Amaromania! A skills lab with Calliope Draper

Amaromania! A night of conversation, infusion, education, and tasting around the world of non-alcoholic Amari. Award-winning bartender, Calliope Draper will guide you through a taste of the world of non-alcoholic amari, teach you how to make your own non-alcoholic artichoke amaro, and explore the ways you can use these amaris in your cocktails at home.

The tasting will include Pathfinder Hemp and Root Amaro, Noa Red Bitter, and a host of in-house made amari from SPILT's own Andrew Paul. This class will involve hands on crafting of an amaro, and attendees will leave the class with a full recipe to make their own non-alcoholic artichoke amaro at home.

Throughout this class your host, Calliope Draper, will be giving tips and tricks on tasting, infusing, and the techniques of drink making.

This class will dive deep into the technical world of mocktails and cocktails and is suggested for participants with an intermediate familiarity with mocktails.

About Calliope Draper:

Calliope Draper has dedicated herself to building a brighter and more inclusive hospitality sector. Her vision to provide unfailingly warm hospitality to LGBTQ+ folks and education for those both in front of and behind the bar is baked into everything she does. The founder of Places You are Welcome: a cocktail-zine devoted to spotlighting queer stories and excellence across the hospitality industry, a regular speaker at cocktail events and conferences across Canada, and the winner of the 50 Best Bars Roku Scholarship 2024, Callie has been making strides. Currently she can be found behind the bar at Edmonton's first Non-Alcoholic bar, SPILT slinging mocktails. As the first ever transgender person to win a global cocktail competition she is setting off across the world to make every bar into a gay bar.