If you love a cocktail but have committed to Dry January (it’s fine if you have, but don’t feel the need to tell everyone. All the time.) then you’ll need some top no or low alcoholic alternatives. We’ve pulled together some simple but superb Dry January cocktails to ensure those looking to drink less, can still drink well. Pineapple Jalapeño Margarita, anyone?
Delicious Dry January cocktails
Light, refreshing and so easy to make
Pentire Seaward Grapefruit Spritz
First thing first is a delightful Spritz, perfect for bringing some sunshine into these colder autumnal days. The recipe is from Pentire, which makes full use of its coastal and refreshing tipple Seaward (made with sea rosemary, sea buckthorn, wild seaweed) as a base and combines it with fresh grapefruit juice, honey, and a mixer of your choice.
75ml Pentire Seaward
50ml fresh grapefruit juice
1 tsp honey
100ml soda water or light tonic
Pour the ingredients above into a highball glass or wine glass full of ice, then garnish with a grapefruit wedge and/or bay leaf.
Bright, fruity, and fun. Dry January doesn’t need to be miserable
Pineapple Jalapeño Margarita
A recipe that combines several tasty ingredients while still being easy enough to mix up at home, this layered and complex take on Margarita is the perfect way to demonstrate great cocktails can be made with no-and-low alternatives. Seedlip Garden 108 is a herbaceous, complex base made with hay, pea, rosemary, spearmint, and thyme that ensures you won’t miss your usual agave-based goodness at the core of this classic.
50ml Seedlip Garden 108
10ml agave syrup
25ml pineapple juice
10ml fresh lime juice
2 slices of jalapeño
Apply a nice salt rim to your serving glass before juicing one lime and cutting slices of jalapeño. Lightly muddle all ingredients in a shaker. Add ice & shake & strain over ice. Garnish with a dehydrated pineapple wheel.
The humble Espresso No-tini.
Espresso No-tini
Nothing beats a good cocktail at the end of the day, but a truly great Espresso Martini is welcome anytime. You don’t have to go without this month, however, thanks to this recipe.
50ml Lyre’s Non-Alcoholic Coffee Originale Spirit
150ml quality black coffee
5ml Sugar syrup
One egg white
Add all your ingredients to a cocktail shaker with plenty of ice and give it a hard shake for at least a minute. Strain the mix into Martini glass and then garnish with coffee beans.
Easy, yet so effective
Darjeeling Nightcap
An intriguing non-alcoholic alternative featuring a naturally soothing botanical drink that mirrors whisky or rum thanks to a mix of tree saps, aromatic plants, and bright spices used for centuries for traditional remedies. On its own, Three Spirit Nightcap is the perfect after-dinner option but there the sparkling tea adds some pep and brightness, making it the perfect accompaniment to food.
50ml Three Spirit Nightcap
Saicho Darjeeling Sparkling Tea
Fill a rocks glass with ice and add 50ml Three Spirit Nightcap. Top with cold-brewed Darjeeling Sparkling Tea by Saicho and then garnish with liquorice root and citrus peels.
