Michal Dojčák

Some time ago, we started a dialogue in our community about waste management in our bars, but unfortunately, not every bar has the logistics to handle or utilise waste efficiently.

However, our bar has a spacious prep room, so we decided to open our doors to everyone eager to learn and share this idea. With this initiative, we created a simple cordial based on lime waste for a gimlet, using Ketel One Vodka, as a local community.

But the dialogue has continued since the initiative started, and we have adapted and learnt. Together, we try to reach out beyond our local community.

So, with the Open Door Initiative
I would invite you to open the door to your prep lab and share your knowledge so we can grow even further as a community. If every bar and every bartender starts to "Open Doors" as a community, we will achieve what is individually unachievable.

Last Year, we started this through project Eternal Mixology, where we as community discovered the potential of sharing ideas and how we can help each by creating one syrup or a cordial which can unify not just a few bars but all bars in Slovakia by simple recipe from waste which led to universal recipe for Gimlet which mainly is known in our community of bartenders but also people outside of our local bubble and also since the recipe to cordial is easy to learn or replicate. That means it is scalable even outside of our borders.

Minthe

45ml Ketel One
40ml Lime Mint waste cordial
Throw with ice and serve in an old-fashioned glass with seasonal herbs.

Cordial recipe
1L water
250g leftover mint
5g lime waste powder
10g oleo sacharum made with sugar and leftover limes
335g Sugar
Citric acid 10g
Malic 10g
Blanch the old mint, then put it in the Thermomix with all the other ingredients. Dissolve all the ingredients, let it steep for 20 minutes at a low temperature and strain through a coffee filter and bottle.