Lyaness is the award-winning bar from Mr Lyan and team, set within the iconic Sea Containers London on the South Bank. Recognised as the first-ever 3 PIN bar by The Pinnacle Guide, it’s a space shaped by creativity, but made for people—everyone’s welcome.

Selfish pursuits can often have wonderfully selfless outcomes. Zach Brown crowdfunded help to make a potato salad (lol). In true internet community style, this snowballed far and beyond, culminating in ‘Potatostock’ – not only creating a potato celebration, but a big boon for charities. Strangers coming together to create the most incredible things! Taking disparate elements to de-bitter radicchio and grapefruit reveals all of their playful, fruity glory to layer complexity into this zippy sour.

Sometimes you need to look to unusual situations – even mindless ones – to come up with the best collaborative solution. We found something (everything!) lacking in a classic White Lady, so by taking inspiration from Japanese engineers who adjusted the Tokyo subway system using the ‘advice’ of brainless slime mould, we were able to revisit the drink with way more joy. We tee up penicillium to follow its own path to fix the fruity bridging notes in this fluffy Gin Fix.

Online communities are not boundaried by the realities of the outside world, and can take a punk response to the problems they come across. Using the medium of video games, users were able to make information easily & freely available – in situations where it was censored or restricted; a digital preservation of information that would otherwise be physically – and metaphorically – decaying within libraries. It’s within the most unlikely of places that you can be the most informed. This highball celebrates a wonder of fruitiness using fungi to break down the cellulose of cherry wood to unfold wonderfully ethereal flavours.

Cows produce better, and more, milk when they listen to Lou Reed (alongside examples of plants that open their stomata in response to bird song) – Nature has taste! These cows know something about productivity and appreciation that we don’t, and that is something to celebrate! The unexpected intimacy and seemingly contextless nature of this collaboration makes it all the more magical. A funky, green, fruity punch celebrating the good taste within many unexpected corners of nature.

Throughout history we tend to collectively forget where words come from – our wires get crossed with the ‘real’ origins and meanings of words and their perceived origins and meanings. It was thought that The Arctic and Antarctic were named due to their presence and absence of bears: Arctic = bear / Antarctic = no bear – only for us to realise not those of the polar variety on the ground, but those in constellations in the sky! A celebration of misnomers and misdirection nonetheless being magical; a tropical zippy rum sour with echoes of ‘tiki’.

Even the most advanced institutions can detour to utilise the overlooked to create something extraordinary. Lego has become an unlikely bedfellow in the robotics department of MIT where its precise nature allows them to explore new modelling. By breaking olive oil down to a component part, we have been able to build it along a wholly new path to give body to this bright, aromatic fizz. If you let everyone’s imagination run wild, you’re not only able to rebuild what you know, you’re able to explore brand new things too!

Space and time have an intimate relationship, but we’ve proved that even that collaboration can be thrown into chaos. So it was for the aliens of Uranus who had their time changed when we used and slowed the orbit of the planet to launch our satellites beyond our galaxy. Sometimes we have to use what we can to meet our needs, despite the consequences – usually it’s not at the detriment of one another, but Space & Time? Yeah, screw those guys. Flipping our time travel series from across Lyan history to turn the fleeting flavours of delicate flowers to express something slow and rich; a bright style bittersweet sipper.

Dmitri Mendeleev left the periodic table unfinished knowing those in the future with access to more information and discovery would fill in the gaps. Collaboration across time when you’re able to recognise your limitations! This also happens in the food world: copper stills, casserole dishes and Iron Fish are used to absorb and adsorb flavour, and continually enrich flavours for years down the line. Our Iron Fish acts as a control centre for deliciousness, taking and imparting flavours from this punch, making it richer, chewy, and ever-evolving!

For even the most qualified of professionals; through idleness can come epiphany. Great Ormond Street Hospital partnered with Ferrari who understood how dynamic efficiency brings the best results. You don’t need to be in adjacent fields to be able to learn lots from each other. This Penicillin-esque sour channels how “Taking a break” can result in key discoveries – nutty, fruity, spicy and with heaps of brightness alongside the smoke.

A celebration of human persistence via the medium of smelling a forthcoming tornado – a fruity, flinty and aromatic take on the classic boozy sipper.

A celebration of the complexity of milk, but also of zapping things with a car battery. A surprisingly fruity fizz that’s not overladen with dairy richness.

A Martinez style cocktail with an insane depth courtesy of a proprietary sequential fermentation opening out rich forest aromas alongside deep berry notes. A complex sipper.