Summertime is here which means lots of outside gatherings: cookouts, BBQs, garden parties, graduation parties, wedding showers, and more. If you’re looking for ways to make large batches of beverages for your event, here are some great easy, refreshing, and hydrating summer drink options that are non-alcoholic drinks. Enjoy your sober girl summer!
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Sweet Summer Sun Tea
Any ol’ Southern lady can make a mean glass of sweet tea on the stove top with a pot of boiling water and some black tea bags to steep. Or green tea or mint from her garden.
Some of those ladies get a little heavy handed on the sugar. Others choose to sweeten with honey. Most of the older Southern ladies I know choose unsweetened iced tea. To save on the calories.
In fact, in the South, we call it “tea” and generally you specify if you’d like yours sweet or unsweet. “Tea” in the South is always iced unless you specifically say “hot tea”.
Moving on, though. Have you ever harnessed the power of the our God-given sun to make sweet summer sun tea?
There seems to be a hint of sun rays you can actually taste in each sip. Lighter in tea flavor but just as delicious as a “pot of hot water on the stove” pitcher of tea, if not better.
Honestly, I think sun tea is better than stove top tea. Try it and taste the difference for yourself.
Homemade Ginger Ale Soda
This homemade ginger ale soda comes as a bonus after you make a cold and flu fighting, alcohol-free cough syrup. A simple zero waste opportunity for your honey-fermented lemon and ginger cold and cough syrup. And you’ll still grab some of those immune-boosting properties in this soda as well!
If you like carbonated or sparkling water but don’t like:
- sugar
- high fructose corn syrup
- natural flavors
Then grabbing yourself an at-home soda water maker is the ticket!
This way you get to be in full control over what goes into your carbonated beverages.
Detoxifying Infused Water
Insanely easy to make, infused water is the perfect way to get away from powdered drink mix options and into more organic beverage choices.
Growing your own herbs is the single best way to ensure the quality of herbs is organic, spray-free, chemical-free. But if you cannot grow your own, be sure to source them from reputable growers or buy organic herbs at the grocery.
Added bonus: make your infused water an electrolyte water by adding in Redmond’s Real Salt before icing it.
Lavender Lemonade
Herbal lemonades add more than just a special flavor to your lemonade. Herbs pack powerful punches of added nutrients and vitamins.
Definitely don’t sleep on what herbs can do for you.
Lavender makes the lemonade a pretty pink color and adds just a hint of floral to this lemonade that is both delightful, surprising, and delicious.
Additionally, you can make a mint lemonade, lemon balm lemonade, basil lemonade, rosemary lemonade, and more!
Strawberry Top Syrup, a drink add-in
Perfect for adding to a homemade lemonade drink or even a sparkling water, make this strawberry syrup drink add-in from the tops of strawberries.
No need to waste those strawberry tops! Turn them into a non-alcoholic drinks add-in.
Yep, even the leaves help to make this syrup and pack it full of nutrients and Vitamin C.
Iced Elderberry Tea
Elderberry is a powerhouse berry full of immune boosting properties.
If you’re into making your own elderberry syrup from kits you can buy online (here is my favorite small business to buy kits from: Mountain Creek Grocery), use the leftovers after making syrup to create a hot or iced elderberry tea.
This stretches the cost of the kit and creates a zero waste product when you add the last of the kit to your compost bin.
I also like to repurpose the syrup kit contents into a tea because it’s not as strong as the syrup which makes it a perfect tea to sip on while still getting those immune boosters, too!
To make the iced version, follow the steps in recipe below then allow the tea to cool before adding ice and enjoying a refreshing sipper as another choice in non-alcoholic drinks for this summer.
More non-alcoholic drinks to choose from:
I asked around and was offered a few other ideas from my blogging friends for non-alcoholic drinks suggestions to give us more options.
If you like iced coffee, try this recipe in the button below. Allow the coffee to cool some then add ice! Don’t be fooled by the name “Christmas Morning Coffee“– it’s delightfully tasty as an iced coffee and you get to save a ton of money making it right at home!
Save this post below for WINTERTIME non-alcoholic beverages and mocktails. Parties and gatherings come back again at the holidays. Be ready to indulge in a beverage or two without the hangover or alcohol sensitivities (splotchy skin, red neck hives, anyone??).
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