How To Make Delicious Festive Cocktails Without A Shaker |
Friends laughing and drinking cocktails.
The thought of making cocktails for your friends and family right from your own home is extremely glamorous but in reality, you could end up playing mixologist for the evening and not getting a chance to actually enjoy the company of your loved ones.
Cocktail expert Abi Clephane from Bruichladdich Distillery agrees. She says: ”“I love the theatre of shaking cocktails,
“But when you’ve got people arriving in waves, you want drinks that taste brilliant without needing to stand there making each one like you’re on a shift. Christmas should be fun for the host too.”
Plus, how many of us just have a cocktail shaker kicking about?
The bottle-and-freezer method that replaces shaking entirely
Clephane says her number one hack is to pre-dilute your cocktails, bottle them, and then freeze them.
She explains: “Make your cocktail exactly as you normally would, same ingredients, same ratios, and then just add