Here’s How To Craft Instagram-Worthy Tripole Cocktails With These Six Presentations Tips
Indulging in mixology at home is now as much about the art of crafting delicious drinks as about showcasing your art to the world. Instagram is a hive of such activity and most times, all our DIY projects end with clicking aesthetic pictures of our finished product that would go up on our profile or story. So when you are crafting cocktails, undoubtedly, you would want to make them appear beautiful – and Instagrammable.
There are several ways to make cocktails look sinfully seductive in pictures. One way to do this is to look for the right angle so your drinks appear luxe, the other is to get your lighting right. And when it comes to showing off a drink, the surest way to make it pop is to up your garnish game. Tripole cocktails, or cocktails with three stunning ingredients are simple to make and delicious to taste but when you want to showcase them to the world, there are ways to make them look pretty too!
Read on below to know more about some presentation tips and tricks that would make your three-ingredient cocktails shine through all the noise on the gram:
Chocolate And Sprinkles Rim
One of the ways in which you can highlight your creamy or sweet cocktails made from simple ingredients is by adorning them with a sprinkled rim garnish. Use an assortment of colourful sprinkles to make your glassware pop so it can throw off some amazing lights when photographed. You can also dabble in chocolate garnishes especially while crafting coffee cocktails that go heavy with their warm colours. A piece of tempered white chocolate can elevate your drink and make it stand out on your Instagram story.
Vibrant Backdrop
Another hack to make your uncomplicated drink presentable is to capture it against a very well-thought backdrop. When you make a drink with tropical ingredients, it’s always a great opportunity to create a backdrop with fruit slices or wedges scattered around the glass to make it appealing. Another useful trick when you are sharing a vibrant, colourful cocktail is to go with a subdued background so the colours in the drink pop out.
Cherries And Orange Peel Skewer
One more garnishing trick that highlights your drink is a clever skewer made out of cherries or raspberries intertwined in an orange peel. With this skewer placed artistically atop a tripole cocktail full of cognac and bitters, it will make the drink look all the more dignified and add a bit of elegance to your Instagram game. You can also dabble with other ingredients like blackberries and rosemary sprigs according to the colours and flavours in your cocktail.
Grilled Fruit Garnishes
When you are making smoked or grilled cocktails, that is simple drinks containing char grilled fruit juices, a brilliant way to garnish them is to have these fruits sit atop the drink. You can use grapefruit slices or lime wedges grilled on your barbecue or simply use a smoke gun to give the fruits some intense notes. Click pictures while the fruits are still smouldering so you manage to catch the vapours oozing out.
Glassware Supreme
One of the most important ways you can make your drink thoroughly Instagrammable is by pouring it in the right glass that throws off its colours in flattering ways. You can use a Glencairn or rocks glass to show off a whisky cocktail. And when it comes to wines, have long stemmed glasses handy to make the colours of a Singleton Plus Two pop bright or the bubbles in your mimosas to shine proud.
Sugar And Spice
Craft crusta cocktails out of three ingredients, basically cocktails with a sugar rim that would stand class apart due to their elegance and sophistication. You can photograph the sugar rimmed glasses when they are used for dark coloured cocktails because the white sweetener will stand out against the deep hue. Another secret ingredient to elevate your garnish game is spices. Cinnamon sticks and a whole star anise look really cute when they adorn cocktail glasses so you can use them especially in festive drinks for their photogenic attributes.
