Meliora Forever offers tasty single-use cocktail cubes for making artisan-quality mixed drinks, cold or hot, your choice. You drop in a cube add your liquor of choice and enjoy. Perfect for the holidays and entertaining guests.

The best cocktails and mixed drinks tend to take a lot of work to prepare. You add the flavors or mixers, the garnish, mix them up and pour. But it’s usually a bit more complicated where you have to measure the right amounts, especially the artisan variety. If you’re playing bartender for yourself or family over the holidays Meliora Forever offers tasty, pre-formulated cocktail cubes that you can easily drop into a liquor of choice. Right now, the brand has a few kits available for winter, the cold weather, and the holiday season. The drinks can be served hot or cold, whichever you prefer and you can mix them with a beverage of choice. There are kits picked out specifically for mixing with vodka, whiskey, champagne, gin, rum, tequila, and more.

Hand made in small batches in Buffalo, New York, there are several kits, as mentioned, in varying quantities, as well. There are also some excellent gift sets, like the 12 Days of Christmas Calendar for whiskey mixing. Alternatively, there is a 12 Days of Christmas Calendar for Vodka or Champagne. If you’d rather find something delicious for yourself, there are other variety packs and gift sets to choose from.

How do Meliora Forever cocktail cubes work?

The pre-measured cubes are super easy to mix. Drop them in your drink and let them dissolve. Meliora recommends dissolving them in a small amount of warm water before mixing if you want a smooth, less grainy drink overall. You can also make the drink as strong or light as you want. Add the amount of liquor you prefer and if you want to tone down the strength, you can add mixers like club soda or seltzer.

The Winter Cocktails Gift Box includes six different flavors, and each flavor comes with eight cubes total making four to eight drinks of each flavor and 24 to 48 drinks total. It’s an excellent option for parties when you want to do some quick bartending and entertaining. Prices vary, it depends on which set you choose. It’s about $43 for a three pack, $17 for the single flavor packs, and the variety packs are up to $80 — like the Winter Cocktails set because it has so much.

Some of the flavors you can try include Christmas, a mix of black walnut, amaretto and cherry, Frosted Berries, with cherry and berry notes, Holiday Mimosa with cranberry and rosemary, Sugar Plum, Snow Day with coconut and a hint of chocolate, and Snickerdoodle with cinnamon and vanilla. The Snickerdoodle cube contains cane sugar, Old Forester smoked cinnamon bitters, cinnamon extract, ground cinnamon, vanilla extract and vanilla paste, just to give you some idea of the ingredients. They sound delicious, but really, it’s how easy they are to mix that’s got me excited. Just in time for the holidays, too.

Who is it for?

If you enjoy cocktails or mixed artisan drinks and want an easy single-use way to mix up new beverages for yourself or guests.

Where to buy?

MSRP: $17 single pack | $43 triple pack | $80 variety pack