We all have those times in our social lives when a break from cocktails are in order. No reason to despair, these gorgeous concoctions provide the lip-smacking solutions for those going alcohol free. Your liver will savor the vacation.
On The Wagon Off the Road
(photo at the top of this post)
Strawberry Rhubarb syrup:
4 stalks of rhubarb
1 quart strawberries
1 quart sugar
1 quart water
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Cook for 45 minutes and strain.
The Cocktail:
1.5 oz Kin High Rhode
.75 oz strawberry rhubarb syrup
.5 oz lime juice
Top with Fever-Tree Ginger Beer
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Add all ingredients to a shaker except ginger beer. Add ice and shake. Strain into a mule mug with ice. Top with Fever-Tree Ginger Beer. Garnish with toasted rosemary sprig.
— non-alcoholic cocktail by Kendall Atkerson, The Hoxton, Williamsburg
Seldom in the DayLight
3 oz Fever-Tree Club Soda
1 oz lime juice
1.5 oz sugarcane juice
3 lime wedges
5-6 mint leaves
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Lightly muddle lime wedges in the bottom of the glass, smack mint, add lime juice, sugarcane juice, and top with Fever-Tree Club Soda. Garnish with sugarcane stick and mint sprig.
—non-alcoholic cocktail by Shawn Chen, Beverage Director, RedFarm and Decoy
Carrot Aperol Spritz
3 oz fresh carrot juice
1 oz ginger syrup (ginger root that’s blended with simple syrup)
.75 oz fresh lemon juice
1 drop vanilla extract
1.5 oz Fever-Tree Ginger Beer
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Add all ingredients except ginger beer into shaker and shake hard for 5 seconds with 5 ice cubes.
Pour ginger beer into shaker and strain Into chilled ice filled glass.
Garnish with carrot curls / sprig parsley.
— non-alcoholic cocktail by Gaby Mlynarczyk, Beverage Director, The Fat Radish
Focus
3 oz lemon verbena tea
1 oz lime juice
1.25 oz ginger syrup
Method: Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a Collins glass filled with ice. Garnish with a ginger candy.
— non-alcoholic cocktail by Amy Racine, The Loyal
