Bartender’s Flair: 5 Easy Tricks To Make Cocktail-Making A Fun Experience
Cocktail-making is a very creative experience and involves dabbling in varied ingredients to come up with flavour combinations that make for tasty as well as balanced drinks. When one plans to host a gathering, crafting cocktails can be an interesting activity that host and guest can participate in together.
And while mixing drinks might seem like a tedious task involving lots of measuring, muddling and straining, there are some handy tips which can turn cocktail-making into an interesting exercise at a party. One can turn cocktail-making into an exercise in which all the guests can participate. They can also experiment with different ingredients and come up with their own unique blends at such an event.
Read on below to know more about some of the tricks that can be employed for turning cocktail-making into a fun experience:
DIY Cocktail Station
This one is a no-brainer when it comes to bartending. If one is hosting a party and is keen on turning the cocktail-drinking experience into an interesting affair, a DIY station is an excellent alternative. It is also particularly useful for those who are bartending enthusiasts and can help their guests to come up with different mixes.
A DIY cocktail station can be set up by including some juices like pineapple, mango, grapefruit and orange as well as flavourful ingredients like simple syrups and bitters coupled with good quality vodka, rum and tequila that can be incorporated in the blends.
Have about 250 ml of these spirits in store for a medium-sized gathering.
Using Unexpected Whimsical Ingredients
Another interesting trick to turn cocktail-making into an imaginative experience is to go for ingredients like smoked herbs, grilled fruits, chilli peppers and savoury juices which are rather quirky options for blending drinks.
This will not only bring a dramatic flair to cocktails but also inspire a bartending enthusiast to get more creative.
Offer small tasters of these components, so guests can find out more about their flavour profiles before adding them to drinks.
Themed Cocktails
At a cocktail party or an intimate gathering, the one element which would introduce a bit of fun into crafting drinks would be a theme. From a winter wonderland to a speakeasy theme to a tiki party, there can be ideas which determine the cocktails that will be prepared at a party.
Upon settling on this theme, the host can set up a DIY station featuring all the ingredients essential to build at least 2-3 cocktails which fit into the idea. With this, the cocktails will resonate more with the guests and they will be able to immerse themselves in making drinks which befit the theme of the gathering they are attending.
Prepare Mystery Bags
These would constitute small kits containing ingredients that none of the guests would know about. Each one would receive this mystery bag upon arrival and at the DIY cocktail station, they can be asked to open the bags and incorporate the mystery components into the drinks being prepared.
Mystery bags would bring a lot of spontaneity into cocktail-making as the assembled guests will have to rethink and reimagine the cocktails they would be preparing at the station in order to incorporate those ingredients artistically into the mix.
Drink responsibly. This communication is for audiences above the age of 25.
