Cocktails and Mocktails to Sip to 2019

• 6 fresh strawberries hulled
• ½ teaspoon of lime juice
• 1 fl oz light rum
• ¼ teaspoon orange extract
• Ice cubes optional
• Sugar-free liquid sweetener if needed

• 2 large strawberries, hulled
• 2 tablespoons stevia (or any other sugar alternative of your choice)
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 180ml chilled lemonade
• 4 cubes of ice

1. Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
2. Add ice for a long drink.
3. Add liquid sweetener if preferred.

1. In a blender, combine all ingredients and blend until smooth.
2. Pour into your favourite fancy glass to serve.

• 2 ounces gin
• 4 to 5 ounces tonic water (or soda water)

Garnish: lime wedge

• 3 cup of water
• ¼ cup whole juniper berries
• 1 teaspoon of anise seed
• ½ teaspoon coriander seed
• ½ lemon, peel only
• ¼ grapefruit, peel only
• ½ cup sugar
• tonic water (or soda water)

1. Gather the ingredients.
2. In a highball glass filled with ice cubes, pour the gin then top it with tonic.
3. Next stir well.
4. Lastly, garnish with a lime wedge.

1. In a small pan, gently toast the juniper berries, anise and coriander seed until golden brown and fragrant.
2. Then, grind the spices in a coffee grinder, mortar, and pestle, or in a ziplock and smash it with a rolling pin.
3. To a medium sized pot add the water, lemon peel, grapefruit peel, ground spices and sugar. Bring this mixture to a boil and reduce to a simmer for at least 15 minutes.
4. Let this mixture rest at room temperature for 4 hours. Strain out the solids and store the juniper infusion in the fridge in a covered glass jar.
5. When ready to serve, fill a glass with ice, add a splash of the juniper infusion, tonic and a squeeze of lime! Adjust the juniper amount and add it to taste.

• 2 oz. vodka
• ½ oz. lime juice
• 6 oz. ginger beer

• 1 lime (1-2 tablespoons juice, fresh is best)
• 1 tablespoon simple syrup (or stevia solution)
• ¼ cup club soda
• 3-4 mint leaves (torn, optional)
• ¾ cup ginger beer
• crushed ice

1. Squeeze lime juice into a glass (or mug) and drop in the spent rind.
2. Add 2 or 3 ice cubes, then pour in the vodka and fill with cold ginger beer.
3. Serve with a stirring rod.

1. At the bottom of a cup, pour juice from lime, simple syrup and club soda.
2. Add mint leaves if desired.
3. Then fill the cup about halfway with ice.
4. Next pour about ¾ cup of ginger beer over the ice.
5. Garnish with mint leaves and a lime wedge if desired, and serve.

• 1 oz Gin
• 2 oz Sherry
• 1 dash celery bitters
• Olives

• 1-ounce ginger syrup (method below)
• 2-ounce pear nectar
• 8-ounces plain or pear seltzer

1. Stir ingredients with ice.
2. Then strain into a glass.
3. Lastly, garnish with an olive.

1. Place ½ cup sugar, 2 cups water, and sliced ginger (your preferred amount) in a small saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar.
2. Reduce heat to low, and simmer ginger for about 30 minutes, or until tender.
3. Strain ginger, reserving syrup.
4. Then pour the syrup into a drink container with a lid, and refrigerate until cool. The syrup can be made several days ahead.
5. For a mocktail, stir ingredients together and pour over a glass with ice.

• 60 ml gin
• 30 ml fresh lime juice
• 15 ml sugar syrup (1:1) or stevia syrup

• 2 dry Soda
• 1 oz grapefruit juice
• 2 oz sparkling limeade
• Mint to garnish

1. Fill a glass with ice
2. Add the gin, fresh lime juice and sugar syrup
3. Shake and strain into a chilled coupe glass
4. Lastly, garnish with a lime wheel

1. Pour all the ingredients in a glass over ice and stir, muddling mint as you stir.