SodaStream Cocktails for the Festive Season and Saturday Nights In!

It’s time to get ready for the festive season with SodaStream. Whether you’re throwing an office party, having pre-Christmas drinks or just enjoying a "Saturday Night In", these quick, easy and refreshing bubbly cocktail recipes will be a hit.

Using just a SodaStream, some key ingredients and a dash of imagination you can easily recreate your favourite cocktail bar at home; a fun way to get friends and family together.

Spicy, fruity, zesty, refreshing or comforting – with Sodastream there’s something for everyone. Guests can even get creative and make their own bubbly drinks, experimenting with different flavours and tastes. 

Cocktail Recipes

* All recipes are fitted to 35 cl highball glass

* Method: shake, strain over ice, top up

Dutch & Bubbly

Set the mood and welcome your guests with a delicious aperitif to stimulate the appetite with a Dutch & Bubbly.

30ml                  Vodka

10ml                  Apricot brandy

10ml                  Fresh lime juice

20ml                  Ginger syrup

To finish top up with extra fizzy SodaStream Passion fruit & Mango soda.

Garnish: lemon peel and half a passion fruit

Mint & Red Berry Fizz

The Mint & Red Berry Fizz is made with Gin, the come-back spirit, and creates the perfect festive SodaStream cocktail for those with a more fruity-pallet

40ml                    Gin

20ml                    Lime juice

20ml                    Raspberry puree

20ml                    Sugar syrup

To finish top up with extra fizzy SodaStream Cranberry & Raspberry soda.

Garnish: mint sprig

Coffee Cooler

Take five and enjoy a Coffee Cooler; the ultimate liquid luxury pick-me-up.

40ml                  Whisky

20ml                  Kahlua

To finish top up with extra fizzy SodaStream sparkling water.

Garnish: grapefruit peel and coffee beans

Sodastream are currently the official sponsors of Saturday Night In with the fabulous Rylan giving us a recipe for his own delicious and fruity cocktail!  Staurday Nights In are perfect at this time of year when the weather is getting colder, the nights are darker and money is tighter.  With a bit of imagination you can enjoy a wonderful weekend with friends and family and a bit of extra fizz!!

Rylan's Passiontini

30ml Vodka
25ml fresh lime juice
15ml Vanilla Syrup
50ml passionfruit juice

To finish top up with 100ml Sodastream Ginger Ale Soda
Garnish:  passionfruit wedge

Holly Days

How about this ultimate refreshing festive tipple?  Make a pitcher for sharing among guests!

700ml chilled white wine
1 litre Sodastream Cranberry and Raspberry
125ml Grand Marnier
fresh raspberries

Put into a pitcher with ice and stir.  Pour into glasses and garnish with a sprig of mint.

Children can get in on the act too making some lovely mocktails which are fun, fruity and will make the kids feel very grown up and sophisticated!  These will also make great drinks for the non-drinkers in a group.

Tropical Sunrise

Sodastream Apple Soda
Passionfruit syrup
Sodastream Ginger Ale

Simply mix together and serve with ice.

Cranberry Fever

Sodastream Lemonade
Passionfruit syrup
Cranberry Juice
Sodastream Sparkling Water

Simply mix together and serve with ice.

Strawberry Delight

Sodastream Apple Soda
Banana Juice
Crushed fresh Strawberries

Simply mix together and serve with ice.

Top Tips

1.           Make sure you use ice-cold water when carbonating with your SodaStream and serve your festive cocktails over fresh ice cubes; this will significantly enhance the refreshing taste of your cocktails! (For cocktail parties allow ½ kg of ice per guest)

2.           Chill your glasses – not just to create an aesthetic Christmas ‘frost’ appearance but to also keep your drinks cooler-for-longer. Pop them in your freezer for 10-15 minutes or if you don't have space, fill with ice until chilled.

3.           Get the most out of your limes – by placing them under warm water and massaging them for a couple seconds before slicing and squeezing!

4.           Shake to the beat of your favourite festive tune – place 5-6 ice cubes per drink in a shaker. Shake vigorously on a slow count for 10 seconds and stop when the frost appears on the cocktail shaker.

5.           Don't overlook the garnish! Whether you are entertaining for an intimate evening at home or festive party make the drinks look as appetizing as they taste; presentation is key and actually enhances the flavours.

Sodastream want  to know what your Saturday Night In looks like would love you to Tweet them a photo using the hashtag #sodasaturday.

Sodastream Source - Simple, Smart, Sleek and Money Saving

It’s time to stop using throwaway plastic bottles and make way for SodaStream Source. Using tap water, Source creates a fabulous range of fizzy drinks, from classic colas and ginger beers through to cocktail mixers. Source makes shop-bought bottles a thing of the past, saving an average home 550 wasted bottles per year!

The Source is a smart, sleek and elegant addition to your kitchen, bringing you cheaper and healthier fizzy drinks at the press of a button. Whether you want to make fizzy water, or one of SodaStream’s own flavours of pop, the Source is an environmentally friendlier way to enjoy fizzy drinks. Powered by a refillable CO2 canister, Source’s responsive touch system allows you to create three levels of fizziness, clearly visible on an LED display, while a new Snap-Lock mechanism makes the system quick, simple and easy to use.

The top of the Source pushes down to put in the fizz and is a very effective method of carbonation.  It does squeak a bit when being used but my kids thought it added to the fun!  The bottles are very easy to attach to the Source and fit securely.  I love the design and the functionality of this new model and I like the fact that you have control over the level of fizz.  We obviously go for maximum bubbles...it's more fun with extra fizz! The Source comes with some samples of syrup so you can try out a few flavours.  My favourite is the Fizzy Orange and the Diet Cola.  The fizzy drinks can be kept in the fridge in the Sodastream bottle if they aren't all drunk at once!

SodaStream’s flavoured syrups offer a healthier alternative to bottled pop. With over 50 different flavours to choose from, you can customise your drinks to suit everyone’s individual tastes. SodaStream’s flavoured syrups offer a healthier alternative to soft drink brands too, with only 1/3 of the sugar and calories. The new range that contains Stevia offers a natural sugar free option for health conscious consumers. The Cocktail range allows adults to get in on the fun and create bases to which you can add alcohol.  Perfect with Christmas fast approaching.

What’s more, using SodaStream you can even create your own sparkling water. Buying bottled water is expensive, storing it takes us space and it is not an eco-friendly product.  You can produce fresh sparkling water whenever you want it using the Source, saving money as well as the planet!  

 SodaStream’s Pink Grapefruit flavour has just been awarded a Great Taste Award and we were sent a bottle to try out. The colourful pink, fizzy drink has real grown up appeal and is so refreshing. It's very different to other fizzy drinks on the market.  Kizzy really liked it.  Priced at about £4.50 it makes 12 litres of fizzy Pink Grapefruit drink.  That is great value for money.

With Christmas coming, investing in a Sodastream will mean you can enjoy fizzy drinks all season long.  No need to carry heavy bottles home from the shop and find somewhere to store them. Just make fizzy drinks to order by the bottle when you want them.  It's cheaper in the long run and it's a lot of fun!  Best of all though, you will be helping reduce the environmental impact of the production and disposal of plastic bottles!

The retail price for Source is £79.99 (plastic) and £129.99 (Aluminium), available at John Lewis, Argos, The Range, Lakeland, Robert Dyas, Currys Megastores, Dunelm Mill, Ocado, Amazon, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Harrods, The Conran Shop, ASDA, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, House of Fraser and Planet Organic. Here’s the website for more information: www.sodastream.co.uk

I'll be featuring some fun cocktail recipes and top tips for cocktail making in the run up to Christmas, so watch this space for some festive Sodastream fun!

We received the Source for the purpose of this review and future Sodastream posts..