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Mocktail recipes from The Bitter Bottle

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We asked owner of The Bitter Bottle Kaleena Goldsworthy-Warnock to share some of her favorite mocktail recipes.

Here’s what she said:

🍸Easy: Kombucha Margarita

Ingredients needed:

○ Kombucha of choice (my favorite this time of year is the lemon ginger or gingerade)

○ Agave

○ Lime

○ Salt (optional)

In a shaking tin, add:

○ 0.25 oz. Lime Juice

○ 0.5 oz. Agave nectar

○ Shake well and strain over ice into a salt-rimmed glass (salt optional). Top with kombucha and give a quick stir, then garnish with a lime wedge.

🍸Intermediate (prep intensive): Plum and Ginger Shrub-tail

For this, you need to make a shrub (can take up to 1 week). Ingredients needed:

○ 2 plums

○ 1 thumb of ginger

○ 1 cup apple cider vinegar

○ 1/2 cup honey

Directions:
○ Chop the plums and ginger up coarsely and add to a mason jar.

○ Cover the plums and ginger with honey and stir well (allow to sit for ~30 min.)

○ After 30 minutes, stir again and add 1 cup Apple Cider Vinegar

○ Seal the mason jar and shake daily until no more honey is visible at the bottom of the jar (2 - 3 days at the earliest). The longer you let this sit, the more flavor you will have!

○ When you’re satisfied with the flavors, strain out the botanical matter and bottle the liquid. (Refrigeration not necessary, but encouraged).

For the shrubtail:

○ Add 0.75 oz. Shrub to a glass full of ice (rocks glass)

○ Top with sparkling water (flavored is welcome!)

○ Garnish with citrus of choice (optional)

(ProTip: If it’s too tart, add a small amount of honey to sweeten.)

🍸Bitters and Soda

Yes, bitters are alcohol-based, but when you only add 2 - 4 dashes to a 5-8oz. glass of soda water, the drink doesn’t carry an alcohol content.

Find a bitters flavor you enjoy and spice up your soda!

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