The Best Canned Cocktails in the West

The Sparkling Vodka Fizz from Two Chicks Cocktails tastes as great as it smells. Pear and elderflower engage your tastebuds and make the cocktail forward tasting in a way that doesn’t linger afterwards, a bonus that keeps the drink delicate. Light, floral, and sweet, the Sparkling Vodka Fizz is a unique delight that will make refusing seconds almost impossible.

The Honeydew Collins, created by Los Angeles bartender Joey Bernardo for Livewire, is a groundbreaking cocktail reminiscent of an elevated piña colada. Made with gin, coconut, honeydew, lime leaf, and elderflower, Honeydew Collins uses fresh ingredients that blend to taste like a warm summer day on the beach. The honeydew and elderflower stand out among the flavors and balance out the gin.

A take on the original Corpse Reviver from the 1800s, Zaddy’s purified the recipe by replacing brandy with gin to make the drink lighter and adding orange, lemon peel, fennel, nutmeg, and coriander for strong botanicals. The Corpse Reviver contains only two grams of cane sugar and 100 calories, making it the guilt-free canned cocktail to enjoy all summer long.

Want to feel like a spa day? DRNXMYTH combines cucumber, lime, and mint with London dry gin to channel the relaxation of a spa in its Eastside cocktail. The blend remains in a chamber below the gin, and when you twist the bottle clockwise, it fuses with the gin so that the drink remains fresh. Inspired by mixologist and bartender Saeed House, Eastside is a refreshing drink for poolside afternoons.

503 Distilling tastes as it says, and with the I’m Your Huckleberry Lemonade, expect only vodka, huckleberry, and lemonade. Straightforward and simple, the Huckleberry Lemonade levels a tart punch with subtle sweetness from the lemon. The 503 Distilling cocktail is an adult replacement for fresh-squeezed neighborhood lemonade.

Straightaway Cocktails has mastered spritzes, but none more than their Last Word Spritz. Made with Pinot Gris, housemade herbal liqueur, cherry, lime, and mint, it is airy yet has a strong first taste. Best enjoyed over ice—and sipped slowly—this canned cocktail packs a punch of flavor.

Golden Road’s take on a mimosa includes champagne and mango beer, a summery replacement for the usual orange juice. The brewery combines their Mango Cart beer, a wheat ale infused with fresh mango, and bright champagne for a light, bubbly easy-to-drink cocktail.

Whiskey and ginger are a complementary flavor pair to last the ages. Cocktail Squad has canned the classic Whiskey Ginger with only organic ingredients. The ginger’s spice tones down the whiskey, and with zero grams of sugar and only 90 calories, the cocktail won’t give you the hangover and fullness that you would get from a home-mixed Whiskey Ginger.

While one of the most famous cocktails of all time, the margarita is hard to condense into a can without ruining the balanced flavor profile. However, Salt Point managed to create a well-balanced marg with its house-made tequila and triple-sec and just the right amount of bubbles to enhance the flavor rather than drown it out.