Kindred Cocktails: Regenerative Cocktail Classes at Moonacres, Robertson
At a glance: Kindred Cocktails is Trolley’d’s paddock-to-glass cocktail class created with Moonacres School in Robertson, Southern Highlands NSW. Built around Moonacres farm rhubarb and apple, native Australian botanicals, named producers, foraged ingredients and airline trolley bar theatre, it is the blueprint for Trolley’d’s regenerative cocktail classes, private events and corporate offsites.
Last updated: May 2026. Built for Southern Highlands private events, regenerative cocktail class enquiries, corporate offsites, weddings, tourism activations and producer-led hospitality.
The First Thing Byron Pointed At Was the Rhubarb
The first thing Byron Woolfrey did when we walked into the Moonacres School kitchen in Robertson was point at the rhubarb. Not the spirits. Not the trolleys. The rhubarb, pulled that morning from the farm two paddocks over, was the entire point.
This is the story of Kindred Cocktails: a native botanical cocktail class Trolley’d ran with Moonacres in the Southern Highlands, built from produce grown on the same property the class was held in.
More importantly, it is the blueprint for how a cocktail experience earns the word regenerative. Not because the copy says so, but because the ingredients, producers, venue, waste design and service model can be named.
Founder-led delivery matters. Kindred Cocktails was taught by Byron Woolfrey, not handed to a generic mixology contractor.
Choose Your Regenerative Cocktail Flight Path
Different buyers need different outcomes. Do not force everyone into the same cocktail class. That is how good content becomes weak conversion.
I Want a Public Class
Best for guests who want the Kindred Cocktails experience when public dates are released in small drops.
View Cocktail ClassesI Want a Private Highlands Experience
Best for estates, weddings, birthdays, retreats and private groups wanting a paddock-to-glass cocktail class built around their venue.
Plan a Private ExperienceI’m Planning a Corporate Offsite
Best for leadership teams, brand activations and ESG-aligned hospitality where the producer story matters.
Explore Corporate ActivationsI Want the Ingredient Story
Best for readers arriving through foraging and native botanical searches. Keep them moving through the library.
Explore Foraging LibraryWhy Most “Sustainable Cocktail Classes” Are Not Sustainable Enough
Search for cocktail classes in the Southern Highlands and you will find distillery-led mixology sessions, short-format shaking classes and classic cocktail demos. Some are fun. Most do not touch the actual supply chain.
The garnish is still imported citrus. The syrup is still generic. The story usually ends at the venue postcode.
Regenerative cocktail hospitality starts with three harder questions: where did this ingredient grow, who grew it, and does using it return value to the place it came from?
The Kindred Cocktails Flight Manifest
This is the detail that makes the page credible. Pretty words are cheap. Specificity is what premium buyers believe.
| Element | Kindred Cocktails Delivery |
|---|---|
| Venue | Moonacres School inside The SHAC, Robertson, Southern Highlands NSW. |
| Primary produce | Moonacres farm seconds rhubarb and apple, grown on the same property as the class. |
| Native producers | Something Wild, Blak Brews, Teacraft, 100 Souls and Kangaroo Valley Coffee Cooperative. |
| Foraged inputs | Calendula and riberries foraged and infused into 100 Souls gin by Trolley’d. |
| Hero service moment | Hot poker mulled wine, charged at the Moonacres fireplace with a custom cast-iron poker. |
| Experience format | Arrival drink, Acknowledgement of Country, live syrup cooking, cocktail stations, airline trolley bar service, food interval and take-home ingredient kits. |
| Commercial use | A replicable model for regenerative cocktail classes, private events, weddings, corporate offsites, tourism activations and producer-led destination hospitality. |
The Collaboration: Moonacres and Trolley’d
Moonacres is one of the Highlands’ most quietly serious regenerative farms, feeding restaurants and running a cooking school out of The SHAC in Robertson.
Trolley’d is an aviation-themed cocktail activation company with airline trolley bars, native botanical cocktails and founder-led service expertise. Bringing the two together was not a marketing exercise. It was a supply chain.
Moonacres grew the rhubarb and apples. Moonacres School supplied the kitchen, pots and pouring jugs. Trolley’d brought the airline trolley fleet, cocktail systems, native botanical program, producer relationships and hospitality theatre.
The arrival drink was not a warm-up. It was the thesis in a glass.
The Arrival Drink: Moonacres Rhubarb, Native Spice and Fire
Before anyone touched a shaker, every guest received a hot poker mulled wine. Not a box-wine warm-up. A drink built from the farm, the producer network and the fire.
The base was Moonacres farm seconds rhubarb and apple. The fruit did not make market grade, but it had everything needed for flavour. Reducing waste was part of the drink design, not an afterthought.
The Producer Manifest
- Something Wild: pepperberry, anise myrtle and cinnamon myrtle.
- Blak Brews: hibiscus, quandong and strawberry gum.
- Teacraft: Egyptian iced tea for hibiscus-forward depth.
- 100 Souls: gin infused by Trolley’d with hand-foraged calendula and riberries.
Then came the custom cast-iron hot poker, kept in the Moonacres fireplace all evening. Each mulled wine was charged by hand at the fire before being handed to a guest. That is not smoke-gun theatre. It changes the drink: heat activates spice oils, settles the gin and softens the quandong tartness.
The Cocktail Program
Three cocktails. Each one tied to an ingredient guests could see, handle, cook, taste or take home.
Moonacres Rhubarb
Gin, Moonacres rhubarb syrup cooked from scratch in front of guests, strawberry gum and Egyptian-style iced tea. Guests left with the syrup so the drink could have a second life at home.
Learn Syrup TechniqueLemon Myrtle Margarita
Organic rhubarb-infused tequila, lemon myrtle leaf and citrus. Lemon myrtle replaced the imported citrus oil role usually carried by triple sec.
Explore Native BotanicalsTrolley’d Native Espresso Martini
Vodka infused with roasted wattleseed and cacao, red gum honey and espresso from Kangaroo Valley Coffee Cooperative. Roughly 80km of supply chain, end to end.
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The Night, in Shape
Hot poker mulled wine on arrival. Acknowledgement of Country. Live rhubarb syrup cooking at six prep stations. Guests paired up at chopping boards and pots. The rhubarb came from the farm attached to the building.
Stations then rolled to the Trolley’d airline trolley bar to shake each cocktail. Soup was served between the second and third drink because regenerative hospitality also means people eat.
Every guest received a take-home gift box containing syrup, lemon myrtle leaves, salt and Egyptian iced tea. That detail matters. Surplus ingredients did not die in a bin. They became a second drink on a kitchen bench.
What Made It Regenerative, Specifically
Regenerative is one of the most abused words in hospitality. Here is what it meant in practice.
| Regenerative Element | What Happened at Kindred Cocktails |
|---|---|
| Hyper-local ingredients | Rhubarb and apple from Moonacres farm, the same property as the class. |
| Seconds produce | Fruit that would not have reached market became the foundation of the arrival drink and cocktail program. |
| Named producers | Something Wild, Blak Brews, Teacraft, 100 Souls and Kangaroo Valley Coffee Cooperative were named and used with purpose. |
| Foraged inputs | Trolley’d infused 100 Souls gin with hand-foraged calendula and riberries ahead of the event. |
| Native botanicals replacing imports | Lemon myrtle, wattleseed, strawberry gum, quandong, pepperberry, anise myrtle and cinnamon myrtle replaced generic imported flavour cues. |
| Waste design | Take-home kits turned surplus syrup and botanicals into a second-use experience. |
| Founder-led delivery | Byron Woolfrey taught the class and made the arrival drinks. The category was not subcontracted. |
Board the Ingredient Library
This is where the page should keep people moving. A reader who arrives for Moonacres can leave through lemon myrtle, riberry, calendula, Illawarra plum, mocktails or regenerative cocktail classes. That is how this page lowers bounce rate.
Calendula
Edible flower, garnish and colour source used in Trolley’d botanical infusions.
Read CalendulaIllawarra Plum
A native fruit anchor for Trolley’d’s sours, spritzes and deep purple cocktail work.
Read Illawarra PlumMocktails
Regenerative cocktail thinking should include non-alcoholic drinks with equal craft.
Explore MocktailsThe Strategic Lesson
This is not just a nice public class. That is the small reading.
The bigger lesson is that Trolley’d can turn local produce, native botanicals and aviation hospitality into a sellable destination experience. That matters for Highlands estates, corporate offsites, tourism bodies, councils, destination marketers and premium private clients.
If you are still selling this as “cocktail class,” you are under-selling it. This is producer-led experiential hospitality.
What This Means for Southern Highlands Events
Kindred Cocktails was an intimate public class. The same model now powers Trolley’d’s private and corporate work across the Highlands.
Private Events and Weddings
Highlands estates in Robertson, Bowral, Berrima, Sutton Forest, Burrawang and Kangaroo Valley sit close to serious produce. Trolley’d can design cocktail programs around what is growing on the property or sourced nearby.
Plan a Private ExperienceCorporate Offsites and Brand Activations
A native botanical cocktail program with named producers gives marketing, ESG and procurement something defensible to point at, without turning the activation into a sustainability lecture.
Explore Corporate ActivationsTourism, Councils and Placemaking
The Highlands is rich in producer stories the public rarely sees. Trolley’d can bring those producers into festivals, destination programs and public events through paddock-to-glass service design.
Explore Experiences
A cocktail experience is stronger when food, place and drink are designed as one system.
What Trolley’d Brings That Distillery Cocktail Classes Do Not
Aviation Asset Moat
Real airline trolley bars, aviation uniforms and service theatre that generic mixology classes cannot reproduce.
Explore Mobile Bar HireNative Botanical Program
Wattleseed, strawberry gum, lemon myrtle, red gum honey, finger lime, quandong, pepperberry, river mint, riberry and calendula.
Explore ForagingVerified Producer Relationships
Something Wild, Blak Brews, Kangaroo Valley Coffee Cooperative, Teacraft, 100 Souls and Moonacres are standing relationships used in real events.
Explore SustainabilityService Theatre With Weight
A custom cast-iron hot poker kept in the fire and used to charge every arrival drink is not decoration. It belongs to a hospitality culture.
Request This ExperiencePlan a Regenerative Cocktail Class or Private Highlands Experience
If you are planning a private estate event, wedding, leadership offsite, brand activation, tourism program or destination event in the Southern Highlands, Trolley’d can build a cocktail program around your site, your season and the producers within reach.
Send the event date, location, guest count, format, food plan and whether the goal is education, celebration, brand activation or destination storytelling. The clearer the brief, the sharper the flight plan.
Kindred Cocktails FAQ
What is Kindred Cocktails?
Kindred Cocktails is a sustainable native botanical cocktail class designed and delivered by Trolley’d in partnership with Moonacres School in Robertson, Southern Highlands NSW. The class is built around produce grown on the Moonacres farm, including seconds rhubarb and apple, with Australian native botanicals from producers including Something Wild, Blak Brews and Teacraft.
Where is the cocktail class held?
Kindred Cocktails is held at Moonacres School inside The SHAC at 74-76 Illawarra Highway, Robertson NSW 2577, about 90 minutes south of Sydney and around 25 minutes from Bowral.
What makes this a regenerative cocktail class?
The class uses produce grown on the same property as the class, seconds fruit that would otherwise not reach market, named native ingredient producers, foraged inputs prepared by Trolley’d, take-home ingredient kits and founder-led delivery. That is a system, not a slogan.
Can Trolley’d run this as a private event?
Yes. Trolley’d can adapt the Kindred Cocktails model for Highlands estates, weddings, birthdays, corporate offsites, tourism programs and brand activations. The strongest versions are built around the venue, the season and the produce available nearby.
Can this work for corporate offsites?
Yes. Kindred Cocktails works especially well for corporate offsites because it gives teams a hands-on experience with local produce, native botanicals and named producers. It also gives marketing, ESG and internal communications teams a real story to report.
Does Trolley’d offer non-alcoholic regenerative drinks?
Yes. Trolley’d can design non-alcoholic botanical drinks, native sodas, lemon myrtle lemonade, seasonal shrubs and zero-alcohol cocktail builds. Regenerative hospitality should include guests who are not drinking alcohol.
Does Trolley’d work outside the Southern Highlands?
Yes. Trolley’d is based in Sydney and delivers aviation-themed cocktail activations across NSW and nationally, including Sydney, the Southern Highlands, Byron Bay, the South Coast, Melbourne and Brisbane by arrangement.
How do I book a regenerative cocktail class?
Use the Trolley’d contact page or cocktail class page and provide the event date, location, guest count, preferred format, food plan and whether the experience is public, private, corporate, wedding, tourism or brand-led.
Trolley’d is an Australian experiential hospitality company founded by Byron Woolfrey, deploying premium aviation assets with classic and native botanical cocktails for Sydney events, Southern Highlands destination experiences and selected national activations.
