There are few things more delicious, or celebratory, than a great cocktail – but making them at home takes time, skill, and sometimes lots of obscure ingredients. Thankfully, there’s a really great variety of pre-mixed kosher cocktails on the market, to suit all tastes and tolerance-levels. Here are five of the best…
Miami Arak's hard sodas come in for fruity flavours (Photo: Miami Arak)[Missing Credit]
Miami Arak seltzers
Hard seltzers are all the rage with trendy (and calorie conscious) drinkers, and these cans from Miami Arak capture all the fun and flavour of a night out in Tel Aviv. Blending the classic aniseed-flavoured spirit with carbonated water and four different fruity flavours – grapefruit, watermelon, mango and pineapple-coconut – they are just 5% ABV per serving (around the same as a standard beer or cider).
Cooloo frozen cocktail pops are the ideal way to cool down in a heatwave (Photo: Cooloo)[Missing Credit]
Cooloo frozen cocktail pops
A frozen cocktail in ice pop form? Sign us up! Cooloo frozen cocktails are seriously fun, and just the thing to get you through a heatwave. Each pop is 5% ABV, and they’re available in four classic cocktail flavours – including the rum-based Mai Tai, tequila-based Paloma and the tropical classic, Pina Colada – meaning there’s a flavour profile for every taste.
Bartneura wine spritzers come in a variety of delicious flavours (Photo: Bartenura)[Missing Credit]
Bartenura cans
If wine spritzers are your thing, look no further. Italian wine brand Bartenura has a brilliant range of canned drinks, which all come in at 5% ABV. Featuring their signature moscato wine – a sweet, lightly sparkling Italian white wine made from the ancient Muscat Blanc grape – you can choose from lychee, peach or blueberry moscato, orange mimosa or peach bellini – any of which would go down a treat at a picnic or BBQ.
Order bespoke Swizl cocktails direct to your door (Photo: Swizl Cocktails)[Missing Credit]
Swizl cocktails
You may already be familiar with Swizl cocktails, a kosher mobile bartending company, from a simcha – but now you can also enjoy its expertly mixed cocktails in the comfort of your own home. Last year, Swizl founder Motty Erlich launched his own brand of premixed kosher cocktails – and while they’re no longer available in shops (due to production issues), he’s still taking bespoke orders directly. Choose from eight different cocktails, including lychee martini, relax on the beach and mango star – with a minimum order requirement of five bottles per flavour. Orders can be placed via email to info@swizl.co.uk.
BuzzBallz are a Gen-Z favourite (Photo: BuzzBallz)[Missing Credit]
BuzzBallz
While BuzzBallz are decidedly neither chic nor sophisticated, these garish plastic cocktail balls are both surprisingly kosher and terrifyingly ubiquitous – available in practically every newsagent and major supermarket nationwide. All the rage with Gen Zers, they come in a dizzying array of flavours – from chilli mango margarita to espresso martini – and are 13.5% ABV (about the same strength as most table wines).
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