5 Fun Mocktails to Make for Your Senior Community Residents
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Though beer and wine carts are fun and easy, why not up the fun—and beat hydration in the meantime—with some fancy mocktails your senior community residents will love.
These are some of the best non-alcoholic drink options because:
All 5 of them are a mix and match of the SAME 5 ingredients. That’s right: you only have to buy 5 items to have 5 different fun mocktails for your senior residents to enjoy.
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The elderly are especially vulnerable to the effects of dehydration, due to:
Less overall body fluid
Reduced thirst response
Decreased kidney function
Diuretic medications
Underlying health conditions
Memory challenges
So, let’s start mixing up some easy, fun, mocktails for our seniors!
5 Easy Mocktail Recipes for Senior Community Centers
You get FIVE different mocktail recipes from only FIVE different ingredients: what could be easier?! You can make these mocktails for a Friday night happy hour, or pair them with theme nights at your senior community. Whatever the event, have fun while you make these, and don’t forget to taste test your creations!
The Mocktail Drinks Your Seniors Will Love
Gimlet
Daiquiri
Moscow Mule
Mojito
Dark N’ Stormy
What you need to make the best senior-friendly mocktails:
Mocktail Supplies:
Large mixing bowl
Large spoon
Plastic cups
Ice (A great way to cool the drinks, and add in some extra water).
Mocktail Ingredients:
Sparkling water (your “alcohol”). Limes are used in each of these drinks, so lime-flavored sparkling water is a great option here.
Mint
Limes/lime juice
Sugar, or sugar substitute. If you’re using a sugar substitute, feel free to go sweeter than what the recipes call for.
Non-alcoholic ginger beer
The Mocktail Recipes
Gimlet
Ingredients:
Tonic water
Lime juice and wedges
Sparkling water
Directions:
Mix two parts tonic to one part sparkling water (the hydrating “gin” of the drink!)
Add lime juice from fresh limes or bottled lime juice, to taste. Gimlets generally emphasize the lime, so don’t be afraid to get citrusy!
Distribute the drink into your plastic cups filled with ice, and add a lime wedge as a garnish to each!
Theme night to pair this with: Great Gatsby
Moscow Mule
Ingredients:
Lime juice
Ginger beer
Sugar
Sparkling water
Mint sprigs
Directions:
Combine lime juice and sparkling water, ¼ cup of juice per liter or water.
Add 1 tablespoon of sugar, and mix until it dissolves into the lime and water combination.
Add the non-alcoholic ginger beer, 2 liters for every 1 liter of water.
Pour into glasses filled with ice (no, they don't have to be copper) and garnish with mint.
Theme night: It’s the 1940’s! Fun fact: moscow mules were invented in the 1940’s to encourage Smirnoff sales (at that point, vodka was not a popular alcohol of choice).
Mojito
Ingredients:
Lime juice and wedges
Sugar
Sparkling water
Mint
Directions:
Add lime juice to the mixing bowl, 2 tablespoons for every 1 liter of water. Tear mint leaves as you add to the lime juice, and mix together.
Add sparkling water, and then dissolve sugar into the mix, about 2 tablespoons of sugar for every liter of water. Or, feel free to add more sweetness if you’re using a sugar substitute.
Mix all together.
Pour into glasses filled with ice, and add more mint and lime as garnish!
Theme Night: Mexican fiesta! Pair with tacos or some chips and salsa.
Dark n’ Stormy
Ingredients:
Non-alcoholic ginger beer
Sparkling water
Lime
Directions:
Mix 1 parts sparkling water with 1 part ginger beer.
Pour into cups filled with ice, and garnish with lime.
Theme nights: Pirate’s Ship, or Desert Island
Daiquiris
Ingredients:
Lime juice
Sugar
Sparkling water
Optional: fruits or other fruit juices
Directions:
Dissolve sugar in sparkling water, about ¼ cup of sugar for every liter of water. Note, as these mocktails are supposed to be hydrating, we want to keep sugar at the minimum, so a sugar substitute would work well here.
Add lime juice, about ½ cup per liter of water.
Distribute into glasses filled with ice and serve!