Mixing glass, bar spoon and julep strainer set

Description

This set covers the three pieces a stirred drink actually needs: a 600ml mixing glass, a twisted-handle bar spoon and a julep strainer, which is the perforated, bowl-shaped strainer traditionally used with a mixing glass rather than the spring-loaded hawthorne strainer built for a shaker. Buying them together means the spoon's handle length and the strainer's size are matched to the glass, rather than finding out afterwards that a spoon bought separately is a few centimetres too short to comfortably reach the bottom.

Stirring is genuinely simpler to get right than shaking, but it still benefits from the right tools: a spoon with a twisted shaft rolls between your fingers more smoothly than a plain rod, keeping the stir even without you having to grip and drag the handle round by hand. A jug and a slotted spoon will produce a drinkable stirred cocktail, so none of this is strictly necessary — but if you're stirring negronis, martinis or old fashioneds often enough to notice, a matched set removes the small frictions a mismatched setup adds up to.

Specification