Dazzle your mind, body, nose and taste buds…Sign up for Alembique workshops to meet great people, learn cool things, have fun and return home with natural custom creations handcrafted by you! Book early to save a few dollars, plus receive 10% off on most products/ingredients and 10% off of future workshops when purchased on the day of the event you are attending. We invite you to also consider offering the Alembique experience as a gift to a friend or family member.
What Alembique Has in Store for You this Winter Season
- Paella Party with Sobremesa, Saturday, November 8, 2014 (SOLD OUT!)
- Botanical Facial Spa Day | Saturday, November 15, 2014 (50% Full!)
- Healing Herbs for Winter Cooking | Thursday, November 20, 2014
- Alembique Speakeasy Series: Saturday Nights Tincture Bar
- Handcraft a Healing Winter Cream | Sunday, November 30, 2014
- Organic Family Holiday Tea Party | Thursday, December 4, 2014
- Caspian Cuisine at Alembique | Saturday, December 6, 2014
- Intro to Crafting Natural Perfumes | Sunday, December 7, 2014
- Alembique Winter Party | Saturday, December 13th, 2014
- What We Are Making @ Alembique
- Winter Break: 10% off every Wednesday & Sunday in November
- Apothecary Apprentice Volunteers Needed!
- Preorder and Save on Unique All-Natural Gifts for the Holidays
- New Extended Opening Hours
NEW @ ALEMBIQUE
Alembique Speakeasy Holiday Series: Cordial Nights
On select Thursday and Saturday nights from 6-9 PM, from November through to the eve of the new year, Alembique Apothecary presents a herbal speakeasy evening exploring the magic of tinctures, cordials and bitters. Learn about the plants and their benefits as you taste both the gentle and the fierce among healing nettles, wormwood, plantain, gentian, angelica, ginger cinnamon, vanilla, cacao and licorice infused in fine spirits. A mere drop of their nectar under the tongue humbles the roughest of men and emboldens the meekest. To the sound of spinning vinyl and/or live music and some light refreshment, ye shall get tinctured at Alembique. To gain entry, preregistration and whispering the secret code in sinister voice is highly recommended!
Alembique Edible Nights Series
Enjoy delicious home-made food lovingly prepared with local ingredients by local cooks who share their talent and know-how, plus good conversation and live music by local artists. You will return home well-nourished with new friendships, plus you’ll feel even smarter about the foods you love to eat and how to make them in your kitchen, including rare delicacies like the Prohibition era’s famous sandwich “Blind Pig!”
Alembique Natural Health Clinic (late November 2014)
We will be offering weekly clinic hours where you can consult with an advanced student or licensed practitioner of the discipline on specific questions about natural health, herbs, nutrition and complementary therapies.
Alembique’s “Affordable Natural Health” Sliding Scale Program
Alembique strives to empower people to live healthier naturally by sharing information and by helping you create your own custom natural products for your body and your kitchen. To help improve access to natural health education, we are now offering sliding scale events and workshops where individuals and families may choose a price option based on what they can afford. We are also planning a holiday gift program for our neighborhood’s day laborers and our homeless population. By shopping at Alembique you empower us to serve more of our community with natural health education and ingredients.
What We Are Making at Alembique
Consider Alembique’s all-natural products for yourself and as gifts during the upcoming holiday season. We are making a series of all-natural body care products including lotions, shampoos, conditioners, de-tangler, salves, shaving balms, massage oils, toners, toothpaste, bath salts, masks and scrubs with amazing ingredients and recipes you have to try to believe. We are also blending organic teas for digestion, detox, sleep, stress, energy, immunity and more. We are also custom blending mouth-pleasing seasonings for salads and marinades with various sea salts, herbs and spices. Some of these creations are thanks to requests from our community, others from beloved recipes that combine taste and health.
What in your kitchen or bathroom cabinet merits being replaced with a custom, hand-crafted natural version? Email us or drop by and see what we can do together with great recipes and mother nature’s blessing!
Fall in Love on Wednesdays & Sundays
Throughout November, every Wednesday and Sunday we offer 10% off many herbs, teas and other ingredients to warm your heart in the winter season! We also offer Alembique “Magic Water” (refreshing infusions and tonics made with flower distillates) or warm herbal teas brewing fresh for your enjoyment, free of charge (unless, of course, a workshop is in session!) To receive your discount simply mention this promotion.
Alembique Seeks Your Labor of Love
We may be tiny but we are growing and we need a hand. We are lucky to have some amazing folks helping out at the apothecary a few hours a week. If you have a minimum of three consecutive hours to donate at the apothecary, you will receive our heartfelt gratitude, free goodies and discounted workshops in return. Be an apothecary apprentice for day, help with day-to-day tasks (from cleaning and organizing, to computer and admin work, to making great recipes) and return home with Alembique gifts. Email us or drop in and we’ll get you started as a volunteer apprentice.
Preorder Unique All-Natural Gifts for the Holidays
Ahhh yes, the holidays are upon us once more! This year, why not ditch the plastic, the synthetic and the overpriced for nature’s unique gifts handcrafted with love at Alembique. We are making great natural products form tea blends to personal care gift sets, so pre-order by November 15 and get 10% off of the shelf price for orders between $25-$50 and 15% off for orders over $50. Make a list of friends and family and what they might enjoy as a handcrafted, natural gift. Don’t neglect to order a gift or two for your good self too. We are short of elves, so hurry and let us know before the bells start jingling.
Extended Holiday Season Opening Hours
Starting on November 15, 2014, Alembique will extend its opening hours for the holidays season:
Tues-Sat 11 AM- 7 PM, Sun 11-6 PM
Paella Workshop & Party Featuring Sobremesa
Saturday Nov. 8, 2014 | 4-7 PM (SOLD OUT!)
Camila Loew of Sobremesa will cook up a sensual saffron-infused paella de mariscos, the humble yet storied food of Spain’s culinary culture. She will guide you through paella’s ingredients from land and sea and ways to sustainably source and prepare them so they dance in your mouth . Enjoy herb-infused olives, locally-sourced salad, and good wine as the paella is prepared before your eyes. Complete your meal with home-made dessert, digestive tea, and a live musical performance.
♥ Chef: Camila Loew | $45/person (includes appetizer, main course, salad, dessert, tea, and two glasses of wine) if booked by October 25, 2014, $55 thereafter and $25 for children under the age of 12.
Visit Sobremesa.us for more about Sobremesa.
Botanical Facial Spa Day & Workshop
Saturday, November 15, 2014 | Session A 11 AM-1 PM, Session B 3 PM-5 PM (ONLY 6 SPACES LEFT!)
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Join us at Alembique for a unique facial spa experience to help cleanse, steam, exfoliate, detoxify, tone and moisturize your beautiful face! Using all-natural plant and mineral ingredients, you will learn how to handcraft and apply your own petrochemical free regimen as you relax with freshly made tonics, tea, and refreshments in the apothecary’s courtyard. The record player will soothe your soul with classical music. You will leave with a fresh face, a sample of product, and a bit of know-how to help you maintain the happiest, rosiest complexion mother nature proffers.
♥ Instructor: Jesmine Reymond and Stacy Pellow | $45/person if booked by Sunday, November 9, $55 thereafter. Space is limited, so book early!
Healing Herbs for Winter Cooking
Thursday, November 20, 2014 | 7-9 PM
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♥ Instructor: Finn Cunningham | $26/person if booked by Sunday, November 16, 2014, $30 thereafter. Sliding scale available at $18 or $22/person (based on what you can afford) when booked early.
Alembique Speakeasy Holiday Series: Cordial Nights
Saturday, 22 November, 2014 | 6-9 PM
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Alembique Apothecary presents a herbal speakeasy evening to explore the magic of tinctures, cordials and bitters. Learn about the plants and their benefits as you taste both the gentle and the fierce among healing nettles, wormwood, plantain, gentian, angelica, ginger cinnamon, vanilla, cacao and licorice infused in fine spirits. A mere drop of their nectar under the tongue humbles the roughest of men and emboldens the meekest. To the sound of spinning vinyl and/or live music and some light refreshment, ye shall get tinctured at Alembique.
♥ $15/adult (if purchased up to three days in advance, includes light refreshments, tincture and cordial tasting, and a sample of liquid magic to to take home, $18 at the door). Enter by whispering the secret code (concealed in this email…Seek and ye shall find, or give up and email us!)
Alembique Speakeasy Holiday Series: Cordial Nights II
Saturday, 29 November, 2014 | 6-9 PM
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Alembique Apothecary presents a herbal speakeasy evening to explore the magic of tinctures, cordials and bitters. Learn about the plants and their benefits as you taste both the gentle and the fierce among healing nettles, wormwood, plantain, gentian, angelica, ginger cinnamon, vanilla, cacao and licorice infused in fine spirits. A mere drop of their nectar under the tongue humbles the roughest of men and emboldens the meekest. To the sound of spinning vinyl and/or live music and some light refreshment, ye shall get tinctured at Alembique.
♥ $15/adult (includes light refreshments, tincture and cordial tasting, and a sample of liquid magic to to take home if purchased up to three days in advance, $18 at the door). Enter by whispering the secret code (concealed in this email…Seek and ye shall find).
Crafting a Skin Healing and Protecting Winter Cream
Sunday, November 30, 2014 | 3-5 PM
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Keep your skin protected with a recipe blending healing and moisturizing butters and oils an that your skins will drink up to temper the harshness of a cold, wet winter. You will learn about the ingredients including shea and cocoa butters, calendula oil infusions and locally harvested beeswax and how best to meet your skin’s needs in winter using nature’s gifts. You will return home with a recipe handout and a sample of luscious cream handcrafted by you.
♥ Instructor: Babak Nahid | $20/person if booked by Nov. 23, $24 thereafter.
Organic Family Tea Party
Thursday, December 4, 2014 | 4-5:30 PM
Alembique monthly Organic Family Tea Parties introduce your children to nature’s gifts and how to harness their ingredients to benefit your whole family. Enjoy an organic tea party with your child while learning about kid-friendly herbs. You and your child will craft your own tea blend while reading a wonderful story about mother nature! Kids go home with an illustrated handout that includes coloring sheets on the plants and the bees that pollinate them.
♥ FREE with suggested donation $12 for a parent and one child, $5 for each additional child) | Please book via email by Sunday Nov. 30, 2014
Vegetarian Caspian Cuisine at Alembique: Northern Iranian Cooking with Hanif Sadr
Saturday, December 6, 2014 | 5-8 PM
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Chef Hanif Sadr cooks unbelievably healthy, delicious recipes with a focus on the northern Persian cuisine with its unique blend of spices, herbs and vegetables. Bordered by lush mountains and the largest sea on the planet where the ancient giant Sturgeon still survives, the region’s cuisine are seldom experienced in the US. You will learn about the ingredients, the recipes, the fascinating history and the lore, as you enjoy fresh food lovingly cooked by Hanif that your body, mouth and soul will cherish. You will enjoy appetizers, home-made non-alcoholic Persian beverages, main course, salads, desert and tea, accompanied with classical Persian music from the region and warm Persian hospitality Alembique-style!
♥ Chef: Hanif Sadr | $38/person if booked by Sunday Nov. 30, $44 thereafter. Space is limited so book early!
Introduction to Natural Perfumes | An Alembique Livecast
Sunday, December 7, 2014 | 3-5 PM
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Award-winning natural perfumer and owner of Tambela Natural Perfumes Elise Pearlstine guides you through dozens of natural aromatics across floral, spicy, woody, citrus and green fragrance families that combine to make heavenly scents for the holiday season and beyond. Live broadcasting from a mysterious location near the Ever Glades, Florida, Elise will lead a live video broadcast from her garden to help you craft your own olfactory gifts. Participants will take home a recipe hand-out and samples of their own handcrafted natural perfume. Participants will also receive 15% off the price of Tambela natural perfumes.
♥ Instructor: Elise Pearlstine | $40/person if booked by Nov. 30, 2014, $46 thereafter.
Alembique Winter Celebration Party
Saturday, December 13, 2014 | 7 PM-Midnight
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Alembique is throwing a winter celebration party brimming with good food and drink, live music, dancing, special guests and extraordinary amounts of amity and joy. More details to come!
$25/person if booked by Dec. 7, $30 thereafter.
More Good Stuff on its Way!
We are adding more workshops every week, plus fun evening events and community herbal clinics in the coming months, so please stay tuned. And please forward this email to your family, friends and neighbors…they will likely thank you!
Share Your Know-How: Would YOU like to share your knowledge about a beloved natural recipe or craft in a community workshop? Let us know and we’ll collaborate to make it happen!
Get More Goodies: We also are expanding our selection of herbs, teas, spices, tinctures, refills and other ingredients. We have new organic herbal tea blends brimming with goodness and health. And our library has added a few great books (including children’s literature) you will love.
Refill with Benefits: And remember to bring your own container and get 5% off when you refill on select oils, lotions, shampoos and conditioners. That benefits you and your planet.
Show Your Love: Like us on Facebook, but even more importantly, please love us face to face in an old fashioned way right here at our old-fashioned apothecary. We at Alembique love nurturing our growing community online and in the flesh, and thank you for nurturing us right back and making Alembique the little apothecary that could.
Share Your Thoughts: You may always email your ideas/questions/comments. We will read and respond to every single one.