ALCOHOL FREE spirit-tasting drinks, eg gin without the booze, does anyone have any accurate recipes?
I am trying to put together an alcohol free cocktail cabinet and so far am unable to find a reasonable gin/whisky/rum/vodka substitute. The whole point of this alcohol free cocktail cabinet is to enable me to host a party that everyone can enjoy - no drinking and driving means fruit juice/syrup based cocktails and that can get a bit boring after a while! So, over to you, my incredibly inventive and brilliant 'Ible friends.... thank you in advance.
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The juniper berry flavored soda from this company (plus a squeeze of lime) is a fairly convincing alternative to the gin and tonic http://www.drysoda.com/
Rum is produced from sugar-waste, you'll find "black treacle" or molasses will give you a (sweetened) rummy-flavour.
Good vodka doesn't taste of much else but alcohol, so forget that one.
Gin as Angry says is principally flavoured with Juniper berries, but can be rather complex.
Whisky can be very complex, but you might try boiling charred-oak in water & malt extract?
Be aware that many of these flavours are alcohol souluble, you'll struggle to make non-alcoholic substitutes. You can get Rum flavouring for baking, I don't know about the rest.
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Good vodka doesn't taste of much else but alcohol, so forget that one.
Gin as Angry says is principally flavoured with Juniper berries, but can be rather complex.
Whisky can be very complex, but you might try boiling charred-oak in water & malt extract?
Be aware that many of these flavours are alcohol souluble, you'll struggle to make non-alcoholic substitutes. You can get Rum flavouring for baking, I don't know about the rest.
L
Gin tastes like juniper berries (or pine trees), and you can find juniper berry extract and thin it out.
Whiskey generally tastes like oak barrels and malt/wheat.
Rum is kinda sweet.
Vodka is theoretically not supposed to taste like anything.
Personally I wouldn't drink any of them if there wasn't booze involved, so if I were making mixed virgin drinks, I'd leave out the whiskey/rum/gin/vodka/tequila entirely and not bother substituting or would use water.
Whiskey generally tastes like oak barrels and malt/wheat.
Rum is kinda sweet.
Vodka is theoretically not supposed to taste like anything.
Personally I wouldn't drink any of them if there wasn't booze involved, so if I were making mixed virgin drinks, I'd leave out the whiskey/rum/gin/vodka/tequila entirely and not bother substituting or would use water.
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