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The Lighthouse Project
• GermanyBartender Oliver Schmidt of Germany believes everyone needs a ‘lighthouse’ at some point in their life and donates €1 of every Ketel One ‘The Lighthouse Project’ cocktail sold to a charity that delivers meals to those in need.
- In this industry we are all part of a huge community. Everyone who works at a bar knows of the ups and downs, the highs and lows of the best job in the world. Because of that, I wanted to create a community cocktail for charity and now the Worldclass and Ketel One gave me a platform for my project. To achieve this, I reached out to numerous bars from all over Germany and approached Mistelhain, a local beverage producer from Regensburg. I made a syrup out of homegrown rosemary and then built a Highball consisting of Ketel One, Bitterlemon
- from Mistelhain and my homemade syrup. I sent packages with a bottle of Ketel One, my syrup and the lemonades from Mistelhain to 20 bars and asked for their participation. The idea is to put a cocktail for charity on their menu and after 2 months, 1€ of each sold drink goes to charity. In the packages the bars could also find information about this project and instructions on how to reproduce the syrup. For garnish I used small envelopes with seeds of rosemary. This way even guests can take a little bit of my cocktail home and do something
- for sustainability by planting and growing their own rosemary. All of this is called THE LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT. Sometimes it can get dark, and everybody needs a lighthouse at some point in their live. Everyone can make a small difference but we as a community can have a big impact.
Taste it for yourself.
The Lighthouse Project
Ingredients
Ketel One Vodka 50 ml
Mistelhain Bitterlemon 100 ml
Rosemary syrup 15 ml
Garnish:
Small envelope with rosemary seeds
Prep Ingredient Recipe & Method
Rosemary syrup:
- 300g sugar
- 300ml water
- 20g rosemary
Procedure:
1. Put everything in a pot over low heat
2. Stir until the sugar has dissolved
3. Let it rest for 30 minutes
4. Filter the syrup with a sieve
Build the cocktail in a highball glass over ice.
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