Molecular bar and molecular cocktails differ from the usual ones, like hands-on experiments from boring lectures in chemistry classes. What was taught – I forgot everything. What they showed – I remembered everything.

In a typical outing bar, the bartender looks like a bartender, whatever you dress him up in; the rack looks like a rack, no matter how you brand it; cocktails are like cocktails, no matter how you decorate them. Everything is recognizable, expected and predictable. It’s not bad. This is conservative.

Molecular bar whips Bras d’honneur in the direction of classics and traditions. Boldly replaces shakers and old-fashioned ones with centrifuges and test tubes, and the bartender with a “Laboratory Assistant” or “Magician”. The magic begins to the delight of the guests, thirsty for bread, alcohol and spectacles.

Secret: the molecular bar is elementary science. The magic in it is like snow on the equator.
variants of molecular cocktails from the Rbar battle menu and photos from real projects, without staging
Typically, molecular cocktails are created based on well-known and favorite drinks in the event industry. For example, having turned “Cosmopolitan” into jelly or airy foam, you can call it “molecular”.

It happens that customers additionally ask to subject the molecular cocktail to cosmetic tuning. So “Blue Hawaii” in the molecular version can turn red, orange or even black, or you don’t have to bathe and leave them bright blue.

Sometimes the customer is faced with the task of organizing an off-site bar at an event “as usual, but unusual”, and then all the power of bar molecular mixology “shrinks” to classic cocktails in test tubes and flasks. Let’s start with them …

I did not use tricky commercial names for the description. For ease of understanding and ultimate clarity, he called them “as is”.

Cocktails in a test tube or flask

Yes, yes, yes … These cocktails are not masterpieces of molecular mixology, but a science lab-style exit bar is rarely complete without them. Another alcoholic shot in a test tube is a great option for themed parties and events with a claim to innovation.

The bartender prepares a cocktail and pours it into test tubes at the counter in front of guests. Uses liquid nitrogen for the show element and wow effect.

The contents of the test tube can be made in any color and taste. For example, a cocktail with a win-win combination of vodka and cranberry juice, fresh raspberries, kumquat and a hint of vanilla – the base version is bright red. If it is necessary to stylize it under the theme of “Halloween” – we will make it burgundy. Give “summer mood” – yellow …

In flasks, it is convenient to serve vitamin non-alcoholic smoothies made from fresh fruits and their combinations.

Jelly cocktails

Zhelefication of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails is achieved due to harmless food gelatin, which is added to New Year’s jellied meat. The thickening process is not quick, therefore all cocktails are prepared in advance, on the eve of the event.

Inside the jelly, you can add berries, pieces of fruit … whatever. The jelly-like cocktail itself can be made in two or three colors. Maybe four, but we didn’t try.

The prepared cocktail is poured into a large rectangular shape. Then a huge jelly-like slab is cut into neat cubes and so served to guests.

At the request of the customer, the cocktail can be poured into other forms before the telephonization: hemispheres, hearts, stars … For one client, we ordered special silicone molds with the logo of his company. For Volkswagen it was made in the shape of a beetle, for Lexus – in the shape of a wheel. They even made a Formula 1 badge.

The second most popular form of serving jelly-like molecular cocktails is to style them like fruit slices.
The cocktail solidifies in the shape of a ball with a diameter of 10 cm. Then it is cut into even slices and fixed on a fresh fruit peel. A striking example is “Molecular Cosmopolitan” in the form of a slice of watermelon.

Alcoholic ice cream

A whimsical thing on a molecular bar, from which everything is necessarily photographed, even on a push-button telephone – His Majesty Liquid Nitrogen. Descending clouds of thick white steam, seething and smoking cocktails – nitrogen is to blame for everything.

Liquid nitrogen is safe for humans if you do not pour it over from a bucket or drink it neat. We even breathe air, which contains 4 times more nitrogen than oxygen. Don’t believe me? Google it.
But the most useful and important property of liquid nitrogen for a molecular bar is flash freezing.

You can freeze any classic cocktail with liquid nitrogen, and turn it into an alcoholic horn or sorbet on a saucer. The bartender does this at the counter, allowing guests to enjoy the spectacular show.