Cocktail Masterclass
Ninety minutes behind our bar with Tom Reilly — three signature cocktails built and drunk, native botanicals decoded, recipes to take home.
Learn the shake, keep the secrets
This is not a demonstration. Each guest works their own station — jigger, shaker, strainer — building the Red Earth Old Fashioned, the Quandong Sour and a bespoke drink designed around your own palate.
Tom covers the technique that actually matters: dilution, temperature, and why the garnish goes on last. Everything you drink, you made — and the recipe cards go home in your pocket.
The class includes
Own station
Full bar kit per guest — no hovering over a stranger's shaker.
Three drinks
Every cocktail you build, you drink. Pace is respected.
Native botanicals
Wattleseed, quandong, lemon myrtle — what they do and why.
Recipe cards
Spec sheets for everything, plus a home-bartending kit list.
Class in session behind the Red Earth bar
The class runs
Welcome pour
A native spritz while stations are assigned.
Technique
Shake vs stir, ice science, the forty-five-second rule.
Build three
Old Fashioned, Quandong Sour, then your own invention.
Judge & toast
Tom tastes the bespoke round; best drink gets the bar's nod.
Class formats
"A cocktail is just a recipe anyone can read — until you watch someone shake it."
What guests say
"Bought it for my partner; came home and rebuilt my whole bar shelf the next weekend."
Chris B. · Adelaide
"Team-building that people actually asked to repeat. Tom is a patient showman."
HR lead · Adelaide
Before you book
None. Stations assume zero technique — Tom rebuilds your shake from scratch. Enthusiasts still learn the dilution and temperature theory.
Bar snacks run through the class; the class-and-dinner package adds a two-course table in the dining room straight after.
The zero-proof class runs the same curriculum on a botanical-distillate base — same technique, no alcohol.
Private classes for eight to ten run any weeknight by arrangement — birthdays, hens, corporate teams. Enquire with dates.
Ten stations. One shaker each.
Friday classes fill two weeks out — grab seats or enquire about a private session.
Book a masterclass
Send the brief and our team replies within one business day with availability and details.