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- Okay.

(upbeat music) The alchemy of glass, from liquids to solid, is just amazing.

Hi, I'm Eva Goodman, and I am a glass blower, glass artist.

I work in glass and today I am gonna show you how I make a glass.

To me, it's very dance like.

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(upbeat music) The first step I do when I come in, in the morning to blow glass would be to turn the oven on first because it takes a while to get to the temperature that matches the temperature of the glass when I'm putting it in the oven.

There we go.

(upbeat music) It's important to know the tools you're working with, I'll try out everything and see how it works.

I wanna know where everything is to set up the choreography.

When everything's hot after I've set up, I'll go over to the pipe warmer and rotate my pipe to collect the size of what I want to make.

(upbeat music) When you gather your glass, you have to keep turning so it doesn't drip off the pipe or turn into a shape that you don't want.

Every preliminary step is made with the intention of what the final object is.

So today I'm going to use the marver table for my shape.

Give a puff of air, roll it again to control the shape, and then heat in the glory hole.

(upbeat music) When it's really hot, I'll go over to the optic mold and blow real hard to get the shape that I want.

(upbeat music) After I shaped the glass, I've taken a lot of heat out and wouldn't be able to continue.

So I have to go over to the glory hole to reheat my glass for the next step.

So I have my hot glass on the pipe.

And to apply the color, I'll heat it until it's moving enough to apply clear glass on the pipe.

And while it's heating, it's going to form little spots and that's how I get my dots.

(upbeat music) So after I have my color applied, I'll heat it in order to blow it up to the size and the shape.

Then I'll flatten the bottom and I'll go get the punty rod.

The punty rod is what you attach the glass to in order to open the lip of the glass.

(upbeat music) After I have the glass on the punty rod, you have to flash it so it stays on, and then give a little extra heat to the lip so you open the lip without distorting the shape of the entire glass.

(upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) When I'm finished, I'll walk the piece over to the knockoff area and I'll tap the rod.

I'll take the hot torch and torch the punty mark so it's not sharp later.

I'll use the tongs and I'll place the glass in the annealing oven until the next day.

Okay.

After this glass is made, it's going to go on to another person's hands and she will give it a life of its own.

(gentle music) - So I'm one of these like poly-hyphenate people where I'm an artist, my background is in theater, I'm a mixologist.

So me being here on the farm is a really natural state for me.

(gentle music) I feel very at home in a place where I can be harvesting all of the ingredients and I'm really creating an experience, not just a drink.

(gentle music) Welcome, my name is Willa van Nostrand.

I'm Little Bitte Artisanal Cocktails.

We're here today at the beautiful Osamequin Farm in Seekonk, Massachusetts, and I'll be transforming this incredible vessel by Eva Goodman into a gorgeous cocktail.

(upbeat music) So today we'll be making a drink called the Bramble, a blackberry bramble to be exact.

And it's a really great example of a sour, a cocktail that has base spirit, sweetening agent, maple in our case, and lemon juice.

(upbeat music) It's really important for me to follow my garden to glass aesthetic and philosophy.

(upbeat music) This morning I picked fresh blackberries out in the field and I picked dahlias and I picked fresh mint and I picked cosmos.

(upbeat music) Everything that you see on this table is an edible garnish and can be put into one of the cocktails or mocktails that I make.

All right, so first step will be juicing a lemon.

(gentle music) (gentle music continues) Okay, so two parts gin.

One part sweetening agent, this is our maple.

This happens to be from this farm.

Now part of the magic of this recipe is fresh blackberry.

Ours are from the farm.

You'll need five berries in your tin.

So we're gonna do a bit of a muddle to incorporate the juice into this beverage.

(gentle music) Okay, now, ice.

I've got some big cubes.

All right, top tin.

Hold your bottom shaker.

Hold your top shaker.

Clasp over the top, kind of at a diagonal angle.

Then hold the bottom tin from the bottom, get a little grip there, and then right hand upside down to clasp this, and then this whole vessel shifts over your right shoulder.

Got it?

Okay.

So.

One.

All right, large tin on the bottom.

Break your seal.

Let your liquid drip into your top tin.

While that's happening, really, glass is prepped.

This beautiful Eva glass with the chartreuse dots.

Looks pretty good to me.

Now for one of my favorite parts, garnishing.

Two berries on there, that is the tradition.

And then I was thinking, why not some fresh blossoming mint?

And she's beautiful.

The glass influences what I make by being this special one-off, hand-blown object.

This is art right here.

So is what's inside.

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