DIY Mocktail Kit: Must-Haves For Your Festive Gift Hampers
Mocktails are surprisingly delicious, zesty, and flavoursome, evoking tapestries of taste and colour, akin to their alcoholic counterpart. If you are an innovative individual who admires a mild creative challenge or two, from time to time, then these DIY mocktail kit ideas and must-haves are perfect for ticking all the boxes on your festive gifting checklist.
A good mocktail kit requires nearly all accessories that a cocktail kit possesses – excluding the liquor.
- Cocktail Shaker
- Strainer
- Jigger
- Bar Spoon
- Glassware
- Muddler
- Y-Peeler
- Cocktail Pins
- Quirky Ice Cube Moulds
- Non-Alcoholic Mixers
Sophisticated Essentials For Making A DIY Mocktail Kit
Every mocktail enthusiast does not require a full mocktail-making hamper. Only the essentials or the best accessories are required to cherish and return to this thoughtful hamper time and again – making it a gift that is not only memorable, but also sustainable.
Homemade Syrups And DIY Mixers
Making and storing syrups at home is the best way of guaranteeing quality mocktail mixology. Packed with flavour, boiling sugar and water with herbs or spices of your choice can end up providing a unique profile to beverages. For mixers, it is ideal to include freshly squeezed, seasonal fruit juices or seltzer, to also serve as a common base. Pack them in mason jars and label them properly, with volume and best-before dates, to ensure a good mocktail-making experience.
Stunning Glassware
It would be unfair to give all credit to cocktails regarding beauty and visual appeal, as mocktails can be equally mesmerising. The key to showing off your mocktail’s beauty is by styling them in iconic glassware. If your mocktail recipe enjoys a colour gradient, like a virgin Mai Tai, then give them a hurricane or tiki glass. If the mocktail develops a solid, vibrant shade, include a set of slender or elongated vessels, like Tom Collins glass or Zombie glass in the mocktail hamper, to do justice to the beverage’s beauty.
Shake And Strain Essentials
Mocktails are mixed just like cocktails minus alcohol. Therefore, it is ideal to include some mixological essentials like a cocktail shaker, strainer and jigger with your DIY kit. They are not only classic, timeless essentials, but also help beginners get comfortable with brewing beverages before taking their mixology game to the next level. If your loved one is experienced in mixing drinks, then gift them some quirky ice cube moulds and a Y-peeler for perfect citrus peel garnishes.
Recipe Cards
Mocktail-making kits are incomplete without recipe cards. Unless calligraphy is your forte, write your recipes digitally and print them in cute, personalised themes. Laminate them and add them as cards or attach them to the neck of your homemade syrup with an adorable tag. Not only will the recipe card make it easy for the gifted individual to make the intended mocktail recipe but will also serve as a timeless reminder of a caring and touching present.
Tips For Making Your Gift Hampers Unique
- If your gift hamper is going to be shipped long distance, avoid adding any perishable fresh items, juices or garnishes. Also keep shipping weight in mind before adding bulky mixing tools, heavy or delicate glassware.
- It is ideal to add more fun and lighter mocktail-making equipment, such as quirky bar tools, dried garnishes, cocktail picks, fancy spices and sugars and more.
- If your gift hampers will be delivered in person, or handed out as party favours, then the sky and your budget are the limit to creativity and aesthetics, especially when it comes to making a DIY mocktail kit.
Do remember that like everything, alcohol is best consumed in moderation. Always drink and serve responsibly!
