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Microbar box

After finishing my clean eating challenge, the lovely Kate at microbarbox sent me one of their variety boxes to try out – perfect timing!

The Concept:

The boxes include around 4 different drinks and a couple of snacks – similar to a minibar, but obviously smaller – hence the name! You can get a gift box or sign up for a regular subscription box

It’s delivered in a robust box within a box and all the bottles are also bubble wrapped – which was good as the couriers bashed mine around a little!

Here’s the selection you can find in the variety box:

Contents:

6 o’clock gin & tonic
Prosecco
Wild strawberry vodka
Barcardi
Funkin mojito mix
Lime & chilli cashews
A selection of chocolate squares 
Plus a card detailing the ingredients and what you should mix together for the best cocktails! 

We started with the mojito – Funkin mix with the Barcardi – the girls were amazed at the mint flavour in the mojito mix, I managed to rustle up some lime and mint as garnish, but you really don’t need that for the flavour.

Next up was a quality G&T – 6 o’clock gin with its own special tonic, a truly lush combination, although as a semi-professional gin lush I would recommend only using 2/3 of the tonic unless you like your G&Ts weak!

Finally we tried the microbarbox take on the Bellini or Kir Royale, with the Wild Strawberry vodka and prosecco.
Now they also say you can have these separately – strawberry vodka on crushed ice and prosecco just straight – but mixing them together definitely makes this a proper cocktail and not just a drink.
We also had the cashews – tasty with a hint of spice but not too spicey – made for having with cocktails.

Laura and I shared the chocolates afterwards – despite the ‘flavours’ I didn’t find them strong, the taste of the dark chocolate overpowered the other flavours, except for the pink pepper, I could definitely taste that!

Verdict:

I tried out the microbarbox with three friends after dinner and we had fun trying all the different cocktails. One box made 4 drinks for us, so if you want to have the same drink each or just have more of everything then you might want to try the sharing box.

I can see this being a great addition to a girls night out – pre drinks before a night out on the town dancing!

I also want to check out their gin & tonic gift box with a selection of gins and different tonics (hint hint!) and the chocaholic box with Coole Swan chocolate liqueur and Bramley & Gage cherry brandy! There is also a fruity gin box using Ely fruit flavoured gin – an excellent introduction to the good stuff* These boxes start at £28 each, the monthly subscription boxes from £21.

*that’s gin by the way 🙂

Discount code!

As an extra special introduction to try out a microbarbox of your own I have a discount code that gives you £12 off your first subscription box!

Just enter WKD12OFF1STBOX when you check out.

Microbarbox website is here: https://www.microbarbox.com/

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