Section

Low & No

Mocktails, spritzes and alcohol-free drinks with flavour.

7 drinks
4min Low & No · Picker How to make a shrub: a fruit, sugar and vinegar builder for tart alcohol-free drinks A shrub is a drinking vinegar: fruit and sugar left together until they make a syrup, then sharpened with vinegar. Stirred into sparkling… 4 min 5min Low & No · Picker Why does tonic water taste bitter? Quinine, sugar and a mixer ratio builder Tonic water tastes bitter because of quinine, a compound from cinchona bark, and the amount in your glass depends on how you pour. This… 5 min 4min Low & No · Picker How to make lemonade that is not too sharp or too sweet: a balance pad Lemonade tastes right when sugar and lemon acid are in balance, not when you follow one fixed recipe. Fresh lemon juice is roughly 5%… 4 min 4min Low & No · Picker How to make an alcohol-free spritz: a 3-2-1 builder for bitter, sweet and fizz Most alcohol-free spritzes taste like orange squash with soda in it. The fix is proportion, not a fancier bottle. This piece explains the… 4 min 3 picks 5min Low & No · Picker How to make ginger fizz at home: a syrup scaler, no fermenting needed A ginger fizz is just ginger syrup, lime and cold soda water, with no fermenting needed. This piece gives the spec for one glass, a simple… 5 min 3 picks 5min Low & No · Explainer Why cold water makes better fizz: how temperature controls carbonation Cold water holds about twice as much carbon dioxide as room-temperature water, which is why chilled water makes much fizzier sparkling… 5 min 3 picks 4min Low & No · Picker How to make a shrub: the sweet-sour fruit syrup behind alcohol-free drinks A shrub is fruit, sugar and vinegar left together until it turns into a syrup that is sweet, sour and fruity all at once. Topped with… 4 min