The Alchemist Launch New Playful Cocktails, Including a Trick Teapot Used to Poison People Centuries Ago

The Alchemist has launched a brand-new cocktail menu designed to inject more fun into late-night drinking, with the addition of a cocktail originally designed to poison enemies and ‘Cosmic Oyster’ shots complete with caviar.

Pick Your Poison is served in an ‘assassins teapot’ a trick teapot originating from China. The teapot consists of two separate compartments in which liquid can be poured out of either one depending on where you place your fingers. The contraption was allegedly used in the Ming Dynasty to assassinate an unsuspecting enemy, since you could pour out tea from one compartment for yourself and pour a second drink laced with poison for your opponent in which they would unknowingly drink. So infamous that an original teapot is rumoured to have been held in the British Museum.

Pick Your Poison is a sharing cocktail consisting of two drinks: Red – Mount Gay Black Barrel rum, Cointreau, strawberry, lime and orgeat or Blue – Mount Gay Black Barrell rum, yuzu, citrus and disco blue.

The brand has added a selection of new playful cocktails such as the Piña Co-lava Lamp, a twist on the classic served in a vessel which lights up with disco light and Cosmic Oysters, an upgrade from your standard shots, instead a mini cocktail shooter of Bombay Sapphire Premier Cru gin, yuzu, citrus and disco blue served in silver oyster shells complete with passionfruit pearls.

The cocktail menu is now available in all venues across the UK and The Alchemist are open until late with DJs every weekend.