Ginger No-jito

The Ginger No-jito is an alcohol-free drink: 4 ingredients, built in the glass and served in a collins. That makes 174 ml in the glass: a middling measure.

Ingredients

• 22.5 mlfresh lime juice
• 15 mlrich sugar syrup
• 9 mlmint
• 105 mlginger beer

Method

1. Pour the lime and syrup into the glass and half fill with crushed ice.
2. Add the mint and churn.
3. Fill with more crushed ice, top with ginger beer and churn again.

Garnish: Garnish with mint sprigs.

What it tastes like

bitter → sweet

Sweetness shows without covering: it comes from ginger beer, with 1.0 out of 10 of bitterness holding it back.

round → sour

Citrus shows, but this is no sour: 65th of 186, and it comes from fresh lime juice.

light → strong

No alcohol to speak of: 174 ml in the glass and under one degree, so it sits at the bottom of the axis with the other alcohol-free drinks.

It is the most bitter of the group around it: 1.0 out of 10.

Five that come close

• Shirley TempleWith ginger ale in place of ginger beer and longer by 36 ml.
• CinderellaMore bitter and with soda water in place of ginger beer.
• Pimm's Cup5 degrees stronger and with ginger ale in place of ginger beer.
• Bora Bora BrewSweeter and with ginger ale in place of ginger beer.
• Bloody OrangeRounder and with fresh orange juice in place of ginger beer.

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Recipe source: Difford's Guide · checked on 3 November 2026