For weekends or days off where you can sleep off some extra alcohol mixing up some great cocktails to sip on at home or with friends is a great idea. But if you have to work or study tomorrow… a mocktail might be a better option.
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Easy Mocktail Recipe to Try at Home (Part 1)
Luckily there are plenty of excellent non-alcoholic drink recipes out there to try some of which even mimic the look and taste of popular cocktails like the virgin piña colada. If you still want a little bit of a boozy buzz in your drink LifeHackers has a clever trick for you: use flat tonic water.
If you’ve ever tried to mix a gin and tonic you’ll remember that part of the appeal of tonic water as a cocktail ingredient is the fizzy bubbles. That’s not enough here — for the best mocktails you want your tonic water to be flat. The carbonation will only distract from the flavors of the infusion you’re about to create. So mix it with a bunch of other ingredients including botanicals like juniper berries. The result is a mock alcohol that tastes surprisingly like gin and you can use it to mimic all sorts of botanical-forward mocktails like a virgin dry martini!
Tonic water has two main flavor components: sugar which provides sweetness and quinine which provides a bitter undertone. For those who know their way around a liqueur shelf you’ll find that these two basic flavors form the flavor foundation of many botanicals. Take absinthe for example which has bitter wormwood and sweet anise as its core flavors. Aquavit (particularly the cask-matured variety) also has a similar blend of flavors. The mix of herbs and spices adds a bitter note while the time spent maturing in sherry casks gives it a slightly sweet vanilla-like flavor.
