Mocktails: Mindful Drinking with these alcohol-free cocktail recipes
Until a few years ago, “real” ones were allowedalcoholic cocktails, not missing at any party, things are looking different now. Recently there has been a clear trend that has the beautiful nameMindful Drinkingcarries. This is aboutAlcoholTo consume consciously and less often, to know why and what exactly you are consuming. Do you really want a Gin & Tonic or do you order one?Drinkautomatically because the others around you do it too?
These days, conscious consumption doesn't just refer to...or, it has become a long-term success in all areas of lifeTrendmoulted. So you not only pay more attention to eating healthily, exercising regularly and also doing something for your own well-being (keyword:) – even if it’s about thatDrinkand enjoyingGoing with friends and family is moreannounced. So it's no wonder that more and more spirits manufacturers, sparkling wine etc. also in the non-alcoholic version - or even just specialize in that.
Non-Alcoholic Cocktail: What is a Mocktail?
In the 1990s and 2000s there was still talk of a “Virgin Sex on the Beach” or a “Virgin Piña Colada”, today we talk about itMocktails. The term is made up of the English words “mock” and “cocktail”. “To mock” means something like “to fake something” or “to simulate something”. In this case, a "real" cocktail, traditionally prepared with alcohol, is simulated without sacrificing delicious taste and aesthetics.Mocktailsare made from juices, soft drinks, infused water, syrups and non-alcoholic spirits, among other things. Fresh fruits and herbs usually also play an important role - after all, a mocktail should look like a classic oneCocktailtaste and look!
23 perfect mocktail recipes
The best thing about mocktails is that you can drink as many of them as you want without waking up with a nasty hangover the next day. The bestRecipesFor inspiration we have belowoverviewput together for you. Cheers!
Aperetivo ohne Alkohol: Mionetto Estate
Ingredients:
- 4cl Italian orange lemonade (e.g. fromSan Pellegrino)
- 6 cl alkoholfreier Sekt (from ZBMionetto alcohol-free 0.0%)
- 1-2 Physalis
- Fresh romarin
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
Halve the 1-2 physalis and place them in a wine tray along with the rosemary sprig and ice cubes. Pour the lemonade and sparkling wine together into the glass and stir carefully with a long spoon - and then enjoy cold!
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Paloma Undone
Ingredients:
- 50 ml alcohol-free Mezcal (zBUndone No.4)
- 10 ml fresh lime juice
- 5 ml agave syrup
- Pink Grapefruit Tonic (z.B. vonThomas Henry)
- One dice
- To garnish: grapefruit peel and a little sea salt
Preparation:
Put the ice cubes in a tall glass, then add the mezcal, lime juice and agave syrup. Finally, pour the tonic over it and stir with a long spoon. As a garnish, twist a piece of grapefruit peel over the glass and then add it. Finally, sprinkle with a little sea salt and the delicious mocktail is ready!
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Summer Aperitif without alcohol: Floreale Pomegranate
Ingredients:
- 4 clMartini Floreale non-alcoholic
- 12 cl Pomegranate Tonic (from Schweppes)
- Decoration: mint sprig and grapefruit wedge
Preparation:
Pour the Martini Floreale into a large wine glass filled with ice cubes. Top up with tonic and stir gently. Garnish with mint and citrus wedge.
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Pink Summer
Ingredients:
- 6 cl Pink London Classic non-alcoholic gin alternative (e.gfrom Polly)
- 60g frozen raspberries
- a handful of crushed ice
- 50 ml lemonade
- 1/2 freshly squeezed lemon
- 2 cl Zuckersirup
Preparation:
Put all the ingredients in a blender (the lemonade at the end!) and mix until a homogeneous “iced” mass is formed. Then serve in a glass of your choice and decorate as you wish with a raspberry and some mint.
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Rubin Grapefruit Sour
Ingredients:
- 3 cl Ruby aperitif with lemons, juniper and hibiscus flowers (from the small factoryFranz von Fein)
- 4 cl Pink Grapefruit Saft
- 1 cl lemon juice
- 12 cl sparkling water
- Decoration: grapefruit slice
Preparation:
In a glass filled with ice cubes, mix all the ingredients with a bar spoon. Garnish with a grapefruit slice.
Ingwer Mocktail: Cranberry Ingwer Mule
Ingredients:
- Agave syrup
- Ice cubes (or optional: ginger ice cubes)
- 100 ml ginger tea
- 100 ml Cranberrysaft
- Cranberrys
- mint
- Ginger powder
Preparation:
Take a tall glass and spread the agave syrup around the edge, then spread the ginger powder on top. Ginger ice cubes can be used for an extra ginger kick, otherwise fill the glass with ice cubes. Then add the chilled ginger tea and then fill the glass with cranberry juice. To garnish, add additional cranberries and one or two mint leaves. Stir, done!
Bourbon Espresso MartiNO
Ingredients:
- 5 cl double espresso
- 6 cl non-alcoholic malt blend (fromRebels 0.0 %)
- 2,5 cl Vanillesirup
- 1 spoonful of vegan milk foam (for example with chickpea water)
Preparation:
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add cooled espresso, Rebels 0.0% and vanilla syrup. Add a few drops of vegan milk foam for the perfect espresso martini feeling. Shake vigorously in a cocktail shaker then strain into martini glasses. Then enjoy the wonderful vanilla flavors and cheers!
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PRNon-alcoholic cocktail for Christmas: pear punch
Ingredients for a punch punch:
- 1 liter of pear juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 2 slices of ginger (thickness depending on taste)
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 250 ml sparkling water
- 1 pear
- Cinnamon bark, star anise and thyme to taste
preparation:
Place all ingredients, except the pear and garnish, in a punch bowl or pitcher. Wash and cut the pear and add it to the punch. Garnish the glasses with a cinnamon bark, star anise and fresh thyme, add ice cubes and pour the punch over them. Finally, add a pear to the middle of the glass and your Christmas punch is ready!
Taragon Valley
Ingredients:
- 35 ml Estragon Minz Cordial
- 15 ml Verjus (Koegler)
- 130 ml lemonade in the flavor “Black Orange” (z.B. von Red Bull)
- pinch of salt
- Mint leaf as a garnish
Ingredients for the Tarragon Mint Cordial:
- 30 g fresh tarragon
- 20 g fresh mint
- 3g malic acid
- 2g citric acid
- 350g water
- 350g sugar
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Put the water, sugar, tarragon and mint in a vacuum bag and cook in a saucepan over low heat for about an hour and a half. Then strain and stir in 3 g malic acid and 2 g citric acid while the liquid is still hot and pour into a bottle. cold spots.
Preparation:
Place all ingredients except the lemonade in a highball glass with ice cubes. Pour in about 130 ml of lemonade – done!
Watermelon mocktail
Ingredients:
- 300 g melon flesh, without seeds
- 1 1/2 oranges, juice
- 1 lime, juice
- 100 g raspberry pink pepper juice (e.g. from Rauch) or strawberry straight juice
Preparation:
Puree the watermelon, strain it through a sieve and mix with the remaining ingredients. Fill a glass with ice cubes and pour the cocktail mix over it. Enjoy!
Grapefruit Thymian Mocktail
Ingredients:
- 120g sugar
- 240ml water
- 30 g fresh thyme
- 180 ml sparkling water
- 2 teaspoons thyme syrup
- 80 ml fresh grapefruit juice
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
First, the thyme syrup is made by heating the sugar together with the water. The mixture is then poured hot over the fresh thyme and then you should wait 2-3 hours. Remove the thyme and chill the syrup. To make the mocktail, fill the glass with ice cubes, add two teaspoons of thyme syrup and then mix in the sparkling water and grapefruit juice. Pimp with a little thyme and a piece of grapefruit and the perfect cocktail is ready!
Quick Mocktail: Non-Alcoholic Amaretto Sour
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Ingredients:
- 5 cl alkoholfreier Amaretto (zBRebels 0.0% Amaretto Alternative with Almond & Sweet Apricot)
- 3 cl orange juice
- 2 cl lemon juice
Preparation:
Put all ingredients together in a shaker and add ice. Shake well to create a light layer of foam. Pour into a low glass and garnish with an orange. The non-alcoholic cocktail is ready so quickly!
Non-alcoholic classic: Virgin Strawberry Daiquiri
Ingredients:
- 100g strawberries
- 1 tbsp white cane sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Lemonade
- 4 ice cubes
Preparation:
If you don't want to have the little strawberry seeds stuck between your teeth, you canpeel beforehand. Otherwise, just wash it and put it in a blender with the other ingredients. Mix well until everything has a drinkable consistency and then pour into a large glass. Garnish with a strawberry and enjoy straight away cold!
Homemade Starbucks “Pink Drink”
Ingredients:
- Hibiscus tea
- Honey or agave syrup
- 4 ripe strawberries, sliced
- 30 ml orange juice
- 30 ml coconut milk
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
Bring the hibiscus tea with the honey to the boil and then let it steep with the strawberries for 10-20 minutes. Fill the glass with ice cubes, pour tea over it and add the orange juice and coconut milk. Garnish with strawberries and serve cold.
Grapefruit elderberry mocktail
Ingredients:
- 20 ml elderflower syrup
- 40 ml Grapefruitsaft
- 1 tsp lime juice
- 80 ml sparkling water
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
Place elderflower syrup, grapefruit juice and lime juice in a container (e.g. cocktail shaker) and stir (but do not shake!). Fill the glass with ice cubes and then add the mocktail mix and sparkling water. Complete!
Bitter Orange Spritz
Ingredients:
- Frucht-Infusion (z. Bsp. "Avoury Bitter Orange")
- fresh mint
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
If you are a fan of Aperol Spritz, you will also love this drink. Simply pimp a chilled fruit infusion with ice cubes and fresh herbs and the delicious aperitif is ready!
Rose and lemon spritz
Ingredients:
- 2 EL Rosenwasser
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 50 ml non-alcoholic vodka
- 2 tablespoons honey or agave syrup
- 1 EL Granatapfelsaft
- 175 ml sparkling water
- Rose petals
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
Pour rose water, lemon juice, non-alcoholic vodka, honey (alternatively agave syrup) and pomegranate juice into a cocktail shaker and fill with ice cubes. Shake well and then pour into a glass. Add sparkling water and garnish with rose petals.
Crodino Ginger Ale
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Ingredients:
- 1 bottleCrodino
- 100 ml Ginger Ale
- Orange zest
- Ice cream cone
Preparation:
Pour a bottle of Crodino over ice and then top the glass with ginger ale. Garnish with an orange zest before serving and the trendy drink is ready.
Gin Soda Mocktail
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Ingredients:
- 50 ml Gin ohne Alcohol (z.Bsp.Gordon's 0.0%)
- 100 ml mineral water with lots of sparkling water
- Lime wedge
- Lemon wedge
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
Squeeze the lime and lemon wedges with your fingers over a glass and fill the glass with the ice cubes. Add gin and mineral water and stir once. The classic drink is ready!
Cranberry Fizz Mocktail
Ingredients:
- 90 ml Ginger Ale
- 40 ml apple juice
- 40 ml Cranberrysaft
- ½ lemon
- 3 tbsp sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
First, mix the sugar and cinnamon together homogeneously on a plate. Then moisten the edge of the glass with a lemon and then dip it into the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Fill the glass with ice cubes, the two juices and a splash of lemon juice. Then all that's missing is ginger ale and the non-alcoholic cranberry fizz is ready!
Forgotten Island
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Ingredients:
- 80 ml Granatapfelsaft (z. Bsp.“Happy Day Pomegranate”)
- 20 ml Tonic Water
- 2 tsp white cane sugar
- Crushed Ice
- Lime slice
- fresh mint
Preparation:
Place three stalks of mint, cane sugar and pomegranate juice in a tumbler and press the ingredients together vigorously. Then fill the glass with crushed ice and add the tonic water. Stir the drink with a cocktail spoon and finally garnish with a little mint and a slice of lime. The mocktail with beach vibes is ready!
Clean Cucumber Collins
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cucumber
- 1 lemon
- 110 ml Sodawasher
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
Peel the cucumber and then puree it. Mix the cucumber puree and lemon juice together using a shaker and shake well. Fill the glass with ice cubes, then add the cucumber-lemon drink, and finally all that's missing is the water. If you want, you can decorate the drink with a slice of cucumber. And then all you have to do is drink and enjoy!
Non-alcoholic gin and tonic
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Ingredients:
- 50 ml Gin ohne Alcohol (from Bsp."Laori Juniper No 1")
- 100 ml Tonic Water
- Lemon or orange slice
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
The classic is also super easy to prepare in the alcohol-free version. Simply pour the gin into a tumbler glass, then slowly add the tonic water and then fill to the brim with ice cubes. Stir briefly with a cocktail spoon and garnish with a lemon or orange slice.
Alcohol-free Aperitif: Vibrante Spritz
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Ingredients:
- 75 ml"Martini Non-Alcoholic Vibrant"
- 25 ml Grapefruitsaft
- soda washer
- Grapefruit zest
- Ice cubes
Preparation:
Put ice cubes in a long drink glass and then fill it with "Martini Non-Alcoholic Vibrante" and grapefruit juice. Finally add a little soda water and a grapefruit zest for garnish. Complete!