Can You Make It Virgin?

Every pool bartender hears it a hundred times a shift: "Can you make it virgin?"

The answer is yes, and it should still taste like a real drink. Piña coladas, mojitos, island punches, spritzes and warm mugs, all built at zero proof with the same care a resort bartender gives the real thing.

It starts with how to build a drink that isn't juice, then walks through a full resort-style list: spritz and fizz, shaken and sour, island and tiki, frozen and blended, coffee, tea and bitter, warm drinks, and pitchers and punch bowls.

What's inside

• How to build a drink that isn't juice: what a drink needs, base ratios, and how to fix it in the glass
• The Signature Two: a virgin piña colada and a virgin mojito, plus a syrup shelf you can batch
• Recipe chapters covering spritz and fizz, shaken and sour, island and tiki, frozen and blended, coffee, tea and bitter, warm drinks, and pitchers and punch bowls
• Swap tables for hard-to-find bottles, batch math for a crowd, and indexes by flavor, base ingredient and occasion

Also on the bookshelf: Can You Make It Strong?, an honest (and funny) guide to getting treated better at the bar.

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Published by Tideline Press, Hospitality Stack’s sister imprint.