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Canned cocktail review: Social Hour Whiskey Mule and Gin & Tonic

Posted by Jaime Fowler on

Social Hour canned cocktails reviewed by The Pursuit of Cocktails

Hi cocktail lovers! I'm back this week for the second half of the Social Hour canned cocktail reviews. This week I am trying their Whiskey Mule and their Gin and Tonic. If you missed my review of their Pacific Spritz last week, you can catch up here. I really liked last week's cocktail and I've been excited to try these other two so let's just dig in.

First up, the whiskey drink.


Social Hour Whiskey Mule: 

Social Hour Whiskey Mule ready to drink cocktail reviewed by The Pursuit of Cocktails

 

Overall score: 5 / 5

5 out of 5 cocktail shakers
Sweetness: 
One shaker = not sweet at all // Five shakers = your teeth may curl
One out of 5 cocktail shakers
Booziness: 10.5% ABV 
One shaker = does this have booze? Five shakers = OG Four Lokos 
4 out 5 cocktail shakers

This is the cocktail from Social Hour that I've been most excited about since I got them in the mail. I love a good whiskey drink and whiskey mules are quickly becoming one of my favorite styles of cocktails - and this one did not disappoint!

The Social Hour Whiskey Mule is perfection - and unlike other whiskey mules that I've tried. This mule has a really strong ginger beer flavor right up front that is then followed by a really rich but not overpowering whiskey. First you get a "burn" from the sharpness of the ginger. Then you get a slightly less "burn" from the booziness of the whiskey. And somehow the whole thing comes off as really smooth and really flavorful which I in my book is how all the best cocktail are.

If you already know that you don't like a powerful ginger beer flavor then you might want to skip this one. But for anyone else, I say give it a go. I really fell for this ginger forward whiskey mule and I can't wait to have another. 10/10 would recommend to any whiskey or mule lover - even though I would kind of like to hoard all of these and keep them for myself. LOL

 


Social Hour Gin & Tonic:  

Social Hour Gin and Tonic ready to drink cocktail reviewed by The Pursuit of Cocktails

Overall score: 4/ 5

4 out 5 cocktail shakers
Sweetness:  
One shaker = not sweet at all // Five shakers = your teeth may curl
One out of 5 cocktail shakers
Booziness:  11.5% ABV 
One shaker = does this have booze? Five shakers = OG Four Lokos 
4 out 5 cocktail shakers


Don't @ me but gin and tonic has never been my jam. I dislike tonic and I'm only recently coming around to gin drinks. I think I had too much Tanqueray in college and all I can think about is the strong pine flavor. So I was a little nervous to try this one from Social Hour - but I've really liked the other two cocktails from them so I figured if there was ever a G&T I'd like, it would probably be this one.

I was right! This was pretty good and I'm betting if you like G&Ts then you'd be over the moon for this one. For me the gin was just right and didn't have a super strong flavor to it. It seemed to have a little bit of a citrus flavor to it but I'm thinking that was from the gin itself. Either way, I liked it!

If you like a drier cocktail that is still full flavor then I think this might be your winner. I'm actually kind of stunned that I liked this one because I do prefer a sweeter cocktail but in this case the dryness worked, the gin didn't bother me and the tonic didn't put me off. I don't know how they did it but the cocktail magicians at Social Hour are truly masters of their craft!


Would I buy these again?

Heck yes! I am officially a Social Hour fan girl. I loved all of their cocktails! This is what the ready-to-drink cocktail movement is all about. These are solidly high-end cocktail bar worthy drinks that happen to be in a can. With cocktails like this available at your house you really don't have to go out to get a good drink anymore. 

Case in point, during the time when I first sampled these on Wednesday and now (Friday morning) I went out with a girl friend for dinner and drinks. We got drinks at two different places, each one around $14, and neither of them could hold a candle to these from Social Hour - even though we went to the two best cocktail places in my town. It really does make a girl want to just skip all that and stay home with a canned cocktail.

If you'd like to order the Social Hour cocktails you can do that directly from their website here: https://www.socialhourcocktails.com/team-4

 Until next week, cheers my dears! 


 

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