ABERDEEN’S barstaff and venues are busy prepping for the return of Aberdeen Cocktail Week, which promises to be the biggest yet, with more than 30 bars serving up specially discounted concoctions available to festival wristband holders.
Running from October 18th until October 24th, ABZCW offers a packed programme of cocktail and foodie events, encouraging customers into the city to ‘explore, sip and shake’ their way around venues that they might otherwise never discover.
Taking part for the first time this year, Resident X, in the city’s Marischal Square, has opted to make one if its bespoke cocktail offerings into a fundraiser, dedicated to VSA, the social care charity that supports the people of Aberdeen & North East Scotland.
‘The Social Butterfly’ offers flavours of vodka, lemon, crème de peach, and elderflower, decorated with dehydrated butterfly pea flowers and a deep violet-purple colour, representing the charity’s branding. Each sale of this Instagram-worthy colour-changing cocktail will put £5 towards funding the many care services offered by VSA.
Resident X manager, Kyle Ewen, said: “It has been a pleasure to create this charity cocktail for VSA which not only looks and tastes great but makes a genuine difference. We were blown away by the breadth and depth of services which VSA offer to the people of Aberdeen. We hope that the cocktail proves popular during Aberdeen Cocktail Week and that people get behind it to raise vital funds for the charity.”
Head of Communications and Fundraising at VSA, Holly Leiper, said: “We are very grateful to Kyle and the Resident X team for creating this bespoke charity cocktail to help support VSA. We are always looking at new and inventive ways to fundraise but that are also easy for people to be part of. You can literally sit back, relax, drink in hand in the city’s Resident X and still be supporting a local charity.”
ABZCW organiser, Gregor Sey, added: “Aberdeen is home to so many great bars, restaurants and drink brands. Aberdeen Cocktail Week aims to celebrate what the city has to offer by introducing people to new and exciting venues they may otherwise not visit and making Aberdeen known as a destination for superb hospitality.”
