About a year ago, I was unable to drink alcohol for medical reasons. So I dove into some recipes for non-alcoholic cocktails, and I wasn't disappointed. There are loads of excellent non-alcoholic recipes that I enjoy just as much as their alcoholic counterparts.

This recipe is from the book Good Drinks:

• 1oz basil matcha syrup
• 1oz heavy cream or full-fat coconut milk
• 3/4 oz lime juice
• 3 oz soda water
• matcha for garnish

Shake syrup, cream, and juice with ice and strain into a Collins glass over ice. Add soda water carefully and garnish by sprinkling matcha powder on top.

Enjoy your Independence Day weekend!

Lei Lani Volcano from my favorite tiki book Smuggler's Cove! What are your favorite cocktail books?

Recipe:

• 3oz Bundaberg guava soda
• 1 1/2oz pineapple juice
• 3/4oz lime juice
• 1oz coconut cream
• 1 1/2oz blended aged rum

Add soda to a collins glass. Then add remaining ingredients to a cocktail shaker and fill with cracked or cubed ice. Shake and double strain into the glass. Gently add cracked or cubed ice to the glass and garnish.

2 ounces of your favorite tequila, 1 ounce triple sec, ¾ ounce fresh lime juice

Shake in a Boston shaker and pour. Simple as.

3 oz Aperol 3 oz Prosecco Top with seltzer

This one turned out just excellent! Very refreshing and perfect for summer! I even made one with Gin for my mom and that one turned out great too!

Recipe:

• 2 oz. Bourbon
• 3/4 oz. Maple Syrup
• 3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
• 4 Blackberries
• 6-8 Mint leaves
• 2 blackberries and a mint sprig for garnish

Add syrup, lemon juice, blackberries, and mint leaves to a shaker tin and muddle until the blackberries have been very juiced. Add the bourbon and shake with ice. Double strain into a rocks glass over a large ice cube and garnish with mint sprig and blackberries.-

Individual serving :

• 1.5 oz White Rum (I used Trader Joe's "Rum of the Gods")
• 1 oz Lemon Juice
• ¾ oz Orange liquor (I used Royale Orange)
• ½ oz simple syrup

1 1/2 oz (45 ml) vanilla vodka

1/2 oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice

1/2 oz (15 ml) fresh lime juice

1/2 oz (15 ml) orgeat

1 barspoon (1/6 oz [5 ml]) grenadine

Four Leaf Clover, for garnish

Tiki drink kinda night. Bought a bottle of black rum and wanted to try it out. Excuse the lack of tiki glassware and garnishes, but both very tasty.

Jungle bird: 2 oz black rum .75 oz Campari 2 oz pineapple juice .75 oz lime juice .5 oz simple syrup

Mr. Bali Hali 1.5 oz black rum 1 oz light rum .75 oz Coffee liqueur 1.5 oz pineapple juice 1 oz lemon juice .5 simple syrup

So simple and so tasty, just started making these recently.

Feel free to remove if this isn't quite a cocktail enough. Thought this was the community of people who'd be most likely to want to give it a try.

I know this kinda skirts the edge on being a cocktail, but saw the receipt at my local liquor store and had to try it. Plus content is content right?

1 Miller High Life 1 oz lemon juice 1 oz Aperol

I just made the Stiggin’s Fancy Old Fashioned from Educated Barfly's video from today. I think it turned out exceptionally and quite intense if you enjoy that spectrum of cocktails.

Recipe: 2oz (60ml) Pineapple Rum 1 Bar Spoon Coffee Liqueur 1/4oz (7.5ml) Demerara Syrup 1 Dash Angostura Bitters 1 Dash Regans’ Orange Bitters No. 6 (I used Bitterman's) Orange Twist

I've got a garnish this time!

• 1.5oz Blended black rum - Plantation OFTD
• 1.5oz Aged rum - Plantation 5 Year
• 1.5oz Orange juice
• 1.5oz Lime juice
• 1.5oz Passionfruit syrup
• 3oz Club soda to top

Shake with ice and strain into a glass with more ice. Top with club soda. Garnish with a mint sprig and a sidewinder

The Old Fashioned is my favorite drink. It introduced me to whiskey and mixology plus it's simple and versatile. I think it's easy to judge if a bar has good cocktails based solely on their Old Fashioned. What are your opinions, favorite variations, etc?

I always like to do a cocktail for releases of things I'm excited for. This is based on Greg from How to Drink's recipe, but with a few tweaks

• 1.5oz Wray and Nephew
• 1.5oz Plantation 5 Year
• .75oz Blue curacao
• .75oz Mint syrup
• Juice of half a lemon
• Club soda to top

Shake and strain, serve over crushed ice. Top with club soda, and more crushed ice. Garnish with a lemon twist.

I used the Wray and Nephew and the mint, because Romulan Ale is supposed to smell extremely strongly, and those ingredients definitely do. It's kind of like a funky Mojito. I like it a lot

Seems like posting might be possible now, so here's my drink from last night! I wanted something refreshing, but still complex.

• 1oz Aged rum - Plantation 5 Year
• .5oz Jamaican rum - Wray and Nephew
• .5oz Dark rum - Plantation OFTD
• .5oz Lime juice
• .3oz Rich simple syrup
• .5 barspoons Falernum
• .5 barspoons Grenadine
• 2 dashes Angostura aromatic bitters

Blend with ice, serve in a Collins glass, and top with more ice. Garnish with two maraschino cherries, and a mint sprig (which I ran out of)

My favorite dessert cocktail. Happy share the recipe if anyone is interested.

First time creating a community like this! r/cocktails was one of my favorite subreddits and I wanted to move it over. Posting here to get some content started and I hope you enjoy!

Recipie:

• 6-10 basil leaves (depending on size)
• 2 oz dry gin
• ½ oz Elderflower liqueur
• 1 oz Lime Juice
• ½ oz Honey syrup

Muddle Basil leaves in gin, then add in remaining ingredients. Shake with ice and double strain into glass. Garnish with a basil sprig. (side note: using purple basil makes the drink turn a lovely pink.)