10 Non-Alcoholic Cocktails That Aren’t Too Sweet

When it comes to making or ordering a non-alcoholic drink, there are generally two camps: seltzer water and something super sugary. That’s lame. Where are the delicious drinks without booze that have a little more depth? Something that goes beyond, you know, lemonade?

With a mission to find better non-alcoholic drinks, I scavenged the depths of Pinterest and found 15 cocktails that fit the bill. There’s a lot of citrus, ginger, and rosemary ahead. Happy sipping!

The key to this delightfully refreshing drink is the rosemary simple syrup and a splash of lemon-lime soda. Both of these sugar sources balance the bitter grapefruit and refreshing cucumber.

→ Get the recipe: Grapefruit Rosemary Fizz from The Merrythought

Cubed watermelon is blended with ginger syrup, lime juice, mint, and sparkling water.

→ Get the recipe: Watermelon Ginger Spritzer from Kitchen Konfidence

Seasonal rhubarb is mixed with agave, apple cider vinegar, and sparkling water to create a totally unique drink.

→ Get the recipe: Fizzy Rhubarb Shrub from Yummy Supper

Rosemary simple syrup is mixed with tangerine juice, lime juice, club soda, and some lemon-lime soda.

→ Get the recipe: Tangerine Rosemary Mocktail from The Merrythought

For this cocktail you combine a homemade peach shrub with apple cider, sage leaves, and grated nutmeg.

→ Get the recipe: Peach Shrub Mocktail from Set the Table

This cocktail combines apple cider, lemon juice, a thyme simple syrup, and good tonic water.

→ Get the recipe: Cider, Thyme and Tonic Mocktail from Offbeat and Inspired

There are a lot of juices in this cocktail, which would normally sound too sweet for me, but one of the fruits – pineapple – is put on the grill first to make things a little more interesting.

→ Get the recipe: Grilled Pineapple and Lime Mocktail from The Merrythought

This mocktail combines orange juice, sparkling water, ginger, and clementine slices.

→ Get the recipe: Virgin Ginger Mimosas from In Sonnet’s Kitchen

This recipe combines mint leaves, lime juice, a small amount of maple syrup, blueberry juice, and club soda.

→ Get the recipe: Blueberry Maple Mojito Mocktail from Healthy Recipe Ecstasy

This mocktail recipe combines fresh cucumber juice, lime juice, the smallest amount of sugar, and ginger ale.

→ Get the recipe: Cucumber Cooler from The Merrythought