How to Make a Mimosa Bar
Brunch at home can be so much fun and so versatile! Add a little pizzazz to your next hosting gig by offering a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Mimosa Bar. Offer several juices and fruits for guests to choose from so they can mix and match to create a mimosa straight out of their dreams. Easy to set up and even easier to enjoy, this Mimosa Bar is sure to become a mainstay at any at-home brunch you host!
Servings 8 mimosas
Ingredients
- Champagne
- Different fruit juices
- Fruits to use as garnish
- Wide-mouth quart-sized mason jars or other containers to hold the juice
- Washi tape for labeling jars and permanent markers
- Champagne bucket
- Champagne flutes
- Ramekins or bowls for fruit
Instructions
- Choose a flat, stable surface near where your brunch is being served to set out the bar.
- Set out your favorite champagne flutes or glasses for friends to pour their mimosas into. (This can be done a day or two in advance, depending on if you feel comfortable leaving the stuff out. Since I have small children at home, I wouldn't do this step until just before my guests arrive.)
- Purchase 3-4 favorite juices to be served. (I chose grapefruit, orange and peach, but the possibilities are endless! Choose what sounds good to you and what you think your guests will like.)
- Using the washi tape, label the mason jars so your guests will know what juice is in which jar.
- Just before your guests arrive, pour the juices into the mason jars.
- Put ice in an ice bucket, and place the champagne in it.
- Scoop seasonal fruit into the ramekins and display near the bar. Encourage friends to add their favorite fruit to their mimosas.
- Lastly, have extra champagne and juice in the fridge in case you and your guests gravitate to one juice and/or drink all the champagne before brunch is over.
Notes
Please note that the estimated cost on this project is if you don't have anything at home that can work for this bar and if you purchase everything in the recommended products section below. You certainly don't have to purchase anything new if you don't want to and if you have something in your home that works for this.
Also note that you'll have to purchase champagne and the juices, and I didn't factor those into the cost here because the cost of these ingredients ranges the board. For me, I like a higher-quality fruit juice and a well done California bubbly that's not too fancy, but tastes good on its own. (No more Andre here for me, y'all, but you do you.)
