To celebrate World Vegan Day, Fentiman’s has shared some of its favourite vegan cocktail recipes.
Refreshing grapefruit paloma
Grapefruit can be an acquired taste, but in a cocktail, it is refreshing and light with a little fizz. Mixing this drink also creates a beautiful light pink hue. Similar to a margarita cocktail, the paloma is a popular drink in Mexico.
Ingredients
45ml tequila
Fentimans’ soda water
60ml squeezed grapefruit juice
1 tablespoon sugar
Kosher salt
Cubed or crushed ice
Method
Run a wedge of grapefruit around the rim of a margarita glass and then dip in salt. Fill the glass with ice to keep it cool.
Mix and stir the grapefruit juice with the sugar and then add the juice and tequila to a cocktail shaker filled half with ice. Shake the cocktail shaker vigorously.
Pour into the margarita glass and top off with Fentiman’s soda water to taste. Stir and garnish with a slice of grapefruit.
Strawberry lemonade
Full of fruity flavour with the perfect kick of alcohol, this cocktail might go down just a little bit too easily. The Fentiman’s Victorian Lemonade has the juice of one and a half lemons in each bottle and is botanically brewed for a unique kick – it is certainly more than the average lemonade, which makes this drink extra special.
Ingredients
35ml berry vodka
Fentiman’s Victorian Lemonade
Dash of sugar syrup
2 strawberries, diced
Fresh mint
Lemon wedge
Method
Muddle the strawberries in the sugar syrup. Then, add mint and vodka and stir.
Add ice and top up with Fentiman’s Victorian Lemonade. Garnish with mint, lemon, and strawberries.
If you want to remove bits, shake all the ingredients apart from the lemonade in a cocktail shaker and strain into the glass.
Indian summer cup
Impress your guests with this aromatic, sweet, cocktail that they can help themselves to. Packed with many different flavours, this drink is sure to get the party started.
Ingredients
1 litre bottle London dry gin
1 litre bottle of vegan-friendly sweet vermouth
240ml elderflower liqueur
240ml peach liqueur
710ml lemon syrup
460ml apple juice
1000ml chilled Fentiman’s tonic water
460ml chilled sparkling water
Ice
1 sliced green apple
2 sliced peaches
6 long and thin cucumber slices
30g torn mint leaves
Method
In a large bowl, combine the gin, vermouth, elderflower, peach liqueurs, lemon syrup, and apple juice. Refrigerate for about four hours until it is chilled.
When chilled, stir in the tonic water and sparkling water.
Add ice and garnish with the apple, peaches, cucumber, and mint leaves.
Black cherry bourbon cola
Sweet, simple, and popular with everyone. It’s well known that cola and cherries go well together. Just add bourbon and you’ve created the perfect summer drink for later in the day. The bonus is that if cola makes it that little bit too sweet for you, Fentiman’s Ginger Beer or soda water make for the ideal mixer to change up the flavours.
Ingredients
30ml bourbon
15ml cherry brandy
3 black cherries, pitted
Quarter of a lime, juiced (and a wedge to garnish )
Chilled Fentiman’s Curiosity Cola
Ginger beer and soda water, optional
Method
Muddle the cherries and then mix in a cocktail shaker with the cherries, bourbon, brandy, lime juice, and ice.
Strain the cocktail over a glass with ice in.
Top up with cola (and ginger beer and soda water, if desired, to taste ) and serve with a wedge of lime.
Raspberry mojito
Everyone loves a mojito, and the best thing about this recipe is that you can simply change the fruit for different flavours. Easy to drink and very refreshing, this cocktail is one of the easiest to make.
Ingredients
60ml white rum
Fentiman’s Soda Water
5 raspberries
1 lime, freshly squeezed
1 tsp sugar
Small handful of mint leaves
Ice
Method
Muddle the raspberries, mint, and sugar together in the juice that you have freshly squeezed from the lime.
Pour the cocktail over ice into a tall glass.
Add the rum while stirring with a spoon. Top up with soda water to taste and serve with mint.
