Cocktail/Punch help please...

Pina colada? x

How about a nice mild Sangria or a vodka fruit punch?

Sorry, forgot to say, because it comes out of tap thing, it cant have pieces of fruit or anything in it..

Also, it will be left out all afternoon, so no good on the pina coladas I'm afraid!

I'd be tempted to go for something simple like pims and lemonade, put ice in the barrel to keep it cool. I'm not very creative with my drinks so can't really think of anything more exotic.

I wouldn't go for anything too alcoholic, so whatever recipe you go for I'd add more juice than usual.

S€x on the beach is actually quite popular, vodka, peach schnapps, orange and cranberry

Woo woo - vodka, peach schnapps, cranberry

Cosmopolitan - vodka, triple sec, cranberry

Can do a sangria style recipe with fruit juice instead of chunks of fruit, so maybe some wine, gin, mixed fruit juice and possibly lemonade/soda water.

Anything with pineapple will tend to have a lot of sediment so could clog up the barrel, probably not to the point of blocking it but enough to make the last few drinks really cloudy and manky. Lemonade can fizz up like crazy when you add it to juice so you'd need to add it very slowly.

If you really wanted to have pina colada you could use coconut milk and regular rum rather than cream and malibu, this would keep ok throughout the afternoon but i think it really needs a lot of ice and personally I think it's too rich to have more than one glass.

I'd keep the ice separate in a cooler to add to cups then top up with cocktail rather than adding to the barrel if you're leaving it out all afternoon. To keep it cool long enough you'd have to almost completely fill the barrel with ice and would hardly get any drink in with it.

If you aren't a vodka fan I can maybe think of more cocktails but they are the first ones that spring to mind.

why is that? ive seen a barrel of pina colada before!

My friend served hot spiced cider at their October wedding reception and stumbled across bottle green cordials for a non-alcoholic hot berry drink. Was gorgeous! Anyway, they make a range of cordials that are quite 'grown up' if you know what I mean? They only needed a few bottles as its a concentrate, and they served jug fulls! A cheap but tasty solution. They can be drunk hot or cold, with alcohol added if you want or sparkling water, choice is yours. Their website has a few cocktail ideas too...

http://www.bottlegreendrinks.com/ideas/cocktails/

Tracey86 i agree pims would be perfect. Touch of british in france!

Just out of interest, how do you make SOTB? That's what I've done in every bar I've worked in.