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Our best batch-made cocktails for stress-free hosting

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Posted 25 Sep 2025

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J’aime Cardillo

A punch bowl of Raspberry Tequila Sangria, garnished with lime wheels and raspberries

Dig out that punch bowl and get ready to mingle – these party-sized pours are here to save the day.

Prepping for a party is either something you live for or your idea of hell. Either way, if you’ve committed to hosting, the secret to success is all in the planning, whether it’s a catch-up with a few mates or a house full of people you really want to impress. So, what kind of friends would we be if we let you host without reminding you that you can scale up your favourite cocktails for a group?

If you’re putting on the food (dialling it in totally counts) there’s a good chance you’ve already got enough to do. So, when it comes to the drinks, we’re all about serving up fresh, crowd-pleasing cocktails in bulk. The type of drinks that can be made ahead or thrown together in a jug or punch bowl that demand healthy handfuls of fresh herbs and fruit as garnishes (all prepped ahead, of course). Even better? Guests can serve themselves.

If that sounds like your kind of entertaining, take your pick from 12 of our favourite batched cocktails that are guaranteed to please and free you up to enjoy your own party.

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1. Sparkling Strawberry Punch

Pull out that punch bowl (or go and visit grandma), because our Sparkling Strawberry Punch recipe is a certified crowd pleaser. It’s easy, too – just strawberries, zesty lemon juice, Aperol, grapefruit juice, soda and moscato, which brings a sweet spritzy kick, before being decorated with fresh strawbs and mint leaves. If this one is skewing a little too sweet for you, you can always swap out that moscato for a drier style of sparkling or even Champagne, if you want to zhuzh it up.

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2. Spiced White Negroni

Cocktail queen Kayla Saito has made the ultimate freezer-batch cocktail in the Spiced White Negroni – think a honeyed White Negroni. Kayla’s secret? Chai tea. Then you need gin (don’t forget to experiment here), Amaro Montenegro and Lillet Blanc Aperitif. Garnish with a white chocolate shard and some orange zest. Kayla swears by batching this as she says it means each serve will be consistent, and her top tip for batching five or more serves is to lower the salt.

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3. Cranberry Limoncello Spritz

It’s official, we’re dubbing the Cranberry Limoncello the Spritz of summer. And made with limoncello, prosecco, cranberry juice and soda, it offers serious bang-for-buck because a these few ingredients give you multiple serves. Throw in some fresh citrus fruit and you have a zingy refresher. This Spritz is at home in a jug, and placed slap-bang between a plate of snags, steaks and a few burgers. Who’s bringing the potato salad?

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4. Pineapple & Gin Punch

Don’t be intimidated by the ingredients list for this punch, it really is a piece of cake. The key is to infuse the gin with jasmine tea bags – you just need half an hour up your sleeve. From there, all you need to do is add the rest of the ingredients into a punch bowl or jug and stir. Just remember that ice cubes will melt faster than you can say Pineapple and Gin Punch, so you want a large block of ice that won’t dilute the flavour.

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5. Sangria

Perhaps the OG batch-made punch, Sangria just doesn’t miss in a group setting. A set-and-forget cocktail, grab a jug, all you need to do is simply add all the ingredients in and stir. Not to harp on about the preparation, but Sangria is always better if you give the flavours a chance to develop, so pop in it in the fridge a few hours before your guests arrive (if you can leave it overnight, that’s even better).

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6. Freezer-Door Martini

You know we love a Martini as much as the next person, so we’ve put together a recipe that a) you can’t mess up and b) can be batched for a group. That’s what we call a win-win. This recipe makes eight serves, and all you need is gin, vermouth, some water and enough glassware for your mates. Brine level and garnish of choice? Well that, our friends, is totally up to you.

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7. Raspberry Tequila Sangria

The Raspberry Tequila Sangria is what you get when you cross Sangria with a Margarita (yum). So, if you’re leaning toward tacos for your game-day menu, we say go all in with this take on two of our favourite drinks. The blanco tequila, rosé and ginger ale meld together to make (dare we say) the perfect punch. Just be sure to prep an hour before kick-off – there’s a syrupy base that needs time to do its thing.

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8. Pimm’s Cup

Ah, the Pimm’s Cup. An English icon. Obviously you’re going to need a bottle a Pimm’s No.1 Aperitif, along with some dry ginger ale and a bottle of lemonade. You want to pack your (tall) glass with slices of strawberry, an orange wedge, cucumber slices and mint leaves, before adding your Pimm’s, lemonade and ginger ale. This recipe is for one, so to scale it up, simply increase the quantities by five and you’ve got yourself a tasty jug.

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9. Old Fashioned

Like the Negroni, scaling up the Old Fashioned for a group is a cinch. All you need to do is a little math (read: pull out your phone and open the calculator app). Do a quick head count and then multiply each core ingredient (leave out things like bitters) by the number of people in your party. When you stir or shake a cocktail, that ice adds dilution. We’re skipping that step so, instead, add 20% of your total batch volume as water, and you’ve got a big batch of Old Fashioneds.

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10. Negroni

Now, if you want to serve a round of Negronis on arrival, you absolutely do not have to make them one at a time. Not only can you batch up this baby (take your cues from our steps in the Old Fashioned), but you can make it days ahead of the event. How, you ask? Well, the gin, bitter orange liqueur and sweet vermouth all meld together beautifully, then all you need to do is whack your airtight container in the freezer ready to pour. *Nail emoji*.

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11. Pink Gin Fruit Punch

Forgotten about that bottle of pink gin you bought? Well, go and grab it because we’re making our famous Pink Gin Fruit Punch. This crowd-friendly cocktail could not be any easier to make – all you need is the pink gin, a bottle of sparkling rosé (go for a drier style), some grapefruit soda, and you’ve got yourself and your mates five servings of the prettiest punch. For our sweet-treat fans – swap out that rosé for a pink moscato.

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12. Mojito

If there was ever a time and place for a Mojito (like there’s ever a bad one), it’s on a spring afternoon. It’s got everything: mint, lime, white rum, a little sugar and maybe even a splash of soda – trust us, we’ve tried and tested a few recipes and reckon this is the best. Now that you’re a pro at scaling up a cocktail, the Mojito is another ideal contender – just add your ice and any soda when serving. Like a hit of spice? Finish it with a dash of bitters.