2024 Mocktail Advent Calendar
Usually, we get three advent calendars (one for my husband, one for me, and one to share). This year, we decided just to do one that we would share with each other. We picked n/a spirits that we wanted to explore more, and then found recipes based on those spirits.
Our focus was to try recipes that we'd never had before, to expand our palettes!
1. Relaxed Triangle of Sadness
2. Whidbey Gin Rickey
3. Thai Basil Gimlet
4. Lei Away
5. Atypique Amaretto Sour RTD
6. Nouveau 75
7. Bicycle Thief
8. Gochujang Paloma
9. Mezcal NoGroni
10. Ozxacan Razor Blade
11. Do'Mo RTD
12. Mezcal Mule
13. Mezcal Killer Bee
14. Heywell Calm + Restore RTD
15. Peat's Dragon
16. Smoky Mezcal Whiskey Sour
17. Mezcal Negroni
18. Nope Rosemary Vanilla Lemonade RTD
19. Black Manhattan
20. Trader Joe's Something Spritzy (Pineapple)
21. Passioned Green Tea Whiskey
22. Mezcal Scotch Old Fashioned
23. Trader Joe's Something Spritzy
24. RSRV Orana RTD
We had some RTD's in there for the days that we had plans or were out of town so we didn't need to travel with bar items, but of the drinks we made, we loved about half of them enough to fold them into regular rotation!
We generally prefer "boozier", less sweet drinks. I'm a big fan of bitter, while my husband is less so, so it was interesting finding the balance between our flavor profiles to create an advent calendar. I've highlighted in green the drinks that we really enjoyed.
Let me know if you'd like the recipes for any of these - I always love sharing and chatting about the non-alcoholic world!
