What’s the Best Cocktail of the Month Club?
Reviews & Buyer’s Guide

• Best match for: Cocktail lovers after a treat-worthy tipple every month.

One thing we love about American Cocktail Club is the company's flexibility. Choose a subscription service from one month, one year, or any time period in between. In addition, you can select an Everything Box — which, as the name suggests, contains everything you need — or boxes with mixers and extras but no spirits.

Choosing the latter option means a lower cost and you simply purchase your own booze and use the recipe for more beverages later on. The Everything boxes are better if you'd rather not have the ability to make an excessive number of delicious drinks (or your liquor cabinet is already too full). With four 50 ml spirit bottles in each, it's the perfect amount for just four cocktails.

Your monthly box also contains a bar tool of some sort, garnishes, information, and mixers. Mixers are often carbonated or juicy in nature so may suit people who prefer long drinks. Booze lovers who prefer to elevate the spirits by keeps mixers out of the picture might suit a different service.

• Best match for: Modern cocktail kits from the coolest bar keepers across the nation.

Like the option above, Cocktail Courier lets you choose whether you want the whole kit and caboodle or just the extras. If you go down the latter route, you'll still receive plenty to make you smile. Designed by the nation's leading mixologists, each cocktail box contains fresh herbs, syrups, tonics, and other nifty ingredients.

In many ways, the Chicago-based service is more modern than many others on our list. We appreciate the nod to classic cocktails but laud the forward-thinking the company is known for.

Don't think you can handle a complicated drink? No problem as the included recipe card will walk you through the drink-making process step by step. Whether it's bruising some mint, muddling some limes, or flaming some orange peel, you're sure to pick up some new tips and tricks from Cocktail Courier you can apply to your own inventions.

If you choose the full cocktail box with spirits included, there's enough booze in there to make around 6 to 8 drinks, which we appreciate.

• Best match for: Refind cocktail lovers who want more fancy drinks every month.

Granted, Crafted Taste is more expensive than most of the other options on our list here, but the cost will definitely be worth it for many people as you can simply make more cocktails. And when you compare the spend with buying these drinks in a bar it really is a no-brainer.

We love Crafted Taste for multiple reasons, not least because the company includes some really niche, quality ingredients in its recipes. Want to test small-batch American made specialty syrup alongside your gin? This is the package of choice.

The alcohol products you receive are also full-sized, so if you have any left after mixing your drinks, you can stash these in your cabinet for a rainy day. Not that you'll get bored as each Crafted Taste shipment comes with ingredients for several different cocktails, follow the instruction cards to whip up cool and creative tipples with ease.

In addition to a subscription, you can purchase one-off boxes for gifts or if you're headed to a party. On offer at the moment are classic drinks like the old fashioned, Manhattan, and Moscow mules boxes.

• Best match for: Discerning drinkers after flexible cocktail recipes.

We have to hand it to SaloonBox; it offers customers an unusual yet welcome service by letting them know in advance which cocktail recipes are included in their box before it arrives. If you don't like SaloonBox's picks, you have the option to switch to another option.

One can only imagine the organizational finesse that goes on behind the scenes. It's not just each monthly box that is flexible either, you can choose between 3, 6, and 12-month prepaid subscription boxes.

Every month, your package contains two different cocktails along with everything you need to create the drinks. Like all the companies we reviewed, if you live in a state where alcohol delivery is prohibited, you can choose the cheaper booze-free option and source your own bottles.

The cocktails run the gamut from 1930s favorites up to modern creations. The Firefly, for example, showcases tequila by bringing out its spicy aspects with Hudson & Lee's honey ginger spice syrup and Scrappy’s Firewater Tincture.

• Best match for: Anyone after curated cocktails but none of the bottles.

haker & Spoon differentiates itself by never providing any bottles. Instead, the company sends customers the extra goodies they need to make three different cocktails. Before the box arrives, the company lets its clients know which bottles they suggest and offer a heads-up if any bar tools are needed.

The cocktails themselves are often twists on older drinks, but they're made new by a dedication to international flavors. For example, the Japanese whiskey box contains everything needed to highlight this newly popular spirit. We like the instruction cards and accompanying how-to videos as these make advanced bartending techniques easier for a newbie to follow.

You won't be told to reverse dry shake an egg white, for example, without being told how. And you won't accidentally flatten your ginger beer because the guide was ambiguous. Of all the cocktail kits reviewed here, we think these boxes feature the best instructions.

• Best match for: Mixed-drink lovers and anyone who wants to help the bar industry.

You probably miss the heady pre-COVID days of bar-flying and cocktailing with the best of them. But someone misses it more and that's your friendly local bartender. Sourced Craft Cocktails has come up with an innovative solution that gets drinks to your door and helps out of work service staff.

The company pivoted from an event focus to collated cocktail delivery and it hires barkeeps to invent and deliver your box. Additionally, each box contains alcohol, tools, glassware, and a tote bag. Not a subscription service per se, you order as and when you want to.

The company's website is clean and easy to navigate so you'll have no problems choosing your cocktails. We also like that it's easy for anyone to buy a one-off gift for a friend or family member. Plus, because you get full-sized bottles, there are plenty of servings in each of your shipments.