Are you too cool for school? Do you admire the panache of Dean Martin? Or maybe Carrie Bradshaw is more your style? Either way, Cocktails 101: Sustainable Sips might be for you.

Presented by “nationally-renowned cocktail specialist” Natalie Bovis-Nelsen (who wouldn’t want that job?), Sustainable Sips offers expertise in more than just sustainable ingredients…it’s a primer in alcoholic concoctions. To be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza’s über-cool X bar, the class offers how-to’s on the ingredients and tools essential for setting up a home bar, creating a well-balanced mixed drink, and even delves into a little cocktail history.

During the class, students will learn to mix four different sustainable cocktails, including a non-alcoholic one. Learning the details on the different cocktail products, including why they are considered organic or biodynamic and how to use them, enables students to create their own signature cocktails. To soak up some of that alcohol, X bar will provide light snacks.

Also known as The Liquid Muse, Bovis-Nelsen is a journalist by training, and “self-proclaimed gourmand, who delights in all things deliciously decadent.” In addition to delighting, she stays abreast of lifestyle, food and drink trends around the world, reviewing liquors and writing articles dedicated to cocktails.

The class will be held on Tuesday, July 24th at 6:30pm. The cost is $27.50 and reservations are required. For more information, contact Bovis-Nelsen at Natalie@theliquidmuse.com or (310) 717-2850.

With more and more organic choices available in the libations department, including Anheuser-Busch’s line of organic beer, maybe drinking isn’t such a bad habit after all.