Skip the overly sweet mocktails and impress your guests with classic alcohol-free cocktails. Bartenders are rediscovering old recipes and traditional preservation methods to create complex and flavorful zero-proof drinks.
Skip the overly sweet 'mocktails' of recent years and try these classic ingredients to impress your guests. Temperance drinks, for example, date back to the 1800s, when the temperance movement encouraged many North Americans to moderate or give up alcohol for religious, moral or health reasons. Some of these alcohol-free beverages became household staples, proprietary formulas that evolved into the colas, root beers and ginger ales still found on store shelves today.
Other recipes appeared in housekeeping manuals and early cocktail books, offering plenty of inspiration for creating festive, non-alcoholic drinks that are both novel. Fast-forward to the present, and it might seem like the 'sober curious' movement popped up overnight. But it began taking shape about a decade ago when non-alcoholic 'spirits' entered the market, inspiring bartenders to reinvent overly sweet 'mocktails' into complex, 'zero-proof cocktails' or 'temperance drinks' — terms they felt better reflected their thoughtful, elevated approach to alcohol-free mixology. Many bartenders are turning to old recipes and traditional preservation methods to make their ingredients, including tinctures, infusions and 'shrubs' (not a small bush but a way to preserve fruit). Pre-made versions of things like shrubs and syrups have become more widely available in recent years. There's also an impressive range of easily sourced non-alcoholic facsimiles of gin, tequila, rum, whisky, aperitifs, amaro, vermouth and even cocktail bitters. With some tweaking of proportions, they make it possible to make non-boozy versions of almost any classic cocktail. 'There's so many non-alcoholic products that you can use as dupes,' said Lindsay Jones, bar manager at the Ostrich Club in Halifax. With all these options, she said, when it comes to serving guests, 'There's really no excuse for not having non-alcoholic cocktails anymore.
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