I love a good mocktail! I love asking the waiter or bartender to try to make me something fruity and fun without alcohol (and for me, no bitters as they can contain alcohol sometimes). It’s like an adventure with each new restaurant or bar I visit.
I just had a delightful orange-citrus banger at a speakeasy last week when a friend was visiting from across the country.
Unlike the rise of the alcohol free mixer movement I mentioned earlier, mocktails have existed forever and are typically a mixture of juices and seltzers to give an alcohol free person the same vibe as a ‘regular’ adult beverage without any actual booze. Often there is a lot of ice and there is almost always a straw (the better to indicate it’s alcohol free-ness of course).
