moodtherapist, Author at The Mood Therapist

Hanoi’s Finest Cocktail: Molecular Night 2.0

November 15, 2016 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Hanoi’s Finest Cocktail was the opening drink at Molecular Night 2.0 at the JW Marriott Hanoi. Information about the evening had been kept deliberately sparse in order to maximise the surprise factor. This cocktail fired the first salvo. Guests arriving for the evening were unaware what was in store or that the event was being held in a secret location, not in the French Grill restaurant as expected.

There, the bar staff apologised profusely and explained that the mixologist was stuck in traffic and had yet to arrive. Would they possibly like a beer while they waited?

[Read more…]

Liquid Laboratory at the InterContinental Hanoi Westlake with the Mood Therapist

September 29, 2016 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Liquid Laboratory at the InterContinental Hanoi Westlake

Are you ready for the Liquid Laboratory?! Apologies, gentle readers, for the lack of updates. It’s been a little crazy around here…but I’m back and I’m busy!

I had a great evening on September 9 with the team at the InterContinental Hanoi Westlake. It was the first in a series of Liquid Laboratory evenings at the Sunset Bar. Each is a themed evening featuring a selection of modernist cocktails, paired with a delicious food offering crafted by Executive Chef, Jeremy Lasserre.

For the opening night the theme was Mixing it up: Bar Classics Re-worked… and featured the following menu: [Read more…]

Shake and Repeat – Cocktails at The Republic

April 12, 2016 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Following a sold out Group Therapy Session with the Mood Therapist at Cama ATK last month, I’ll be doing another night of cocktails at The Republic on Thursday 21st April 2016 starting at 6.30pm. It’ll be exactly the same menu as at Cama, for all those who missed out on tickets for that and for anyone who just want to do the whole thing all over again! Remember, it’s tickets only and limited places. They go fast so don’t delay if you would like to come. Details below.

As four of the five drinks were new on the menu, there are plenty of people in Hanoi who have yet to try them so who am I to deprive them of their cocktail rights? Right? [Read more…]

Group Therapy Session – Cama ATK

March 24, 2016 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Is the meditation working for you? I thought not. Try some cocktails instead at the next Group Therapy Session – Cama ATK, Thursday 31 March

The Mood Therapist will be conducting another Group Therapy Session – Cama ATK in just one glorious week’s time. There will be another five exciting cocktails to try, some of them making a public appearance for the first time. Be amongst the first to savour the flavours! [Read more…]

Sous Vide in Cocktails.

February 18, 2016 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

I’ve been using sous vide in cocktails ever since i got my shiny new Nomiku immersion circulator fresh from their successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012. Over the years I have found additional uses for it in addition to what struck me as obvious – the slow cooking of syrups to create a greater depth of flavour. After I created the Marouni in 2015, the good folk at Nomiku saw it on my Instagram account and contacted me to see if I would write a guest blog for them on sous vide in cocktails.

Of course I said yes. [Read more…]

The Grand Bean-to-Bubble: A Marou Chocolate Cocktail

February 3, 2016 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

The Grand Bean-to-Bubble is a new Marou Chocolate cocktail with a hint of Grand Marnier, topped off with sparkling wine.

It was created for a charity fundraiser in support of The Library Project – an organisation that provides access to books for kids in rural Vietnam. It’s the result of a collaboration between the Mood Therapist, Marou and Moet Hennessy and debuted at an event at the Park Hyatt Saigon organised by Rice Creative.

The Grand Bean-to-Bubble is an elegant chocolate cocktail with a hint of orange that drinks like champagne and has a little surprise at the end… [Read more…]

A Yink (I Think)

January 13, 2016 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Many new parents will be familiar with a Yink (I think). But maybe not this Yink (I think). For the rest of you…

This one, I think, is called a Yink.
He likes to wink, he likes to drink.
He likes to drink, and drink, and drink.
The thing he likes to drink is ink.
The ink he likes to drink is pink.
He likes to wink and drink pink ink.
SO…if you have a lot of ink,
then you should get a Yink, I think.

From One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

OK, so it’s not really ink. But it’s certainly pink. That’s because of the hibiscus flowers used to infuse the vodka – the old fashioned way. [Read more…]

Secret Santa’s Seasonal Smokehouse Sipping Session

December 13, 2015 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Christmas shopping fatigue? Gift wrapper’s elbow? Seasonal overload?

Take the load off your feet and mind by relaxing with a flight of fine modernist cocktails courtesy of the Mood Therapist, Hanoi’s preferred intoxicologist, on Friday 18 December 2015 from 6.30pm at the Moose & Roo Smokehouse.

We’re switching it up a little bit this time – reducing the minimum cocktail commitment (and price) but making a broader selection of cocktails available as an ‘after party’ for those who want to keep on going.

We’re also making it a Smokehouse specific selection – lots of spirit forward cocktails, with a focus on bourbon, for slow seasonal sipping’…and a special Smokehouse cocktail. You don’t want to miss this one! [Read more…]

The Luang Prabang Film Festival welcomes the Mood Therapist

December 4, 2015 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

The Mood Therapist is deeply honoured to be invited to weave some cocktail magic at the Luang Prabang Film Festival in Laos from 5-9 December 2015. The main event is at the Icon Klub on 8 December and features a flight of five modernist cocktails including a new seasonal drink that has not been out carousing in public before, so come and check it out if you’re in town. Tickets are strictly limited and are available in advance directly from the Icon Klub for 500,000 Kip which includes the entire flight of five drinks.

For the brave of heart and weak of will there will be additional cocktails available by the glass. [Read more…]

Quinine Sulfate in Cocktails: The Lavender Gin and Tonic

November 19, 2015 By moodtherapist 1 Comment

The lavender gin and tonic came out of my first foray into the world of home made tonic water and was the most successful of the initial four variants I produced. Force carbonated, it is extremely fizzy, in a way a regular G&T never is because the gin gets carbonated as well as the tonic and you can really amp up the pressure if you so wish. Also, as you control the sugar level, it doesn’t have to be cloyingly sweet and the finished drink is crisper and drier than anything made with the commercially ubiquitous Schweppes… [Read more…]

Mood Therapist Custom Menu