DIY Cocktail Kits With Alcohol

What goes into a DIY cocktail kit? Well, the basics of a cocktail are pretty simple. Take any base spirits, add great quality ingredients like bitters, herbs, fruits, syrups, and top it off with garnishing. Let’s look at it this way. Every cocktail kit has these three elements:

1. The Core: This is the primary flavor of your cocktail, depending on the base of spirit or liquor that you have chosen. Our cocktail kits include alcohol, and we procure the liquor for our cocktail boxes from the LCBO.

2. Modifiers: This is anything that modifies the core base spirit. For example this can be something that enhances the sweetness or the acidity or both. Think of liqueurs, herbs, sweeteners, cocktail mixers, citrus, and bitters here.  These modifiers make a unique gift experience for cocktail lovers. 

3. Garnishing: This is the final touch where you add an additional dimension to your cocktail with garnishes that engage the senses. We source the garnishes for our cocktails kits locally from Toronto. 

At 180 Drinks, we also include recipes along with your cocktail kit so that you can appreciate the finer nuances of making a cocktail. View our drink kits above to learn more about our cocktail box delivery service for Ontario, Canada. 

Toronto Cocktail Kits: Add Fresh Herbs And Spices

We include fresh herbs and spices to impart maximum flavour and echo the ingredients of your drink both aromatically and visually. 

Our DIY cocktail kits come with plenty of unique, tasteful accoutrements that make for the best gifts for cocktail lovers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Ontario!

Sweeteners For Use In Cocktail Kits

A sweetener of some type is almost always used in making a cocktail. 

Sometimes, you can also use pre-made sugar syrup. This simple sugar syrup works well, but we can also add honey or maple syrup to your cocktail. Other times a liqueur or vermouth can become the the cocktail sweetener. 

For our cocktail kits, we use sweeteners that are free from artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives. 

Garnishes When You Send Cocktail Gift

The cocktail often is not quite a cocktail without a garnish. The garnish helps to engage the sense of sight and smell to influence the overall perception of the cocktail. 

Some of the most common garnishes included with your cocktail gift are:

• Orange peels
• Grated cinnamon
• Cherries
• Thyme
• Rosemary
• Olives
• Lemon wedges
• Bitters

This way even if your giftee doesn’t want to go to the bar, they can create a bar experience  with a home cocktail kit delivery. 

Cocktail Making Kit With Glasses

A traditional cocktail glass should comfortably hold large ice cubes and the liquor. There are many varieties of cocktail glasses, but some of the most common cocktail glasses include the rocks glass or the lowballs glass. 

We can add a touch of class to your cocktail making kit by adding glassware specific to the cocktails being made.

At Home Drink Kits With Chocolate 

Some of the best cocktails get along very well with the best chocolates! Some chocolate and cocktail pairings that can get your heart aflutter include:

• Fruit chocolates with Mezcal cocktails
• Nutty chocolates with rye or Scotch whiskey
• Milk chocolates with rum
• White chocolate with gin

Adding chocolates to your home cocktail kit is highly recommended. 

Chocolate not your thing? Apart from chocolates, we offer other snacks as well to compliment our cocktail gift baskets. To learn more about the other food accompaniments consult the individual gift descriptions.

Personalized Gifts For Cocktail Lovers

We can personalize any of your cocktail gifts with a special message to the giftee. Typically we do cocktail kit delivery personalization for occasions and holidays like:

• Corporate Events
• Birthday’s
• Christmas 
• Valentines Day
• Anniversaries 

Add a note at the time of ordering and we will make sure the recipient gets it!