Much though I love Winchester’s night life, I’ve always said that it’s just missing a secret underground cocktail bar!
Well, maybe I haven’t always said that, but now that Bring and Mix has come to our fair city, it feels like what we’ve all been waiting for.
Tucked away underground in a rather mysterious location, Bring and Mix offers the perfect amount of prohibition era escapism for the evening. With grammar phone music, low lighting and vintage styling you can’t help but get into the spirit of things!
A sneaky snap of Winchester’s new pop-up underground cocktail bar, Bring and Mix
Speaking of spirits, this is where Bring and Mix is a little different to other cocktail bars – you bring along your own selection of alcohol. Simply take along your favorite spirits and the Bring and Mix team have all the skills and special ingredients to turn them into a delicious round of cocktails. This video explains it all…
I attended the Winchester launch of Bring and Mix (which conveniently happened to fall over my own and a friend’s birthday weekend), so I can tell you it’s great fun!
After a month which has seen my drinks cabinet hit quite hard, we were a little unsure of which spirits to bring. Of course I did have some gin handy (there’s always gin!) so we brought along Juniper Green Organic Gin but thought we better leave the amaretto, whisky, Pimms and sloe gin behind. That really would have been a recipe for a nasty hangover. So we stopped along the way for some vodka and white rum… if in doubt, it’s always best to stick to the classic clear liquids I find.
Unexpected contents lurking in my drinks cabinet!
The talented Bring and Mix team turned our spirit choices into some fabulous cocktails, taking the time to ask what we liked and didn’t like and to talk us through the flavours we could expect. We even had a non-gin-drinker (they do exist), enjoying a gin based cocktail!
I dare say what with a double birthday celebration, we were all in rather high spirits to begin with but our two hours at Bring and Mix absolutely flew by in a whirlwind of fun, laughter and cocktail magic. I can highly recommend popping along to try out the experience – you can book tickets and find out more here. I’d be tempted to go again myself and perhaps put a bit more thought into my spirit selection. Who wants to join me next time?
Thanks to the team behind Bring and Mix for the invite, it certainly helped make it a birthday weekend to remember!
