So to mark the beginning of 8Shades’s green journey, we hosted our digital launch event there on January 26 th 2020, of course during happy hour, to virtually celebrate the occasion with our closest friends, fellow eco-enthusiasts and founding 8Shaders. If you were lucky enough to receive one of our gift boxes you’ll know just how delicious their cocktails are but we implore you to go and check them out for yourselves and enjoy this finite period of time where lunchtime drinking has become temporarily acceptable. This place is a trailblazer in the sustainable dining race, not only that, they even have a fermentation chamber and lab that allows guests to explore the different processes and techniques used by the team to create experimental cocktails… how cool is that for a talking point!Īt 8Shades we just couldn’t resist collaborating with such an innovative business that shares our green ethos and loves exploring new and challenging ways of “mixing” things up (see what I did there). How do they do this? One of the simple approaches they take is salvaging ingredient scraps and offcuts to be reused or upcycled, much like a nose-to-tail approach taken by some restaurants. What this means is that they operate at 80% sustainability from the drinks they make to the furnishings themselves.

New bars in Hong Kong are a dime a dozen, but there is something different about Penicillin – it’s officially Hong Kong’s first closed-loop bar. It’s easy to forget how much waste can be created at our favourite watering holes, but as cocktails become more sophisticated and multifaceted, the more ingredients are used, which in turn create more waste. However, it’s 2021 and trash talk is taking a sharp turn towards Sustainability Town.

When it comes to hanging out at bars, no one is immune to trash talk since the first cocktail was mixed, bar goers have been getting lippy.

Happiest hour