Celebrate and Toast!

Raise a glass to toast with your guests and enjoy mocktails with all the taste of regular alcohol but with lower calories. If you enjoy alcoholic beverages, this is just the blog for you. Low sugar, without giving up on life’s little celebration pleasures.

One of the new growing trends in adult beverages is Zero-ABV and Low-ABV products. Alcohol by volume (ABV) has a lower alcohol content than most alcoholic beverages. (ABV) beverages have an alcohol content of between 0.05 and 1.2% reduced alcohol content. It’s less influential than full alcohol and is an alternative to sugary non-alcoholic beverages. Low-ABV products are available in vermouths, rum, bitters, and zero-ABV beers and wines. As we have become increasingly more aware of the negative effects of alcohol, we’re making different adult beverages and keeping carbs down.

Consider stocking your cabinet with lower carb, non-alcoholic beverages from:

Seedlip
Spiritless
Ritual Zero Proof
Optimist

To keep your adult beverages festive and flavorful, I’ve compiled a list of low-sugar beverages recipes to try. Don’t forget the previous Mocktail beverages blog.

No-sugar Mocktail Beverage Recipes

Mojito Mocktail

Ingredients

• Soda water can be substituted for another type of sparkling water – unflavored or with lemon or lime flavor
• Soda water can also be swapped for a lemon/lime soda for a sweeter version
• Lime needs to be fresh – lime juice in a bottle just won’t do. But, you can switch it for lemon with some change to the flavor.
• Crushed ice can be substituted for whole ice cubes, or omitted
• Fresh mint – only use the leaves, as the stem can make it bitter

Option:  1 ½ oz of your favorite non-alcoholic rum

Instructions

1. Add lime wedges and mint leaves to a highball glass – squeeze the lime wedges a bit while adding them to get a bit of the juice out immediately
2. Using a muddler (or the handle of a wooden spoon), smash together the lime and mint until you’ve gotten most of the juice out of the limes. Option: Add 1 ½ oz of your favorite non-alcoholic rum
3. Fill up with crushed ice
4. Stir

Virgin Cucumber Gimlet

Ingredients

• 1.5 oz club soda
• 4-5 slices of muddled cucumber
• 1 oz fresh lime juice
• 1 oz sugar-free syrup

Option: Add 2 oz. of non-alcoholic gin or vodka.

Instructions

Combine all ingredients and shake with ice. Serve in a rocks glass over crushed ice. Garnish with a rolled cucumber slice.

Vantage Point

Ingredients

• 2 oz ‘New London Light’
• 2 oz coffee (cold brew, decaffeinated or fresh)
• .5 oz sugar-free syrup
• Orange peel to garnish

Instructions

Place all the ingredients in a Boston shaker with plenty of ice. Shake for 15 seconds and strain into a tumbler over a large ice cube. Garnish with a twist of orange peel

Purple Plush

Ingredients

• Sugar-free Lychees
• Hibiscus Tea Leaves
• Club Soda

Instructions

1. Puree a can of sugar-free lychees. Strain, and set aside.
2. Brew hibiscus tea (1/4 cup dried hibiscus leaves in 1 cup hot water) for 5 minutes.
3. Add 1/4 cup tea to sugar-free lychee puree.
4. In a martini shaker filled with ice,
   •  Combine 3 ounces lychee–hibiscus tea mixture and 1-ounce water.
   • Shake for 10 seconds
   • Strain into a champagne flute.
   • Top off with club soda.

Hibiscus Sangria or Non-alcoholic Sangria

Ingredients

• 6 hibiscus tea bags or 750 ml of non-alcoholic red wine
• 3 cups almost-boiling water
• 3 cups cold water
• 1 apple, chopped
• 1 orange, with peel, sliced

Instructions

1. In a large cup or container, steep the tea bags in the hot water for 8 minutes. Discard the tea bags.
2. In a pitcher, combine the tea, cold water, and fruit. Refrigerate until tea is fully chilled, ~2 hours.
3. Serve in cute glasses over ice, add more chopped fruit if desired.

Sparkling Raspberry Kombucha Mocktail

Ingredients

• 2 bottles zero-sugar kombucha of choice (such as ginger, raspberry, or ‘original/unflavored’)
• ½ cup 100% sugar-free raspberry juice
• 1-inch slice of fresh ginger, thinly sliced, plus more for garnish
• 1 large sprig of fresh rosemary, plus more for garnish
• Fresh raspberries, rosemary sprigs, and thinly sliced ginger for garnish

Instructions

1. Fill 4 double old-fashioned glasses with ice and set aside.
2. In a pitcher or quart-sized mason jar, muddle sliced ginger and rosemary together using the end of a wooden spoon or a muddler if you have one.
3. Add sugar-free raspberry kombucha.
4. Pour into ice-filled glasses (using a strainer, if necessary) and garnish with sprigs of rosemary, a slice of fresh ginger before serving.

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About the Writer: Unhealthy eating habits from environmental and emotional factors resulted in unpredictable weight challenges for Pamela. She invested in herself, became a self-help coach, and regained control of her weight using habit awareness and eating natural foods. As a Personal Trainer Food team member, she continues her lifestyle commitment to eating natural foods and helping others live healthy through healthy eating.