Tasting through the world of rum at Potsdamer Platz
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Rum Tasting - A special world
Dive into the world of rum, experience an extraordinary and extravagant selection of spirits and sensitize and sharpen your senses as part of the blind tasting of 12 high-quality and unique types of rum, which is a mixture of currently popular varieties, classics and exotics.
What to expect when tasting through the world of rum at Potsdamer Platz
Learn many interesting details about the history, varieties, production, blending, storage and ingredients of the popular sugar cane distillate. Following the pure rum tasting, you will learn how to prepare 6 different rum cocktails, two long drinks and a shot how you too will soon be able to mix a Mai Tai yourself, which by the way means: Mai Tai — “Not from this World — The Best”.
Before preparing cocktails, you will learn how to handle a shaker, bottles and other bar equipment as well as how to pour certain liquids in the appropriate quantities by hand.
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What to bring?
Lots of good humor and lots of joy. A passion for rum is required.
What is included?
The tasting includes the following:
- Enjoy a welcome drink (prosecco/long drink/beer) and experience approx. 25 minutes of theory including a bar secret or two
- Presentation of the history, varieties, variants of production, blending and storage of rum
- Actively practice and learn various mixing techniques as well as how to use bar equipment
- Sensory training and tasting — 12 types of rum (blind tasting) & 8 types of rum (open tasting)
- Prepare and mix 6 selected cocktails & 2 long drinks professionally — each participant tastes all prepared drinks (classics, exotics & own creations) and prepares 1-2 drinks themselves
- Submission of course materials by e-mail.
Following the cocktail course, you will receive documents with recipes for the drinks you have learned in the course, an overview of the types of rum tasted, literature & bar recommendations and a shopping list with details of shops or Internet addresses in order to purchase the necessary bar equipment and ingredients at a reasonable price.
Unique Berlin Events Ltd.
With Andreas and his team, you benefit from the experience of over 15 years of bar catering & event management and the expertise and passion from several 1000 events. Lean back and be inspired - prepared with attention to detail and carried out with maximum pleasure.
