8 Fun Decks of Cocktail Cards
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Cocktail cards make a great add-on gift for cocktail lovers. They’re also a great way to learn new cocktail recipes and add a fun new element to evenings of entertaining.
These are little decks of recipe cards for cocktails, and they’re fun novelty items. You may even get started collecting them!
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- Best Overall: 7 Grand Cocktail Cards
- The Deck for Fantasy Lovers: Cocktail Expert’s Cocktail Recipe Cards
- Most Stunning Drink Photos: Briston Cocktail Recipe Flash Cards
- Best for Actual Card Games: Ridley’s Gin Rummy Deck (you can actually play a card game with these)
- Looks like an Actual Recipe Box: Fundamental Cocktails for the Home Bartender
- Best Budget Option: Cocktails Made Simple
- Tiny Cards on a Keychain: Welcome to Las Vegas Pocket Drink Recipes Cards on Keychain Ring
Beyond the novelty, there are a couple of nice things about cocktail cards. They’re small and they weigh less than books if you want to take them somewhere. Also unlike books, you can arrange them in the order you prefer.
In fact, you could even assemble your own book from them. Make it scrapbook style, or get sheet protectors like people use for trading cards.
Beautiful Cocktail Recipe Card Decks
This is the best overall set because it has soooo many recipes, complete with histories and all the tips you need, and even QR codes that take you to videos to show you how the drinks are made.
- 100 recipe cards in flashcard form
- Simple step by step instructions with QR codes you can scan to watch an instructional video
- Each cocktail gives a brief history of the origin story of the cocktail. Some of them have fascinating stories
- If you're trying to memorize drink recipes, these are flashcard style so you can be quizzed on them
This is a beautiful set for anyone whose tastes run toward a fantasy aesthetic. The cocktail photos are beautiful, the dark backgrounds are alluring and the font is baroque yet readable.
- 50 recipes of popular cocktails
- Cards are high quality and oversized - like a tarot deck instead of playing or trading card size
- High gloss finish with anti-scratch lamination on the box
- Includes a table of contents by alcohol type
This card collection features a lot of the classic cocktails. Recipes are deliberately simple to reduce the frustration of finding a delicious one and realizing you don't have everything you need to make it.
- 40 cards
- Recipes are kept simple - no long lists of ingredients you don't have on hand
- Includes tips that teach you the basics of tending bar, the tools you need and essential mixing techniques
- Cards organized by spirit so you can easily find the drink you're in the mood for
This set gives you 52 cards of very popular cocktail recipes, all easy to follow. Unlike some of the other sets, these are horizontal, like recipe cards. What you're getting is a box that sits up like a recipe box, full of cards you can can sort and pull out.
- Kitchen safe: made from a water resistant material in case you splash or spill on them
- Shopping list included on each cocktail recipe, so you'll know at a glance what ingredients you need
- Some of the recipes call for very niche ingredients you may not have on hand. You may see this as a downside or as a plus, if you're looking to expand your bar collection.
This cute Las Vegas themed traveling set is small and already hole punched with a ring to go on your keychain. Never be without a fun new drink recipe again!
- Over 90 popular drink recipes, flashcard style, all in alphabetical order and on a ring
- Dimensions: 0.8 inches (H) x 1.5 inches (W) x 3.8 inches (L)
- The front of each card features the drink name, and you flip it over for the recipe
- Comes with a blood alcohol chart that helps you guess your level by your weight and the number of drinks you've had
- Note that one reviewer has a video showing that the Cape Cod recipe also appears on the Cosmopolitan Recipe card
This collection has absolutely gorgeous photos of the drinks. Great for getting an idea of what they're supposed to look like, or just because you want beautiful photos of drinks!
- 52 recipe cards in flashcard form
- Stunning photos of the drinks instead of illustrations
- Simple step by step instructions
- Printed on premium water resistant cardstock paper
- If you're trying to memorize drink recipes, these are flashcard style so you can be quizzed on them
This is a beautiful deck, but fair warning: some eyes will find the script fonts hard to read. That said, one side of each cards has a recipe, and the flip side has alcohoi related trivia. You could definitely make a fun trivia game with these.
- 52 cards
- Recipes are kept simple - no long lists of ingredients you don't have on hand
This deck contains 54 cards with illustrations of gin-related ingredients like lemon and cucumber, and recipes for gin cocktails. Be aware not every card contains a recipe, so you are not getting 54 recipes.
What you are getting is a fun alternative deck for card games.
- 54 cards
- You can actually play card games with these! They're standard sized.
- Comes with a storage tin
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