Masterclasses offer in-depth explorations of food and drink topics, presented by experts and accompanied by demonstrations and tastings.

Get ready for World Gin Day on June 13 with this exercise in crafting what might just be the quintessential summer drink, the gin and tonic. Taste a wide selection of gins and premium tonic waters, then try your hand at fashioning the ultimate G&T, choosing your gin, your mixer, your garnish, and your preferred tonic to gin ratio, guided all along the way by veteran spirits expert and long-time G&T obsessive, Stephen Beaumont.

Those who experienced Stephen’s ‘New Face of Canadian Whisky’ Masterclass in April will already be familiar with his fun and educational approach to drinking, and this class will feature much of the same, only with gin as the focus. You’ll sample fascinating gins from around the world alongside familiar and new-to-market tonic waters, and discover your new drink of the summer!

The co-author of the definitive Canadian distilleries guide, Canadian Spirits, Stephen Beaumont has been writing about spirits and beer for over 35 years and fifteen books. In 2017, he and his Canadian Spirits co-author Christine Sismondo researched and wrote what was then the ultimate guide to G&Ts for The Gobe and Mail, but with many more varieties of both gin and tonic now available, he looks forward to guiding tasters through a new round of flavour-filled experiments!

Don't miss this unique opportunity to be led through a world-class guided tasting by the person who has literally written the book on the subject!
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Stephen Beaumont has been writing about beers and spirits all over the world for 35 years and is the author or co-author of fifteen books on the subjects. He has in the past spoken to audiences from Toronto to São Paulo and San Francisco to London. You can find his work at Beaumont Drinks | @beaumontdrinks