It was a sunny day when twin brothers Joe and Ben were messing about with new flavours at their liquid nitrogen ice cream stand in St Nicholas Market. Adding gin to a homemade lemon sorbet, they created their first cocktail – the frozen G&T – and like that the Brozen Bar was born. They’d go on to launch Bristol’s (and maybe the UK’s?) only liquid nitrogen cocktail bar in 2017.
How do the liquid nitrogen frozen cocktails at Brozen Bar work?
Small amounts of liquid N2 can sometimes be used to cool cocktails and create a smoky, cauldron effect – but if you ever want to freeze alcohol quickly, liquid nitrogen is the only answer. Because liquid nitrogen boils at -196°C, when you mix it with a cocktail, the alcohol freezes into an ice cream-like texture – while the liquid nitrogen boils away into nothing – creating liquid nitrogen frozen cocktails.
Part dessert, part cocktail, this is Brozen Bar’s bread and butter. Tuck into the coolest cocktails in town next time you’re on St Nicholas Street – from frozen pina coladas to pornstar martinis. Our favourite has to be the gelato-style white Russian (mixing cream, coffee liquor and vodka), and we promise you’ve never a frozen margarita like this before, Sensitive teeth? Don’t worry, there are plenty of normal cocktails, beers and wines to choose from too.
Don’t think this is some gimmick trend either – as far away from the old-school speakeasy vibes of many Bristol bars, the Scandinavian-inspired, cutting-edge cocktail hotspot feels almost futuristic. How is there not an alcoholic ice cream stand on every street corner in the UK, already? Alcoholic slushies eat your heart out, now this is a real adult dessert-drink.
Combining scientific techniques and punchy flavour, like us, you probably want to know all the secrets of Bristol’s frozen cocktail specialists. So why not try the Frozen Cocktail Tasting Experience? Starting from £35pp, you’ll be guided through a whole range of homemade concoctions, liqueurs, sorbets and all sorts of weird ‘n’ wonderful drinks. If you’d like to learn more – and Brozen Bar in general – head here.