Spirit-free Sips for 2025

Following the decadence of the holidays, people often like to reset with the new year and sometimes that involves abstaining from alcohol for at least a month. Dry January doesn’t mean that you have to settle for boring, uninspired beverages. Here are seven sophisticated spirit-free drinks we like for this new year.

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Free Bird

Course Drinks

Keyword Amaro Lucano NA, cherry juice, cranberry, lime, Passion fruit, pineapple, Simple syrup

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Amaro Lucano NA
• 1 ½ oz. Pineapple juice
• ¾ oz. Cranberry juice
• ½ oz. Passion fruit juice
• ½ oz. Lime juice
• ⅓ oz. Cherry juice
• ½ oz. Simple syrup

Instructions

• Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake.
• Strain into a highball glass with fresh ice.
• Garnish with 2 mint sprigs and slice of dehydrated lemon.

Notes

The mixologists at Amaro Lucano created this recipe.

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Discover

Course Drinks

Keyword Cinnamon syrup, lemon, nonalcoholic sparkling wine, pineapple, The Pathfinder Hemp and Root nonalcoholic spirit

Ingredients

• ¼ oz. Lemon juice
• ¾ oz. Pineapple juice
• ½ oz. Cinnamon syrup
• 1 ½ oz. Pathfinder non-alcoholic amaro
• Top with Prima Pave non-alcoholic sparkling wine

Instructions

• Combine ingredients (except wine) and shake.
• Pour into wine glass.
• Top with NA sparkling wine.
• Garnish with a lemon wheel.

Notes

The mixologists at Park Hyatt New York created this recipe.

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Island Time

Course Drinks

Keyword club soda, Ginger syrup, honey syrup, lemon, pineapple

Ingredients

• ¾ oz. Ginger syrup
• 2 oz. Pineapple juice
• ¾ oz. Lemon juice
• ½ oz. Honey syrup
• Club soda

Instructions

• Pour all ingredients into a shaker.
• Add ice, and shake hard.
• Strain into Collins glass.
• Garnish with a mint leaf.

Notes

The mixologists at Dear Strangers in New York created this recipe

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N/A Floradora

Course Drinks

Keyword ginger beer, lime, NA gin, raspberries, Simple syrup

Ingredients

• Handful of fresh raspberries
• 1 ½ oz. Non-alcoholic gin
• 1 oz. Fresh lime juice
• ½ oz. Simple syrup
• Ginger beer to top off

Instructions

• In a cocktail shaker, add a handful of fresh raspberries.
• Use a muddler or the back of a spoon to gently mash the raspberries, releasing their juices.
• Pour in the non-alcoholic gin, lime juice, and simple syrup.
• Fill the shaker with ice and shake.
• Strain the mixture into a glass filled with ice.
• Top with ginger beer and stir.

Notes

The mixologists at SHOR Bazaar in Los Angeles created this recipe.

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#GINNING

Course Drinks

Keyword elderflower syrup, ginger beer, lemon, Lyre’s London Dry spirit

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Lyre’s London Dry
• ½ oz. Monin elderflower syrup
• ¾ oz. Lemon juice
• Fever Tree ginger beer

Instructions

• Combine first three ingredients in mixing tin with ice
• Shake and strain into Champagne flute.
• Top with ginger beer.
• Garnish with coconut whip and gold dust.

Notes

The mixologists at Lovelorn Lounge in the Tempo by Hilton Nashville Downtown created this recipe.

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Fresh Widow

Course Drinks

Keyword beet tea, grapefruit soda, lime, pineapple, Simple syrup

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Beet tea
• ½ oz. Pineapple
• ¼ oz. Simple syrup
• ¼ oz. Lime juice
• 2 oz. Fever Tree grapefruit soda
• Lime wedge

Instructions

• Combine tea, pineapple, syrup and lime juice.
• Shake well and strain into a highball glass.
• Top grapefruit soda and stir.
• Garnish with a lime wedge.

Notes

Jessica Dure, beverage director at South Village Hospitality, created this recipe for Cosmo in New York.

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Lavender Lie

Course Drinks

Keyword butterfly pea flower tea, grapefruit, lavender syrup, lemon, Ritual NA tequila

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Ritual alcohol-free tequila
• ¾ oz. Lavender syrup
• 1 oz. Lemon
• ½ oz. Grapefruit juice
• 1 tsp. Butterfly pea flower

Instructions

• Combine ingredients and shake.
• Strain into coupe glass.

Notes

The mixologists at Dirty Habit in Hotel Zelos in San Francisco created this recipe.