Our 41 Best Gifts for Cocktail Lovers

Similar to our philosophy on the best chef gifts, we believe the best gifts for cocktail enthusiasts are ones they will regularly use when making drinks. We’re high on the timeless basics—shakers, glassware, and juicers—and the playful accessories like mixing glasses that make fun cocktail gifts. With that in mind, here are our best gift ideas for your favorite mixologist or friend who’s always shaking, stirring, and sipping something.

There’s a reason bars carry approximately 2,000 cocktail shakers: it makes it easier to quickly make more drinks for more people. For cocktail enthusiasts who enjoy hosting, a shaker or mixing glass is always a great gift.

If you’ve ever done any bartending or dinner party cocktail mixing, you know that a fundamental requirement of the job is cutting precisely one gazillion limes. Citrus slicing can be much more enjoyable, so long as you have a decent cutting board.

You’ve cut your gazillion limes—now you need to juice them. You could spend an entire afternoon painfully juicing them by hand, likely extracting only a fraction of the citrus’ juice. Or you could buy (and use) one of these juicers to save yourself time and ensure you’re collecting every drop of juice.

Thanks to these well-crafted, actually enjoyable nonalcoholic spirits, some of our favorite cocktails are booze-free.

Your friend spent all day meticulously batching your favorite margarita (or martini or negroni) recipe and now they’re going to pour it into some hideous, bulky, knock-off Gatorade cooler? That’s just not right. Instead, use this gorgeous drink dispenser from Crow Canyon.

Perfect for your friend who loves cocktails, but is just learning to make them. These sets have everything you need to start your bar cart in the right direction.

For frozen drink fans, a high-powered blender is perhaps the best home bar gift.

Good cocktails deserve great glassware. Luckily, we’ve got plenty of tumblers, pitchers, and glasses that fit the bill. And while we can’t exactly prove it, we’re nearly certain these glasses improve the flavor of whatever you’re sipping.

Bright, colored, maximalist glasses are just fun—and cocktail sipping should be the most fun. Keep aperitivo hour light, breezy, and a little bit funky with any of these vibrant glasses.

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