Cheers to you!
Breathe
• PolandBartender Alicja Bączyk of Poland is a remarkable advocate for air pollution issues in her country, donating 10% of the proceeds of her Ketel One ‘Breathe’ cocktail to organisations that help increase public awareness of the smog problem and help improve air conditions.
- "Poland is one of the most polluted countries in the EU. In December, Cracow, the city I live in, had the worst air quality of any major city in the world. We live in an unhealthy environment, and until we all join forces to fight air pollution, nothing will change. I created my cocktail to inspire bartenders to take matters into their own hands. Ingredients I chose for my cocktails could become extinct if we do not change the level of the air pollution. We do not want to forget how honey and strawberries taste. Furthermore, I want to share
- my knowledge on how to fix broken glass in our bars which reduces carbon footprint. I did workshops on how to do it for our TNT cocktail bar collective where we exchange our ideas and together develop our local cocktail culture. I would like to donate 10% from each cocktail to organizations that help to increase public awareness of the smog problem and support the impoverished with replacing heating systems with newer better ones. The prize would help me to organize more workshops for bartenders where I will share my knowledge on fixing glass but also how our community can
- help in reducing air pollution. Because we all want to enjoy nature and the good it gives us. We want to live in a healthy environment. We want to breathe."
Taste it for yourself.
Breathe
Ingredients
Ketel One Vodka 30 ml
Strawberry-buckwheat honey- citrus hops cordial 60 ml
Prep Ingredient Recipe & Method
Strawberry-buckwheat honey- citrus hops cordial
200 g strawberries
200 g buckwheat honey
200 g water
2 g citra hops
2 hours / 50 degrees / SV / then filter
Combine each 50 ml of strawberry-buckwheat honey- citra hops syrup with 10 ml of acid solution
ACID SOLUTION
940 g water
40 g citric acid
20 g malic acid
Combine acids with water and stir until acids will be completely dissolved.
Stir all ingredients and pour in a Nick & Nora glass.
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