Zero-proof drinks

67 drinks with no alcohol in them. Tap one for the build, the glass and the method.

What's in them

Most are sodas, dressed up: 48 of the 67 start from a soft drink (cola, Dr Pepper, root beer, lemon-lime, orange or ginger), 50 add a flavoring syrup, and 40 finish with cream, coconut cream or milk, the combination often sold as a dirty soda. The Dirty Dr Pepper is one.

The familiar names are here too: Shirley Temple, Roy Rogers, Arnold Palmer, Nojito, Virgin Mule and Thai Iced Tea, plus an Egg Cream, which has neither egg nor cream in it.

What you'll need

Little is made ahead: 60 of the 67 use only things you can buy (soft drinks, juices, cream, fresh fruit and bottled syrups). The other 7 call for something you make first, and the longest of those, Grenadine, takes 45 minutes.

The syrups asked for most are vanilla syrup (14 drinks), coconut syrup (10) and cherry syrup (6). Of the 67, 65 are rated Beginner and 59 are served tall, in a Collins or highball glass.

Which can you make tonight?

Every ingredient in these drinks is one you can tick in My bar. Tick what is in your fridge and pantry, and the app shows which of the 67 you can make now and which are one thing away.

Drink type

67 of 67 recipes

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Orange and pineapple juice in equal parts with a splash of grenadine, over ice. Bright, sweet and alcohol-free.

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Apple Pie Ginger Soda

Apple, cinnamon and ginger. Best in the months you'd want a pie.

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Half tea, half lemonade. Named for a man who ordered it enough times that it stuck.

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Banana, pineapple and coconut syrup blended smooth. A piña colada with the rum left out — or left in, if you want.

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A banana, a peach and orange juice in a blender. Breakfast, in a hurricane glass.

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Birthday Cake Soda

Ridiculous on purpose. The almond is what makes it taste like frosting.

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Black Forest Cola

Firmly a dessert. Treat it as one and it's very good.

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Blackberry Ginger Lime

Ginger beer rather than ale, and no cream. The grown-up end of this list.

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Blackberry Lavender Fizz

No cream on this one. Dairy flattens the lavender straight out.

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Blackberry Pineapple Blast

Dark fruit against pineapple. Odd on paper, good in the glass.

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Blackberry Vanilla Doctor

Darker and less sweet than the cherry version.

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Blueberry Lemon Cream

Blueberry needs the lemon. On its own it goes flat and jammy.

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Cherry Cheesecake Soda

The lemon is what makes it read as cheesecake rather than cherry cola.

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Cherry Lime Rickey

The other half of the classic rickey pair. Sour cherry syrup if you can find it.

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Cherry Vanilla Cola

The flavor every cola already hints at, made explicit.

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Chocolate Root Beer Float Soda

Chocolate and sarsaparilla, which is an old pairing and a good one.

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Chocolate-Covered Cherry Soda

Exactly what it says. No notes.

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Coconut Cherry Doctor

Both classic Dr Pepper add-ins at once, which is less confused than it sounds.

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Coconut Lime Cola

The original dirty soda, near enough. Swig built a chain on this exact combination.

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Cranberry Ginger Fizz

Cranberry juice does the work of a syrup here. Christmas, basically.

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Creamsicle Float

Orange soda and cream. The whole dirty-soda idea in two ingredients.

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Cucumber Cooler

Cool, clean, and faintly savory with a pinch of salt.

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Cucumber Lime Soda

Soda water brings nothing sweet of its own, so the syrup is doing real work. Muddle the cucumber fresh.

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Dirty Dr Pepper

The one that started the whole Utah soda-shop thing. Coconut and lime cut the prune note.

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No egg and no cream: chocolate syrup, milk and soda water, the New York soda-fountain drink. The soda is what raises the foam.

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Ginger & Honey Fizz

Your own honey-ginger syrup does all the work here. Warm and sharp.

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Green Apple Lime

Sharp and very green. Skip the cream on this one.

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Honey Lavender Cream Soda

Go very light on the lavender. A quarter ounce is already plenty.

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Horchata Cream Soda

Cinnamon, cream and vanilla soda lands remarkably close to horchata.

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Lime, soda, a little sugar. The non-alcoholic descendant of the gin rickey, and a Prohibition survivor.

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Lychee Coconut Fizz

Floral and light. Lychee is worth seeking out for this one alone.

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Mango Orange Cream

Coconut cream rather than dairy, because mango and milk can turn chalky.

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Maple Vanilla Root Beer

Use real maple, and go light. It'll bully the root beer if you let it.

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Everything a mojito does except the rum, and it holds up better than you'd expect.

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Orange Dream Soda

A creamsicle you drink through a straw.

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Peach Cobbler Soda

The cinnamon on top is the whole difference between this and a peach soda.

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Peach Ginger Cream

Ginger keeps the peach from going cloying.

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Peach Mango Citrus

Two stone fruits and a citrus soda, which is more balanced than it reads.

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Peach Ring Soda

Tastes like the sweets. That is entirely the point.

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Pear Vanilla Ginger

Pear is quiet, so let the vanilla and ginger carry it.

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Pineapple Coconut Soda

A piña colada with the rum taken out and the fizz put in.

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Pineapple Orange Whip

The theme-park frozen drink, in a glass, in about a minute.

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Raspberry Coconut Citrus

Raspberry and coconut is the combination the soda shops sell most after the original.

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Raspberry Cream Doctor

Raspberry and Dr Pepper is the pairing the soda shops reach for most after coconut.

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Raspberry Lime Cola

Sharper than most dirty sodas, and the one to make if cream isn't your thing.

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Raspberry Lime Rickey

A soda-fountain drink from the 1880s, and still the best argument for syrup and soda water.

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Cola with grenadine in it and a cherry on top. The Shirley Temple's cola half, and the one children actually ask for.

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Salted Caramel Cola

The salt is doing real work here. Without it the caramel just reads as sweet.

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Salted Caramel Root Beer

Root beer already tastes faintly of caramel. This leans into it.

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Tomato, orange, lime and hot sauce, mixed by the jug. Not a cocktail — it is what you drink after the tequila.

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The first cocktail most people ever drink. Real grenadine makes it worth revisiting.

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Vinegar-based shrubs give a non-alcoholic drink the backbone booze usually provides.

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Spiced Apple Doctor

Autumn in a glass. Best from about September to November.

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Apple and cranberry under ginger beer. Sharp enough that nobody asks what is in it.

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Strawberry Coconut Cream

Strawberries and coconut, which works far better over soda than it has any right to.

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Strawberry Creamsicle Float

The creamsicle with a berry underneath it.

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Strawberry Lemonade Soda

Add cream and it becomes strawberries and cream. Both versions are right.

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Thai tea mix stirred into boiling water with sweetened condensed milk, then poured over ice. Makes two tall glasses.

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Toasted Coconut Cola

Coconut twice over, once fresh and once toasted.

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Toasted Marshmallow Root Beer

Campfire adjacent, and very hard to stop drinking.

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Banana, strawberry, pineapple and coconut, blended and topped with cream. Thick enough to need a spoon at the end.

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Tropical Sunrise

Pour the grenadine last and don't stir it. That's where the sunrise comes from.

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Vanilla Chai Root Beer

Chai syrup carries the spice without brewing anything.

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Vanilla Root Beer Cream

A root beer float without the washing up.

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Ginger beer has enough bite to carry a drink alone. Lean into it.

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Watermelon Lime Soda

Good without cream, better with a splash of coconut cream if it's very hot.

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Zero-Proof Spritz

Bitterness is what makes a spritz feel grown-up, and bitterness doesn't need alcohol.