Alcohol-Free Cocktails for a Sober New Years Eve
New Year's Eve can be a challenging time to stay sober. There are booze-filled parties everywhere. But just because you don’t drink alcohol doesn’t mean you can’t party hard. And the best part? You will still remember it the next day, nor will you pay the price of a hangover. What more could you want?
One way to enjoy a wonderful New Year's Eve party without alcohol is to go all out on your alcohol-free cocktails. So here are five alcohol-free cocktails to make your drinking friends jealous on New Year's Eve!
French 77.5
The French 77 provides a spin on the classic French 75, a wartime drink made from gin, lemon juice, syrup and champagne. It does this by adding St Germain, an elderflower-based liqueur. The French 77.5 provides a further spin on the classic French 77 by making it fully alcohol-free!
Ingredients
25 ml New London’s Light First Light (or other alcohol-free gin)
15 ml Elderflower cordial or syrup
15 ml lemon juice
Noughty alcohol-free sparkling wine or Odd Bird Spumante
Method
Combine the elderflower cordial, alcohol-free gin and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker.
Fill with ice and shake for 30 seconds.
Strain into a chilled coupe glass and top with alcohol-free sparkling wine.
Garnish with a lemon twist and enjoy.
Red Snapper Alcohol-Free
The Red Snapper cocktail is similar to a Bloody Mary but uses gin instead of Vodka. In this alcohol-free Red Snapper recipe, the alcohol-free gin provides a delicious balance with the lemon and tomato juices to provide you with a savoury drink to help keep you going through a New Year's Eve party.
Ingredients
90 ml tomato juice
30 ml Brunswick Aces or Mahala Botanical alcohol-free gin
10 ml lemon juice
Pinch freshly ground black pepper
Pinch of salt
Worcestershire sauce
Tabasco
Lime wedge
Method
Pour the salt and pepper onto a small plate. Use the lime wedge around the edge of the glass and rim with the salt and pepper mixture.
Add tomato juice, alcohol-free gin, lemon juice, tabasco and Worcestershire sauce (to taste) into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until chilled.
Strain into your glass and garnish with a celery stick.
Cranberry Mimosa
Cranberry is a quintessential festive season flavour. So this Cranberry Mimosa is the perfect alcohol-free cocktail to see out the old year and bring in the new year. It is also easy to make.
Ingredients
90 ml Cranberry juice
Alcohol-free champagne
Sprig Rosemary
Optional: 1 shot of Lyre’s Triple Sec
Method
Add the cranberry juice to a chilled champagne flute.
Optionally add a shot of alcohol-free Triple Sec.
Top with alcohol-free champagne.
Garnish with a sprig of Rosemary and some cranberries on a stick
Espresso Martini
When you are staying sober at a party, it can be hard to stay awake. That’s exactly why you need the little buzz of caffeine that an alcohol-free Espresso Martini gives you.
Ingredients
50 ml alcohol-free vodka
25 ml Espresso coffee
25 ml alcohol-free coffee liqueur (Lyre’s Coffee Originale)
1 tbs simple syrup (1:1 sugar and water)
Method
Chill a Martini glass in the fridge.
Put all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
Shake until cold.
Strain into the chilled glass and garnish with coffee beans or a cherry.
New Year's Eve Ginger Punch
If you are hosting a New Year's party at home, a good hosting trick is to make a big bowl of punch. With this delicious alcohol-free winter ginger punch, even the non-sober among you will be coming back for more.
Ingredients (serves 10)
1-litre ginger beer
250 ml pear juice
250 ml apple juice
400 ml alcohol-free vodka
1 tsp vanilla extract
100 ml GIMBER
Juice of two limes
Half an apple thinly sliced
Half a pear thinly sliced
A thumb-sized piece of ginger, thinly sliced and peeled.
Method
Combine the ginger beer, juices, alcohol-free vodka, vanilla extract and GIMBER in a big jug.
Add your sliced fruits to the jug.
Fill with ice just as you are about to serve. Then enjoy the wintery delight.
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