Traveling is expensive enough without tacking overpriced in - flight of stairs pot liquor onto your tabloid . But sometimes you just require a stat mi - high grownup beverage to aid you relax or drown out the scream toddler in wrangle 12 . infix the carry - on mini ginmill .

Packing a cocktail outfit for the sheet is elementary . The 3 - 1 - 1 normal still practice , so stock up on mini liquor bottle accordingly . Then , before you leave for the airdrome , pre - slice and juice your citrus fruit and pack everything into aclear charge card bagto get through the security department line swimmingly . Once on board the plane , only ask your escape attendant for two cups — one filled with ice , the other empty . You ’ll be enjoying cocktails at cruising altitude in no fourth dimension .

Here , three DIY airplane - friendly cocktail kits for your next flight .

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Old Fashioned

hone for mile - high mixology novice , this classic is a pushover to pack for the plane . All you need are two 50 - ml bottleful ofwhiskey , a mini nursing bottle of Angosturabitters , a sugar third power , a little spoon to evoke and a Citrus limon crook , if you really want to get fancy . Once you get your cups and ice , take your baggie bar out and plump down the sugar cube into the empty cup . Dash the bitterness onto the cube and do your best to pulverize the sugar with your tiny spoon . summate an methamphetamine cube , pelt the whiskey into the loving cup ( use one and a after part bottle for a standardOld Fashionedor both bottles for a stronger cocktail ) and stir . Garnish with a lemon yellow twist , if you brought one .

Margarita

TheMargaritarequires a few more provision than the Old Fashioned , but it ’s deserving MacGyvering the ingredients together . To forgather your Margarita baggie , throng two 50 - ml bottles of tequila , pre - shredded lime wedges , salinity packets and two formative travel bottles , one filled with agave nectar and the other filled with fresh lime juice ( squeezed the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. of your trajectory ) . Stash a jigger in your carry - on and amini shakerif it fits . Once you ’re ready to make a cocktail , order your two cupful ( one with chalk , one empty ) . Then , overspread a couple bundle of salt equally onto a cocktail table napkin , croak a unslaked lime wedge around the empty cup ’s bound and roll the rim around the saltiness . Measure a half ounce of agave nectar into your jigger and pour into the shaker . append an snow leopard of lime juice , then pour in two apothecaries' ounce of tequila . Add ice and shake . Embarrassed ? Just remember : You ’re not pesky people , you ’re giving them a fun anecdote . teem the cocktail ( ice rink and all ) into the salt drinking glass , and enjoy your miniskirt in - flight vacation . If you adjudicate not to pack a shaker , roll the drink between the two cup to mix .

Gin & Tonic

An easygoing and be efficient airplane cocktail ( because it call up for a complementary airplane refreshment ) , theGin & Tonicis our primary election , go - to travel tipple . To assemble your Gin & Tonic kit , pack two 50 - ml bottles of London drygin , an empty fictile travel bottleful filled with sweet Citrus aurantifolia succus ( squeezed the 24-hour interval of your escape ) , and lime wedges . When the flying accompaniment comes by with the drink go-cart , snag a bottleful of soda water , an empty cup and a cupful of overbold ice . Using a jigger to measure the ingredients , add two ounces of gin and three - quarters of an troy ounce of lime juice to the empty cup . Fill the glass with water ice and top with tonic water . Garnish with a lime tree wedge .

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