Think going booze-free means orange squash, lemonades and lime & soda? Think again. Whether you're giving it a go for January, wanna take it a bit easier for a while or are in it for the long haul, these are the non-alc cocktails we like to make at home all year round.
We LOVE a Gimlet. Sweet. Crisp. Sharp. And dangerously easy to drink. Wanna hold a hangover at arms length? Swap out the gin for ZEO Botanical Dry and Bingo! You've got a killer cocktail that won't bring you existential dread the next morning. Hallelujah!
You will need:
70ml ZEO Botanical Dry
30ml Lime Juice
15ml Sugar Syrup
Method: Stir over ice and strain into a glass. Garnish with a lime wedge. Now, that was easy, wasn't it?
Channel some of that third lockdown bitterness into a bad-ass non-alc Negroni using a bottle of Wilfred's botanical 0% ABV aperitif. A few months stuck at home with these should make it a bit easier...
You will need:
100ml Wilfred’s Aperitif
15ml Fresh Grapefruit
3 dashes of Angostura Bitters
Method: Place a large chunk of ice into an old fashioned glass. Add ingredients and gently stir allowing the ice to melt a bit. Garnish with an orange peel twirl. Heaven.
Planning a tapas night with your household? This is the ideal savoury sour to pair with your fave small Spanish plates. Olé!
You will need:
50ml Everleaf MARINE
20ml Fresh Bergamot or Lime Juice
15ml Coconut Water
1 tsp of Coconut Sugar (we get ours from Lidl but you could use 15ml of classic 1:1 sugar syrup if you cba to go out and buy some)
15ml Egg White or Aqua Faba
Method: Add all the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake hard with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with dried dulse (or a wheel of lime, whatever you prefer/have to hand)
Young, sweet, and only 17? Well, this is the cocktail for you, baby girl, cos it's 100% booze-free and brings the life & soul of a Latin-American party when made with Caleño AKA our favourite sassy non-alc...
You will need:
50ml Light & Zesty Caleño
1 Whole Fresh Passionfruit
15ml Vanilla Syrup
Method: Just build in a highball over ice and top with soda. Hot damn.
Don't worry about that Winter temperature drop. Things are heatin' up around here, and we've got a few bottles of Fluère to thank for that...
You will need:
25ml Fluère Smoked Agave
15ml Fluère Original
15ml Fresh Lime Juice
85ml Fresh Yellow Bell Pepper Juice
5ml Agave Syrup and a pinch of salt
Method: First slice the chilli and muddle in the shaker. You want it spicy? Use smaller chillis, baby. Then add all other ingredients into your shaker, fill it to the top with ice and shake. Garnish the glass with a long slice of cucumber and a chlili pepper. Strain the cocktail over ice into a rocks glass and enjoy! HOT HOT HOT.
Wanna add more epic booze-free bottles to your home bar? We've got 20 that rock our world whether we're on or off the wagon.