Six New Cocktails, Alcohol Not Included
'If youre feeling a bit pickled after a month of holiday celebration or just prefer to keep your drinking to a minimum, regardless of season take heart: Its an especially good time to be a teetotaler. Across the country this year, restaurants are beginning to respond to the vogue for dry January or Drynuary, the practice of starting the year off free of alcohol. (Its adherents swear by the practices benefits: a reset for weary livers, incidental weight loss, better sleep and, perhaps, the feelings of accomplishment and reassurance that attend proving to oneself that taking a month off drinking is possible in the first place.)
Thankfully, with increased demand come better offerings. Gone are syrupy Shirley Temple variants and lazy, tequila-free margaritas; mixologists are instead giving alcohol-less options the same care and attention they do to their standard cocktails. That directive has been facilitated by the stateside arrival last year of Seedlip, a nonalcoholic spirit distilled like liquor in either spiced or botanical variants, which originally debuted in London in 2015.
Here, bartenders and beverage directors across America many of whom are introducing full drink menus at their restaurants this month share alcohol-free cocktail recipes for those observing dry January. (Those who dont drink all year round are, of course, equally welcome to enjoy them.) A word to the wise: avoid the word mocktail. Try calling them zero-proof instead.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/t-magazine/food/dryanuary-no-alcohol-cocktails.html?