Founder of The Mixing Class & WSET Educator

Hannah Lanfear is considered a preeminent force in the world of spirits education, having delivered seminars the world over, and taught WSET Spirits courses to as many as two thousand industry folk.

She joined Speciality Drinks as their Advocacy Manager, to build and implement an advocacy programme. With two decades of industry experience, spanning both elite cocktail bars and as an international brand ambassador, in 2017 Hannah cut an independent path and founded The Mixing Class, a company dedicated to delivering spirits education to the cocktail and spirits industry. Founded on the principle that education is a powerful tool to better the equity of opportunity in our trade.

Hannah is an O icial Cognac Educator; Armagnac Educator to the UK; is listed in the IWSC & WSET’s Future 50; is #38 on the Bar World 100 ’22; Imbibe magazine’s Educator of the Year 2019.