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Alcohol-free cocktails
Alcohol-free drinks here are built with the same intent as any other cocktail — real balance between sweet, sour, bitter and aromatic — just without ethanol doing any of the work. Shrubs, bitters, fresh juice and alcohol-free spirits stand in for what a base spirit would normally contribute, so these aren't afterthoughts or diluted versions of 'real' drinks.
Where to start with alcohol-free
the one it is known for
Alcohol-Free SpritzThe highball the category is built around, and the drink most others here are compared against.
the easiest to get right
Alcohol-Free Mule2 ingredients, built, and about 3 minutes — very little to go wrong.
where it goes next
Virgin Piña ColadaA blended rather than a highball — tropical and creamy, and a different side of the same bottle.
Alcohol-Free Bellini
Peach purée topped with alcohol-free sparkling wine — two ingredients, and the same drink the original always was.
Virgin Sea Breeze
Cranberry and grapefruit over ice — the Sea Breeze's dry, tart half, which was always the interesting part.
Shirley Temple
Ginger ale and grenadine with a maraschino cherry — a bright, fizzy classic mocktail.
Garden Highball
Alcohol-free botanical spirit, tonic, cucumber and mint — a crisp, herbal highball for the garden.
Ginger Lime Fizz
Ginger beer, lime and soda over ice with mint — a spicy, fizzy CocktailHQ original.
Espresso Tonic
Chilled tonic water over ice with a fresh double espresso poured on top — bittersweet, fizzy and cold.
Kombucha Mule
Ginger kombucha and lime over ice — a tangy, faintly funky alcohol-free take on the Moscow Mule format.
Sparkling Cranberry Mocktail
Tart cranberry juice lengthened with soda and lime — a bright, festive-looking three-ingredient mocktail.
Cucumber Mint Cooler
Muddled cucumber and mint lengthened with lime and soda — a cool, green, alcohol-free highball.
Virgin Daiquiri
Lime and sugar blended with crushed ice to a frozen slush, finished with a splash of soda — the Daiquiri's citrus snap, without the rum.
Roy Rogers
Cola and grenadine with a maraschino cherry — the cola-based sibling to a Shirley Temple.
Virgin Sunrise
Orange juice and grenadine, layered so the colour bleeds from red to gold — the Tequila Sunrise without the tequila.
Alcohol-Free Hot Toddy
Honey, lemon and hot water with whole spice — the toddy's comforting half, without the whisky.
Lime Rickey
Lime, a little sugar and soda water — three ingredients, and the driest long drink on the site.
Raspberry Shrub Soda
Raspberry shrub lengthened with soda — sweet, sharp and genuinely complex, with vinegar doing the work alcohol usually does.
Virgin Painkiller
Pineapple, orange and coconut cream under a heavy grating of nutmeg — the Painkiller loses less than you'd think.