To help stabilize the essential oil mixture, in water, gum Arabic is indispensable. Mix until combined in a container that is at least 500 ml (2 cups) in size. Take your oils and mix them with 1 tablespoon of the burnt sugar colouring and optionally add ¼ teaspoon of Polysorbate 80 (a safe food grade solubilizer that is used in all sorts of foods, like ice cream). This heavily caramelized sugar takes on a bitter flavour, which is what we want. You can follow the dark caramel syrup recipe, but go a little further and make it really dark. You can find this at grocery stores and is used to give stews a nice brown colour or you can make your own, it is quite simple. Most people would use glycerin, which works but has some issues, the real alternative is caramel colouring. With alcohol, simply adding these oils and mixing will make a clear homogeneous solution, but we need another solvent to mix them with, and our options are limited.
Make your own non alcoholic spirits how to#
How to Make Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Bitters When I wrote Fix the Pumps, I collected a few to many for my soda fountain experiments. For this recipe, I’ve decided to use some of the essential oils I have on hand. As long as you purchase all-natural, 100% pure ingredients, you will avoid ethanol because some flavour extracts are cut with ethanol, like vanilla. So let’s begin this exercise.Īccess to 100% pure steam distilled, or even CO2 extracted, essential oils are as easy as it has ever been to acquire. So how do we get the oils without using a solvent like alcohol? Distillation is our friend and you don’t even need to own a still.
Simply soaking herbs in water doesn’t extract the flavour oils, and it can also extract undesirable compounds that make the flavour less than pleasant. Oil and water do not mix and that is why non-alcoholic bitters are rare. You’d need to drink 3.55 L (roughly 1 gallon) to get the equivalent of a single 5% abv beer. A 355 ml can of beer at 0.5% equals 1/10th of a standard drink. But as modern times dictate, that isn’t good enough for some people, though clinically 0.5% is insignificant. Legally, non-alcoholic beverages are classified as less than 0.5% ethanol by volume. Camper English on Twitter ( is looking for non-alcoholic bitters so the two go hand-in-hand and this seems like a topic I can deal with.
Dry January has people talking about small amounts of alcohol in non-alcoholic cocktails and whether it is appropriate.
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