Brad Yates joins us on What’s Brewing Wisconsin to share some mocktails to enhance your Thanksgiving!
Apple Barley Old Fashioned
Ingredients:
2 oz strong-brewed chilled barley tea bag (poured from 10 oz of hot water brewed with two tea bags)*
5 dashes Angostura bitters
5 dashes molasses bitters
.5 oz simple syrup
1 oz apple cider
Splash of club soda – optional
Instructions:
Stir ingredients and garnish with an orange swath and two Luxardo cherries.
*Substitutes for barley tea include other roasted grain teas like buckwheat tea or brown rice tea, as well as genmaicha. For a caffeine-free, coffee-like beverage, try roasted dandelion tea or chicory. For a non-grain alternative, consider herbal teas made with ingredients like chrysanthemum, jujube, or goji berries.
No Turkey
Ingredients:
1 oz apple cider
1 oz cranberry juice
1 oz herb syrup*
.5 oz lime juice
Instructions:
Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cordial glass.
*Herb Syrup: 2 tsp fennel seed 2 tsp celery seed 6 stems (.5 oz) of sage ½ cup sugar 1 cup water. Place all ingredients into a pot and bring to a boil. Cool, strain, and pour into a bottle.
Cranberry Apple No-Mosa
Ingredients:
2 oz apple cider
4 oz cranberry juice
Soda water
1 Tbsp Lemon juice
Sugar in a dish (for the rim)
Lemon slice or peel (optional)
Instructions:
Dip the top of the flute in water and then immediately dip into sugar dish. Add apple cider to the flute. Add cranberry juice to the flute. Add a splash of soda water for bubbles. Top with lemon juice. Garnish with a lemon slice or peel (optional).
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