Try these three tea-infused, sweet mocktails for Dry January

Dry January is in full swing for many looking to take a break from alcohol, but what if there was a way to still enjoy a tasty and flavorful mixed drink?

The Dry January challenge has been around for years, where one sits the booze bottle down to stay sober for the first month of the year. Staying alcohol-free for a month has shown improved concentration and sleep patterns, lower cholesterol, glucose levels and blood pressure, plus aid in weight loss.

But for those looking to simulate the feeling of a cold adult beverage in their hand, what is there to do? Enter mocktails or non-alcohol mixed drinks that use some of the same ingredients, but none of the alcohol.

Tea company iLola is here to help with a collection of recipes using their loose-leaf disc shaped tea bag. The company’s tea discs are captured in a cellulose binding that dissolves in hot water for a sustainable option.

Here’s a few mocktail recipes to try for your Dry January:

Passion fruit Mint

• 1 Moroccan mint tea disc

• 1/2 cup sparking water

• 1/2 a passion fruit

• Sprig of fresh mint

• Ice

Steep the tea disc in half a cup of boiling water, let it cool and strain. Muddle passion fruit and mint in cocktail shaker. Add ice and tea to shaker, shake and strain unto a glass with fresh ice. Top with sparking water.

Moscow Mule

• 1 Lemon ginger tulsi tea disc
• Ginger beer
• 4 mint leaves
• 2 lime slices

Steep the tea disc in half a cup of boiling water, let cool and strain. Pour tea into glass with mint leaves and lime and muddle. Add ice and top drink with ginger beer.

Blueberry Bliss

• 1 blueberry peony tea disc
• 1 oz. blueberry syrup
• Sparkling water
• 2 orange slices
• Ice

Steep tea disc in half a cup of boiling water, let cool and strain. Pour tea into glass and mix with blueberry syrup. Add fresh ice, top with sparking water and squeeze in one orange slice. Garnish with other orange slice and drink up.

This story was originally published January 12, 2023 at 2:32 PM with the headline "Try these three tea-infused, sweet mocktails for Dry January."

Brayden Garcia

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Brayden Garcia is a service journalism reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He is part of a team of local journalists who answer reader questions and write about life in North Texas. Brayden mainly writes about weather and all things Taylor Sheridan-related.