At a glance

Cocktail making classes in Sheffield

The session

How the two hours work

Your host arrives around 15 minutes before the start and sets up on the agreed work surface. Clear that surface beforehand and that is the whole preparation required from you.

Across the two hours, your host demonstrates each drink and explains shaking, straining, building and balancing sweet against sour. Everyone makes their own cocktail, with games between the three mixing rounds.

At the end, the host packs away the equipment and takes the class materials. Your booking confirmation explains anything left to you, such as spills or general tidying.

Choose your host

Mixologist or buff butler?

This is the choice many groups do not realise they have, and it is the main thing that changes the price. The drinks, techniques and two-hour class are otherwise the same.

Full nudity is not part of the buff butler service. The apron stays on throughout, and physical contact with the entertainer is not permitted. The clothed mixologist option provides the same class for £7 per person less.

Choose three

The cocktail menu

Your whole group chooses the same three cocktails from the ten below, rather than every guest choosing individually.

• Mojito
• Cosmopolitan
• Southside
• Gin Fizz
• Blue Lagoon
• Espresso Martini
• Pornstar Martini
• Woo Woo
• Sex on the Beach
• Piña Colada

Mocktail versions are available at a reduced rate confirmed on your quote. Tell us how many guests want mocktails when you enquire.

Allergies and dietary requirements

Tell us about allergies and dietary requirements when requesting your quote, so we can confirm what is possible before you book.

Ingredients vary across the menu, and the same equipment is used for different drinks during a session. We will explain relevant ingredients or substitutions ahead of your event.

Clear inclusions

What is included, what you provide and what is not

There is no shopping list. You do not need to buy alcohol, borrow glasses or find a cocktail shaker: it all arrives with your host and leaves with him.

Your kitchen and your space

Two hours of cocktail making needs slightly more than a room. Specifically:

• A work surface: where the host builds and the group works.
• Sink access: essential for rinsing between three rounds.
• Gathering room: safe space for everyone around the surface.
• Venue permission: required for hotels, apartments and holiday lets.

One main surface will often take ten to fifteen guests working around it. For larger groups, or a property with limited worktop, you will usually want a second surface—a dining table alongside the worktop—or a second host.

A second host is quoted case by case rather than at a fixed rate. Send us photographs or rough dimensions of the surfaces when you enquire for a larger group and we will tell you whether the space works.

Group size and who it suits

The minimum is 10 guests. If numbers drop below ten after you have booked, the booking still runs, but it is charged for ten.

There is no single published maximum. Venue layout, guest numbers, equipment and how many hosts are needed are all assessed when we prepare your quote—which is why a ceiling published here would be wrong for a good share of the venues we work in.

It works well for hen parties, birthdays, work socials, team events, and any group that wants a structured activity in a place they already are.

• Everyone in the property must be at least 18.
• Physical contact with the entertainer is not permitted.
• Check that apartments, hotels and holiday lets allow entertainers.
• A group of eight does not meet the minimum; a group of thirty needs suitable space.

Clear pricing

How much it costs in Sheffield

The quote arrives by email straight away. Treat it as a price rather than a reservation: your date is not held until we confirm that a host is available, before taking payment.

Get an instant Sheffield quote

A mobile class compared with a venue-based class

Sheffield has good venue-based cocktail classes too. The right option depends less on headline price than on the shape of your day.

Neither is universally better. A mobile class removes a journey when your group is settled in one place; a venue class may suit you better if you are already out in Sheffield.

Booking and payment

1. Request a quote. Give your date, event address and guest numbers.
2. Confirm availability. We check your host before taking payment.
3. Pay the £20 deposit. It locks the date and comes off your final bill.
4. Clear the balance. Use the date in your booking confirmation.
5. Confirm with the venue. Required if the class is not at your own address.

Aim to allow a few weeks for Saturdays and longer between June and New Year. Short-notice enquiries are still worthwhile because availability changes daily.

Cancellation and refund policy

Below is the short version of how cancellations and refunds work. The governing document is our Terms and Conditions—this is here so you do not have to go looking.

The deposit. £20 holds the booking and is taken off what you owe. If the cancellation is yours, that £20 stays with us.

Cancelling on the 30-day mark itself falls inside the 14-to-30-day band.

If we cancel. Should we ever be unable to deliver a confirmed booking, the choice is yours: another host, another date, or your money back in full—deposit included.

Guest numbers. If your group falls below the 10-guest minimum after booking, the booking is still charged for ten. That is a change in numbers rather than a cancellation.

Rescheduling, balance dates and everything not summarised above are set out in the Terms and Conditions.

Local planning

Why Sheffield works well for this experience

What decides it is the kitchen, and that comes down to the individual property rather than the neighbourhood.

Before booking your accommodation, check the listing photographs—or ask the owner—for a clear worktop, island or sturdy table, a sink within easy reach, room for everyone to gather safely, and permission to bring in an outside host and supplied drinks.

Properties that meet those conditions turn up around Sheffield city centre and Kelham Island, in Ecclesall, Nether Edge, Crookes and Hillsborough, and towards the Peak District edge—roughly a third of the city sits inside the national park.

A hotel suite works too, provided it has a sink and a real surface rather than a kettle and a minibar.

Worth checking carefully: a narrow galley kitchen. A larger group cannot work safely around a short run of worktop, so plan on the dining table as a second surface, or ask us about a second host.

Filling in the rest of the trip? The city’s official visitor site is Welcome to Sheffield.

Areas we cover in South Yorkshire

We quote by distance from your event address rather than from a fixed postcode list, so Sheffield and surrounding towns are handled in the same way.

• Mobile cocktail making class in Barnsley
• Mobile cocktail making class in Rotherham
• Mobile cocktail making class in Doncaster
• Full locations directory

Anything not answered here may be covered in the Buff Boyz FAQs, or ask when requesting your quote.

How it compares with our other Sheffield services

• Buff butlers in Sheffield
• Hen party life drawing in Sheffield
• Male strippers

A cocktail class and life drawing can be booked together on the same evening—tell us both when you enquire and we will sequence them.

Why book with Buff Boyz?

• Everything supplied. Spirits, mixers, ingredients, glassware, ice and equipment. You buy nothing.
• Two host styles at two prices, so you are not paying for a theme you did not want—and the clothed option is the cheaper of the two.
• A published menu, so you know what you are making before you book.
• Reviews you can go and check: a 4.9 out of 5 score on Trustpilot, and an “Exceptional” rating on Feefo. Both stood at those figures in September 2026.
• Public liability insurance covering both host formats, with documentation available to venues on request.
• Cancellation terms published in full, before you pay anything.

About Buff Boyz

Buff Boyz runs mobile party entertainment for private celebrations and group events nationwide. There is no venue to travel to—a house, an apartment, a holiday let, a hotel suite, wherever the group already is, that is where the host turns up.

Cocktail making classes sit alongside buff butler hire, hen party life drawing and male stripper bookings, all available in Sheffield and across South Yorkshire.

You can reach the team on 0330 133 0297 or at info@buffboyz.co.uk. Buff Boyz is based at Blake House, 18 Blake Street, York, YO1 8QH.

There is more on the About Buff Boyz page about how the company works, and the whole range sits at Buff Boyz. The Buff Boyz Events Team looks after this page.

Terms and Conditions

All bookings are taken under our full terms. They set out how a booking is confirmed, when deposits and balances fall due, what happens if a date changes or is cancelled, the age rule for guests, the boundaries our hosts work within, and what the booker takes responsibility for—checking the venue allows entertainers being one of them.

Have a read of the Terms and Conditions before you confirm a Sheffield class. If something does not read clearly, put the question to us while it is still a question.

Privacy and personal information

What you tell us at quote or booking stage—a name, a way to reach you, the address the class is happening at—goes towards pricing the job, confirming it and sending the right host.

The Privacy Policy covers what is collected, why it is needed and how long it is held.