Fruity Alcohol-Free Cocktails for a Sober Pride Month

Are you celebrating Pride month without alcohol this year? Then why not try out some of these fruity alcohol-free Pride month drinks? Here are five of our favourite pride-themed alcohol-free cocktails. 

1. Rainbow Sangria

What is fruitier than a rainbow Sangria? Gay Pride! This refreshing and sweet alcohol-free Sangria is the perfect alcohol-free cocktail to celebrate Pride month with. Represent the whole Pride flag in one non-alcoholic drink.

Ingredients:

To make a carafe of alcohol-free rainbow Sangria:

• Rainbow-coloured fruit of your choice. Any of the below fruits work, so choose at least one of every colour and design the fruity flavour that you want.

• StrawberriesWatermelonMangoOrangePineappleKiwiBlueberry

• Purple grapes

• 1 bottle of alcohol-free white wine (dry)

• 80 ml alcohol-free Triple Sec (for example Lyre’s Orange Sec)

• 1 lime juiced

• 1 lemon juiced

• 50 ml simple syrup

Method:

1. Mix together the lime and lemon juice, alcohol-free white wine, simple syrup, Orange Sec and simple syrup into a carafe. Cool this for at least 3-4 hours in the fridge.

2. Wash and cut your rainbow fruit, keeping the colours separate.

3. Either split the fruit into separate glasses or fill an empty carafe with them. Layer this in the order of the Pride flag, starting with your purple-coloured fruit (ie purple grapes), going through blue, green, yellow, orange and then red.

4. Pour the chilled mixture over the fruit mixture. Serve with a spoon and a straw!

2. Manhattan

Pride month started as a riot against police brutality targeted towards the LGBTQ+ community in a bar called Stonewall Inn, in Manhattan. So, to honour the origins of the Pride movement, here is the recipe for a delicious alcohol-free Manhattan.

Ingredients:

• 2 shots of Lyre’s American Malt

• 1 shot of non-alcoholic sweet vermouth

• 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, or other aromatic bitters

Method:

1. Add all the ingredients into a chilled mixing glass with ice.

2. Stir until well chilled.

3. Strain the ice out and serve in a coupe glass.

4. Garnish with a cherry.

3. Pineapple Empress Gin Cocktail

Alcohol-free Empress Gin is the best way to make an aesthetically pleasing non-alcoholic cocktail. So what better time to make an over-the-top, colour-changing cocktail than during your sober Pride month?

Ingredients:

To make alcohol-free Empress gin:

• One bottle of alcohol-free gin

• 10-15 butterfly pea tea flowers

• A cheesecloth or empty tea bag

For the cocktail:

• 2 shots of alcohol-free Empress gin

• 1 shot of pineapple juice

• 2 tsp honey

• 2 tsp lemon juice

Method:

To make the alcohol-free empress gin:

1. Place the butterfly pea tea flowers into your cheesecloth or tea bag.

2. Put into the alcohol-free gin and leave for at least 15 minutes. The longer you leave it the darker the colour of the gin will be.

To make the cocktail:

• Add the pineapple juice, lemon juice, honey and ice into a cocktail shaker.

• Shake well and then strain into a Collins glass filled with crushed ice.

• Layer the homemade alcohol-free empress gin on top.

• Garnish with a pineapple slice.

• The empress gin will change from a blue, purple colour to red when the acidic lemon and pineapple are mixed with it.

4. Watermelon Mojito

Pride takes place in summer, and Pride parties can get really warm! So a refreshing alcohol-free watermelon Mojito is the perfect long drink to enjoy when you are going sober at a Pride party.

Ingredients: 

• 4-5 mint leaves

• 1.5 tbsp lime juice

• 1.5 tbsp simple syrup

• 2 shots of alcohol-free rum

• 3 shots of blended and pureed watermelon

• Tonic water

Method:

1. Add the lime juice, mint and simple syrup to the bottom of a Collins glass and muddle it together.

2. Half-fill the glass with ice and add your rum.

3. Top with tonic water to taste.

4. Garnish with mint or watermelon.

5. Rosé Lavender Lemonade

Lavender has been associated with lesbians for years. Gifting lavenders to each other used to be a covert way of expressing sapphic interest. So no Pride cocktail list would be complete without a tasty alcohol-free lavender cocktail.

Ingredients: 

For the cocktail:

• Juice of half a lemon

• 2 shots of lemon and lavender syrup

• Alcohol-free sparkling Rosé

For the lemon and lavender syrup:

• 2 tbsp dried lavender

• 2 tbsp zested lemon

• 200 g sugar

• 450 ml water

Method:

To make the syrup:

1. Add all the syrup ingredients into a pan and boil for five minutes.

2. Once it has formed a syrup, strain it and let it cool.

To make the cocktail:

1. Mix the lemon juice and syrup with ice in a mixer. Shake until chilled.

2. Strain this into a coupe and then top it with alcohol-free sparkling rosé.

3. Garnish with a lavender stem.

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