A Brooklyn Lab Coat Party Where Beakers Hold the Cocktails
Guests pull on lab coats, split into two teams, and run experiments for points while a DJ works the room.
The lab coat is thin, disposable, and handed to you at the door. That one prop does most of the work here. Once everyone in a Brooklyn warehouse is wearing one, a room of strangers starts behaving like a class that has decided to misbehave.
The Drunken Laboratory runs ninety minutes. A crafted drink comes first, then the room splits into two teams and the scoring begins. Experiments, trivia, karaoke, and games run back to back with a live DJ underneath all of it. The winning side is announced as Tipsy Top of the Class, which tells you how seriously the evening takes itself.
Tickets are sold per person, one per traveler, and each one is tied to a fixed start time. The shared session holds up to 30 people, which keeps the format closer to a class than a club.
Seating is first come, first served, and a group is not seated until every person in it has arrived. The operator advises booking about a week ahead.
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You sign in, collect a lab coat, goggles, and gloves, and the first themed drink lands while people are still filing in. Then the room divides into two teams and the host starts calling rounds from the front.
Some of it is hands-on chemistry at the bench. Color changes, dry ice, things that climb over the lip of a flask. Expect around three experiments across the session, with trivia, physical challenges, and a karaoke stretch filling the rest. Correct answers win rounds. The people paying attention end up drinking more than the people who are not. The operator puts it plainly: the more you know, the more drunken you become.
The coat, goggles, and gloves stay on through every experiment.
The Room, the DJ, and the Crowd
The lab runs on blacklight. Steel benches, glassware that glows under UV, and a DJ booth where a lecture bench would be. Everything photographs saturated and slightly unreal. One guest laid out the running order as "a DJ (hip-hop and R&B, perfect!), drunk karaoke, science pop quizzes" (Christina McEachern, Google review, January 2025).
The format came out of a nonprofit. Founder Cautney Nelson was working as a lab scientist and running after-school STEM sessions for teenagers before launching the adult version in 2019. That lineage shows in the structure. Somebody is genuinely teaching the chemistry between rounds.
Thirty people is small enough that the host can work individual tables. Expect to be talking to the strangers on your team by the second round. Groups take it for birthdays. Pairs take it as a night out that asks for less sustained conversation than dinner does.
Food is not served during public sessions. Eat first.
What the Ticket Covers
One general admission ticket covers one person:
- Entry to the session
- One crafted drink, wine or a mixed drink
- One specialty shot
- Lab coat, safety goggles, and gloves
- All experiment instructions and materials
Entry is 21 and over, and that holds whether or not you are drinking. Mocktails and non-alcoholic versions are available to anyone who asks, and the operator states the activities are safe during pregnancy. The venue is listed as step-free, with wheelchair-accessible surfaces throughout and public transit nearby.
A session needs at least 20 people registered to run, and the lab says it cancels in advance and refunds in full in the rare case a slot falls short. Cancellation terms on this listing itself are final sale. Treat the start time you pick as the one you are committed to.
Getting to DeKalb Avenue
The lab sits at 1111 DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn, a short walk off Broadway. The J stops at Kosciuszko Street, which the operator puts at about a minute from the door. Several bus lines run the same stretch.
There is no parking on site. Street parking is limited, and the lab tells guests who plan to drink to take transit or a ride share.
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This listing runs Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM. The 6:00 PM session is finished by 7:30 PM, early enough that the whole night is still ahead of you.