Non-Alcoholic Beer, Spirits & Wine: Grapefruit Mockarita Recipe

You’ve been blessed with a growing bump and you’re over the moon. The life inside of you is so precious and you will do everything to make sure you give it all you got. Even sacrificing the yummiest foods and thirst quenching drinks we love- we don’t think twice about doing it all for our baby. Although I know we do miss a few things over the 9 month + nursing. I am not a heavy drinking nor have I ever been but I can tell you after a long hot summer day, sitting down with a cocktail is very refreshing and rewarding. Some like to pop the top of a cool refreshing beer others like to mix up a cocktail that throws a twist on a boring can of coke or glass of juice.

Last week I was invited to a mocktail lunch in Toronto. I was very intrigued to learn more about the focus of the event premiumnearbeer.com. PremiumNearBeer.com is an on-line retailer filled with non-alcoholic alternatives such as Beer, Wine, Ciders, Bitters and the first in the world to sell non-alcoholic Spirits.

Some people gave me a little chuckle when I said I was going to be drinking non-alcoholic drinks at this event. Many said what is the point?

Besides being pregnant, nursing, or the designated driver at the next big bash. Many people choose to live an alcoholic lifestyle for many reasons you may not even think of as a bystander, such as; religion, weight loss, personal choices or health reasons such as Ted the founder of PremiumNearBeer.com.

Ted was diagnosed with a chronic illness that ultimately led him to accept that he needed to eliminate alcohol from his diet. Ted like most of us, enjoyed the occasional bottle of beer and seen an opportunity to bring forth a website for non-alcoholics to choose their drink of choice and have them shipped to their door.

The event was filled with lots of non-alcoholic fluids and I am very surprise to say, the mocktails we drank tasted just like the real thing. They were refreshing and fulfilled the bubbly feeling you get when you drink an alcoholic filled cocktail. But the best part is I wasn’t left dehydrated and since all their non-alcoholic spirits are sugar free and calorie free I felt like I was doing my body good with each sip.

Grapefruit Mockarita

• 2oz Arkay Margarita 
• 1 oz Arkay Orange Napoleon
• 1 oz Simple Syrup
• 1 oz Lime Juice
• 1 oz Grapefruit Soda
• 3 dashes of Grapefruit Bitters

In a shaker cup with ice add the first 4 ingredients and shake well. Fill a highball glass from the shaker cup, top with Grapefruit Soda and add 3 dashes of Grapefruit Bitters. Garnish with grapefruit wedge and enjoy your Non-Alcoholic Grapefruit Mockarita!

Non-Alcoholic Beer

We also had a non-alcoholic Beer tasting with Beer expert Crystal Luxmore. Since I am not a huge beer drinker I brought along my sister who enjoys the occasional bottle of beer. She was overly surprised how close they tasted to an alcoholic beer and said they were better than the grocery store options she tried when pregnant.

My favourite from the non-alcoholic beer line up was Spirit Tree Estate Non-Alcoholic Cider. It is lightly carbonated and tastes just like freshly picked apples. You can find a non-alcoholic beer for all taste buds on PremiumNearBeer.com such as; Lagers, Ales, and Wheat Beer.

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