Occasion
New Year cocktails
New Year's drinking is really just celebration drinking at its most concentrated — sparkling wine, a toast-worthy pour, something you can raise at midnight without needing to explain it. We've only just added this as its own occasion tag, so the list below is still filling out; the celebration and party pages cover a lot of the same ground right now.
What new year drinks have in common
Measured across the 7 recipes on this page, compared with the rest of the site.
- Strength
- Stronger than average — a median of 13% in the glass against 10% across the rest of the site.
- Difficulty
- 43% are rated easy, against 63% across the rest of the catalogue.
- Alcohol-free and low-alcohol
- 29% of this list is alcohol-free or low in alcohol, so there is something to serve everyone without making a separate drink.
