HIRE A COCKTAIL MAKER

None, quite simply. This is just a matter of opinion of ones job role. A Bartender, a Cocktail Maker, or a Mixologist is essentially, the exact same thing. Their sole job role, is to make drinks for a guest & if anyone ever says otherwise, then they don't understand the role. 

Mixologists are rumoured to have accrued more specific knowledge , based around a particular product or niche. But as many mixologists would disagree, ultimately, they still make cocktails for a guest, just like a Bartender or a Cocktail Maker. 

We provide all 3 of these things, very easily, because they are the same thing. We have been providing Cocktail Makers for events for years now. Our director has been making cocktails at events for 20+ years. From the luxury hotels in London, to crazy locations around Europe, the Yachts of a Monaco F1. Right through, to the best & most favourite of all our events. The intimate event of usually less than 50 people, in a host's home. 

When to Hire a Cocktail Maker in 2023

Are you having a private party or event in the UK at your home? Are you needing something a bit more than your partner having their sleeves rolled up & spilling your guests drinks everywhere while trying to throw a shaker behind their back. Why be stressing about guests' drinks while you could Hire a Cocktail Maker in 2023 to do all this for you behind a bar. So you can be enjoying the event at your home & relaxing like the intended reason you had these parties in the first place.

This is exactly what we provide, Cocktail Makers for parties. No other way to dress it up than that. We’ll send a bartender, for a booked number of hours, to make cocktails for your guests behind a bar. 

Who are we?

We are a national company covering so much of the UK. Our company can reach London, Cities on the South Coast like Portsmouth or Brighton, The North, from Hull, to Manchester, Midlands, Birmingham, Coventry, The Cotswolds. Cocktailhire has cocktail makers situated everywhere so we can always try to ensure that we send someone that is local to you. This way we can make sure you save on travel costs. So you can have more budget to funnel into the fun things at your parties. 

We provide Cocktail Makers, and other bar services, on all kinds of events. From our most popular styles of events, the home parties. The kitchens, the Back Garden BBQ’s. Right through to larger scale culture based weddings with 600+ guests. 

They come at a premium, but we can also provide a Flair Bartender too, the ones that will throw bottles around & entertain your guests with all kinds of bottle based tricks. 

But our core of the business is in Cocktail Makers without the flair. 

Whatever else is required in the realms of cold drinks for your guests. 

A lot of clients, people enquiring have pre-conceptions about our bartenders potentially being Divas. Cocktail Makers that will only make cocktails. This is not the case, a Cocktail Bartender is there to make drinks for your guests. If this means opening a bottle of beer, no problem. If this means pouring a glass of Prosecco, no problem. Gin & Tonic, still… No problem. We have to be realists & draw the lines at thinks like Tea & Coffee. We are not there for that. (has happened before). But a Cocktail Maker from us, does not mean that they will only make cocktails & nothing else at your parties. 

Our Cocktail Makers are also going to intelligently gauge & work out the type of party that they are there for. And therefore the personality needed for the appropriate event. For example, a Cocktail maker sent to Hen Parties where they have deliberately set up a separate room for the bartender to serve drinks from. The Hens would most likely not appreciate a vibrant cocktail maker that keeps leaving their station to join in with their activities in other areas. Whereas, a Hen Group, that have created the centre piece to be about their cocktail maker, will want someone to be so much more upbeat & extroverted. 

The simple answer is YES. Please check this out on its own page right here. 

Although a Flair Bartender is an extremely niche requirement among people looking to book a Cocktail Maker. Post-Covid it's also a lot harder to find flair bartenders. Now luckily, our director is one. So there is always one within our business. However, this comes at a serious premium.

Flair bartending is a very rare skill for cocktail bartenders & booking out our Director for this, means he is not within the business running logistics that day. Or that day for example 4 bars were needed on the other side of the country. The premium would need to counteract that we’d need to recruit someone else to take care of all those logistics. So our Director can come do the Flair Event. 

Flair Bartenders are a thing we can provide if a client is very strong in their requirement for one. However, we aren’t going to shy away from the obvious fact. That this is a premium service that comes with a premium price tag & a minimum service requirement time of 4 hours. 

When you or your family members are hosting the event and trying to serve the guests drinks simultaneously, things can get hectic. We touched on this in a previous segment. 

You hosted this party or event so that you could be social, organise other things, or get the networking or team bonding going. Your efforts would be wasted, if you were then tying yourself to the bar area for the duration making drinks for guests instead of hosting them. 

Without having to run around after your guests, ensure drinks are well distributed from the bar, recharging glassware. You are free to chat to people. 

In addition, a lot of the time, (IF) the Cocktail maker has time, you’ll find they’ll attempt to take care of the floor around the bar too. And when possible, the cocktail bartender will have a run around the room to retrieve empty glasses & make sure there are no empties just lying about the place. 

Now to be sure we are sincerely accurate in our statement here, this isn’t an essential & paid for part of the service. We will not sell this service as floor clean up as part of the operation. If the server is too busy, it’s not within their remit to take care of this. But, as a job habit, they want to keep everywhere around them as organised & free of dead glassware not on the bar as possible. 

It was briefly touched on before. But having not only the Cocktail maker at the event to make sure usage of the drink is right. But also, with the backing of our office, you are receiving a much more precise shopping list, of exactly what is required for this event. This is going to take all of the guesswork out of the ingredients for this. You’ll know how much ice is needed, how much vodka, how many limes etc. This ultimately will stop you buying ingredients you don't need, buying too many of a certain ingredient. Or worse, potentially running out of cocktails at the event because the guesswork being put into a shopping list was incorrect. 

By using us to Hire a Cocktail Maker in 2023. We can make sure you have the list that will last you the duration of the event you’re booking us for & that the guests can enjoy cocktails, for the party duration intended.