine glass for 15 seconds
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