The best cocktail kits and bottled cocktails for delivery
Making cocktails at home can be an involved process - if you want to make a wide range of different drinks, you have to have a truly well-stocked home bar, and that can be an expensive process. Although we very much enjoy making our own cocktails, there are times when it makes sense to streamline the process, and that's where these delicious pre-made cocktail kits and bottled cocktails come in. Made by expert mixologists, they're delivered straight to your door with everything you need for a perfect cocktail hour - just add ice!
1/13Heads + Tails
Smart West Hampstead bar Heads + Tails has recently moved into the bottled cocktail market, with a selection of classic cocktails that range from the strong and serious (Old Fashioned, El Presidente) to light and fruity (Cosmopolitan, Peach Daiquiri). They come in large sizes that will serve about five cocktails (£34.99), or smaller single serves (£7.99), so you can commit to the drink you love or buy a few and try some different things. The stylish bottles would make excellent gifts.
2/13Hawksmoor
One of the more stylish collections of bottled cocktails out there comes from legendary steak restaurant Hawksmoor, who are sending out sets of classic cocktails (pictured here), as well as Hawksmoor signatures. You can buy four mini bottles like these for £48 or larger 500ml bottles for £32 each. Perfect for stocking the fridge for Christmas guests.
3/13Crockers Henley
The team at Crockers Henley are sending out home-batched bottled cocktails as part of their ‘Crockers at Home’ initiative. Mixed by their ex-Fat Duck mixologist, Ryan Osnowski, who has been putting together bottles of mixes including; Old Fashioned, Espresso Martini, Margarita, Negroni, Manhattan, Maverick Martini, Cosmopolitan and Daiquiri. Prices start at £12 per bottle or £33 for the 'Party Collection' (pictured).
4/13Lockdown Liquor & Co.
We've all had the dreaded experience of reaching for your bottles to make a cocktail, only to find you're missing a key ingredient. That's where Lockdown Liquor can step in. The company was founded in 2020, first as an accompaniment for a Zoom with the founders' friends before becoming the high end brand it is now. Working with top mixologists, Lockdown Liquor offers eight pre-blended, bottled cocktails, with familiar favourites such as an Old Fashioned mixing amongst more on trend tipples like a Picante. Available in three bottle sizes – from two servings to 15 – the website also cleverly stocks barware and lovely glasses too.
5/13The Green Cocktail Club
The team behind Sapling have launched a cocktail subscription box, complete with everything you could possibly need for a perfect tipple. Alongside their vodka, which is made in London using local ingredients – thus making it a more sustainable brand than its competitors – and the ingredients for that month's cocktail, there's also a cocktail shaker and measure so you'll have everything you'll need for the assigned recipe. It's the most wonderful thing to arrive via post.
6/13The Botanist x Buck & Birch
The Botanist gin has teamed up with foraged liqueur purveyors Buck & Birch for a wild cocktail collection, consisting of three unique cocktails exploring the Scottish landscape, making use of each of Buck & Birch's three small-batch liqueurs: the Ramble, the Amagroni, and the Plants & Quincidence. The kit brings you three stylish pre-bottled cocktails for £29.
7/13Fergus Henderson's 'Fergroni'
8/13The Cocktail Delivery Company
The Cocktail Delivery Company stocks a wide-range of pre-bottled cocktails, from classics like the Espresso Martini and Pina Colada, to signature drinks of their own devising. Prices start at £12.99 for two serves, and you can go all the way up to their party packs, which start at £248 for 20 guests.
9/13Pale Fox
Italian sparkling wine maker Pale Fox has produced a Christmas Spritz Pack in time for the festive season, containing everything you need to create six servings of a festive cocktail from the comfort of home. Combining wintery flavours of orange and cranberry with the bitter notes of an Italian Amaro, the cocktail is topped off with Pale Fox wine and a dried orange garnish. The box costs £42.95 including delivery.
10/13Cocktails in the City
Cocktails in the City, usually a weekend-long celebration of the cocktail that brings many bars together under one roof, has launched an at-home box containing three drinks, a pink peppercorn and yuzu Cosmo, a peach and jasmine Gimlet, and a cacao and cherry Bencini. Pre-mixed in handy squeezable (and recyclable) pouches, the cocktails couldn't be easier to make. The box for one includes three drinks at £21.50 and a box for two includes six drinks at £35.
11/13The Sun Tavern x Discount Suit Company
Created by the award winning teams at The Sun Tavern and Discount Suit Company, these small batch pre-bottled cocktails will be sure to impress even the best bartenders. Available for national and international delivery, the Quarantini cocktail kits include eight classic cocktails; an Irish Old Fashioned, Toreador, Margarita, Rob Roy, Sazerac, Banana Daiquiri, Boulevardier and Penicillin in pre-bottled packs, ready to be stirred and served from the comfort of your kitchen. All those within a three mile radius can also order same day delivery by The Sun Tavern team until midnight every night of the week. The packs cost £30 for 2 cocktails or £50 for 4.
12/13BoroughBox
Independent food marketplace BoroughBox has come up with a Margarita kit for this Christmas, featuring everything you need to make this iconic cocktail: full size bottles of Cointreau and VIVIR Tequila, Maldon sea salt, a Cointreau cocktail shaker, strainer, jigger, a lime squeezer, VIVIR bar mat and a enamel pin. All for just £64.99
13/13J&B Rare
Whisky makers J&B Rare have created a Seasonal Sours Collection cocktail kit in collaboration with Cocktail Porter! The kit includes all the ingredients to shake up six whisky sour cocktails, including 2x Burnt Pineapple Sours, 2x Walnut & Cinnamon Sours and 2x Spiced Apple Sours. Simply shake the ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker and strain into a rocks glass. The box costs £41.95.
