Noshing in Nature: The Botany of Bourbon and BBQ

Location: Selby Gardens’ Banyan Tree Patio   

Class Fee: Members $60/Non-members $66  

Class Size: 80 Participants  

Instructors:   

Chef – Brett Wagner (https://sagesrq.com/realm-restaurant-group/) 

Selby Gardens Horticulturalist – Christopher Elenstar   

Mixologist – Dillon Murray   

Materials Fee: All supplies are included in class fee.  

Botany has never tasted so good! In this new series, learn the plants behind your favorite beverages and sample your way through the science.

From meats to bourbons, wood smoking creates a wide array of flavor profiles, but what is the process and which types of wood? Learn from horticulturists the trees behind your favorite food and drink, tree cultivation, and how they are utilized by chefs. Join a Selby Gardens’ horticulturalist, a certified barbeque expert, and a master mixologist in an open dialogue and an open bar. Then put your new knowledge into practice by sampling varieties of bourbons, savor different styles of BBQ, and understand the complex flavor profiles created by the smoking process of different woods.   

Please check-in at the Selby Gardens Welcome Center at 5:45 for a 6:00 start time.