Are you looking for a leading provider of bar services in Ottawa? There’s a movement afoot, and it’s not about booze. In the time that it’s taken for people to sober up and admit drinking too much, a sober-curious movement has arisen, encouraging people to try life sans libations. Mocktails are happily riding the prevailing booze-free wave, and being as creative and interesting as their alcoholic cousins, they are going from invisible to front and centre.
In Ottawa, with each passing day, jazzy, alternative beverages are increasingly balancing on the urban ledge between booze and sober poetic froths. There’s the fancy speakeasy, the hipster brunch joint, and the women’s night out hangout: zero-alcohol cocktail menus are popping up almost everywhere, offering experiences that go well beyond a rootbeer float.
Signature Mocktails
No meal is complete without at least one signature sipper, and The Pom Fashioned is a splashy, magenta mocktail with pomegranate and orange juice, bitters, and a swirl of rosemary. If tart is your thing, go with a cucumber-lime refresher. Three parts bright, bubbly, and brisk cucumber, lime, and soda water. Alternatively, pair your meal with a mocktail such as the Complex Paloma: an herbal liquid gold libation with the zing of ginger and lime, with an orchid as a dramatic garnish.
Botanical and Herbaceous Zero-Proof Sips
On the contrary, consider the Ginger Old Fashioned, which cleverly replaces the standard whisky with a super-assertive ginger shrub syrup, spiced up with cinnamon, oranges, and cloves. Another herbaceous option is the Hibiscus Lime Refresher, which pairs tart hibiscus with rose and elderflower. How about Seedlip and Tonic, which mixes the newly trendy, non-alcoholic Seedlip spirit with tonic and aromatic bitters? Then there’s the Aqua de Rhubarbe, a rhubarb soda paired with ginger and lime. (TIP: YD Fiesta offers bar services in Ottawa!)
Brunch-Worthy Mocktail Fusions
For a fruity, early-onset kick, the Morning Rita mingles blackberry and mango purees with lemon and habanero. The Coco Caliente proposes a more tropical, coconut-water-based model with pineapple and jalapeño for a refreshing mild (caliente means hot in Spanish) lounge sipper. For cocktail afficionados who like their non-cocktails tart, the rosita (rusa means red in Spanish, but that’s not the only reason why), with its red grapefruit and lime juices and dash of cinnamon, teases the sensory receptors.
Moroccan-Inspired Mocktail Flavours
Drink the Lemon Mint Rebel, a lemony citrus lemonade with a kick of muddled mint leaves and rose water. Are you up for a classic Moroccan mint tea with green tea and ample mint? If you fancy something a tad fruitier, the Strawberry Lime Smash mocktail combines muddled berries with citrus juices. It’s topped by a raspberry-mint soda for a fizzy finish.
Whether you’re trying Dry January for the first time, reassessing your relationship with alcohol, or simply looking forward to committing yourself to some new flavour experiences, this much is true: Ottawa’s mocktail scene is a flourishing one. Mocktails offer a satisfying, alcohol-free alternative to thoughtfully crafted cocktails, and they prove that sobriety doesn’t have to be synonymous with boredom. Drink to that! Call YD Fiesta now to learn about its bar services in Ottawa!
