Drink Your Garden: Crafting Botanical Beverages ($5,300)

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The farm-to-table movement has officially reached the bar—and it tastes incredible. We’ve found happy hour, fresh from the garden, to be one of life’s utmost pleasures, and it's good business too.
But how do you actually translate homegrown or locally sourced, seasonal ingredients into compelling botanical beverages your guests will order again and again? In this hands-on learning lab, you’ll explore how garden to glass mixology can become one of the most powerful—and profitable—tools in your bar program. With botanical flavors trending and many of these ingredients already moving through your kitchen, there’s a major opportunity to reduce waste, lower COGS, and build drinks with a true sense of place.This seminar will give an overview of the myriad techniques possible to extract and preserve flavor as a bartender, how to start a cocktail garden on any scale, and how ultimately how doing so can lead to drink development your guests will get excited about.
Examining syrups, shrubs, teas, tinctures, bitters, juices, infused spirits, and garnishes, as well as the extraction and infusion methods that tie these together, this is a Botanical Beverages 101 class for bartenders and home bartenders alike. You’ll experiment with balance, texture, and aromatics in real time, and leave with a garden-to-glass cocktail you design yourself—plus the skills, systems, and inspiration to replicate it and grow your own program.

Speaker:
Belinda Kelly

Logistics & Details

Seminars will be hosted at the Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans and will range from 60-90 minutes. Brands will receive logo placement on the TOTC2025 agenda and signage and have the opportunity to have their product served during their sponsored seminar.

Seminar sponsorships are responsible for the underwriting of the spirits served and will be ordered through the Foundation.

Following May 18th, 2026, all confirmed partnerships will incur a 5% late fee (included in total at checkout) and payment is required in full by credit card.

Seminar Sponsorships - Annual Education Underwriting

The new Annual Education Underwriting model invites brands to support the TOTCF Education program year-round through a holistic lens, opening up opportunities beyond sponsoring seminars during the week of Tales of the Cocktail.

To sponsor this seminar, choose one of our Annual Education Underwriting levels and add it to your cart. To sponsor just 1 seminar, we recommend the Builder Level. To sponsor 2+ seminars and receive even more benefits, you can take advantage of our Mentor Level, Innovator Level, or Leader Level opportunities.