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Wow, what a night! 🤩 Last Thursday, we brought together our #GoodAndProperPartners, friends and colleagues for the return of The Proper Shake Up. Hosted at the beautiful Ozone Coffee Shoreditch site, the aim of this tea cocktail competition was to showcase JUST how exciting tea can be and boy, oh boy, our competitors didn’t disappoint. The talent on display was something else! Big thanks to the competitors for the time, effort and energy you poured into your showstopping creations: LJ Wellink from Restaurant Associates UK David Rickenback from Victoria Arduino Yuliia Nikolaieva from Saint Espresso Justine Stummel from CARAVAN COFFEE ROASTERS | B Corp™ Richard Floch from Walcot Stores Ross Armson from Saint Espresso And a massive congrats to the winners of The Proper Shake Up 2024: People’s Choice🏅: BAHADIR TASAR from Café Abraço Overall Winner🥇: Tereza Hladova from Jolene The standard across the board was very high - making it a challenging job for our judges! Thanks again to our expert judging panel for lending their palates for the night: Shiada Drysdale - Beverages Manager at Virgin Atlantic Deano Moncrieffe - Founder of Hacha and Mirror Margarita Sam Paget Steavenson - Founder of Botivo Drinks | B corp Emilie Holmes - Founder of Good & Proper Tea | B Corp™ Thanks to our friends for saving the day with drinks and snacks to keep us all fuelled: The Gipsy Hill Brewing Co Beavertown Brewery Lucky Saint | B Corp™ TRIP Double Dutch Drinks | B Corp Dalston's Soda Co. Kinda Co. simply roasted crisps BraveFoods Global To our Good & Proper Partner Ozone Coffee - thank you for hosting us at your gorgeous venue and for ensuring the night ran smoothly. And last, but certainly not least, a huge thank you to everyone who came down! It was wonderful to have SO many of you in the room to make the evening as amazing as we’d hoped it would be. Talk about coming back with a bang 💥 Cheers!🥂 See you same time next year? 📸: Rosie Lowery + Yuliia Nikolaieva