Whilst stuck at home during the first lockdown, friends and family kept asking Ranj, known as 'the cocktail guy', for tips on how to make cocktails at home as the ones they were buying in supermarkets and online tasted sh*t.

Inspired by this exact Espresso he made at home, he called his two closest friends Xav and Sim to pitch them an idea; why not make and send high quality cocktails using his own recipes?

As we went into our first Christmas still operating out of Sims kitchen, we realised we were getting too many orders to handle ourselves. We'd sold out of stock twice and couldn't physically make cocktails fast enough.

We decided to hire a room from a bar that was shut due to the pandemic and quickly hired a team of friends to help us.

We quickly scaled into our own office, eventually producing over 200,000 cocktails with our own hands in the first 12 months.

After months of hard work we finally released Mixtons.

It was an evolution of our original model and helped us reach new heights. In 2022 we achieved some key milestones such as becoming Winter Wonderlands cocktail supplier, winning hundreds of trade listings and attending over 40 festivals across the UK.

But we soon realised it's limitations.

The brand had no defined 'purpose' other than making good quality cocktails. We did not feel this was a viable long term position and upon some deep soul searching, and a lot of customer interaction, we found our next step.