Non Alcoholic Drinks
water kefir: https://wellnessmama.com/2261/water-kefir-soda/
homemade ginger ale
Ginger beer
Ginger switchel
Shrubs: The term "shrub" can also be applied to the sweetened vinegar-based syrup, from which the cocktail is made; the syrup is also known as drinking vinegar. Drinking vinegar is often infused with fruit juice, herbs and spices for use in mixed drinks.
http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2011/06/cocktail-101-how-to-make-shrub-syrups.html
Shrubs are a great way to make flavorings for soda water, esp if you like tart and vinegar.
Tonic water: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1014759-tonic-syrup
Rooh Afza - you can find it at Indian grocery stores. Syrupy rose water that hits the same palate as some aperitifs.
Soda water with flavored vinegars in summertime...and all the coffee!
Soda water with a drop of grapefruit essential oil. That's what I do. Need a soda stream.
Spindrift: It's naturally flavored sparkling water that has very few calories and comes in a lot of flavors!
Peychaud's!
know bitters are alcohol but depending on how strict you are, I like a couple dashes to flavor some sparkling water... probably less alcohol than kombucha.
A favorite of mine is Bosc pear with cilantro thru the juicer, a lil cucumber and/or celery lightens the sweetness. Seriously delicious.
been hydrating chia seeds (3T in a pint of warm water) and adding juice or flavored water to make my own chia drinks lately.
Vanilla Chai tea, sparkling water mixed with fruit juice
Red Zinger tea cut w unfiltered apple juice or really any juice
Mexican Aguas Frescas. They come in many many fruit and nut flavors and are incredibly simple to make (usually) and refreshing on a hot day. A couple of my favorites are cucumber and horchata!
I use my sodastream along with bitters or natural flavor extracts as flavoring to get away for the aluminum cans of la Croix I was being so wasteful with. It's Pretty cool and SO many flavors out there. Lemon & lavender bitters combined is pretty amazeballs! Ive yet to find a pamplemousse replacement yet tho (grapefruit) the bitters isn't quite right.
Shrubs! Bitters in sparkling water, a splash of fancy juice in sparkling water, and if you like brewing kombucha you could try brewing jun - fermented with a SCOBY just like kombucha but made with green tea and has a slightly different (more floral?) flavor
I also love herbal sipping vinegars and oxymels, and homemade soda (like ginger ale) isn't too tough. Oh and another fun ferment is water kefir
I’m a big fan of tamarind water or Jamaica (hibiscus) water but I don’t drink it that often because of the sugar content
Martinelli’s sparkling apple cider. We used to call it “kids wine” at the holidays. I usually water it down or add it to kombucha to cut the sugar.
The Welch's "sangria" sparkling juice is even better (IMO). I find sparkling cider to be a bit too sweet. http://juice.drinkmeiers.com/
Dark chocolate almond milk
We keep it pretty simple at my house. We like lemonades and limeade. I also like horchata.
Mostly soda water with a bit of tonic water tastes like you are drinking alcohol
Lime and tonic for me.
I like to muddle berries with lime and mint and top off with soda water. Just keeping adding soda water t the merry mix all day.
I make Kombucha but also a product called shrubs which you may find interesting. They are drinking vinegars you can add to soda water.
Bai antioxidant drinks are tasty. Zevia is a Stevia based drink for soda fans. I like the grape flavor. I just had the Defender tea from Teavana today and really enjoyed it.
Throat Coat tea from Traditional Medicinals. It has a sweet aftertaste without having any sugar in it. - Part of that sweetness is from slippery elm which is a great all around medicinal (the glycoproteins are good for the GI tract and bladder too). The kava relax tea from Yogi teas is great too and has that nice sweetness.
BYOB Carbonators:
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