Every drink in this book works both ways: with the alcohol, or without it. Nobody gets stuck with sad juice. It starts before the liquor: mango chopped while the sun is still low, a blender humming, the first cold glass of the day sweating in your hand. Beach Bar at Home runs on that rhythm. One hundred drinks arranged the way a real beach bar works, by time of day and by what you are craving at that hour, and it pours all twelve months. A blender full of mango is a four-minute vacation in January just as much as in July.
What this book does that most cocktail books skip:
- A one-line swap on every single recipe: Make It a Mocktail on every cocktail, Make It a Cocktail on every mocktail. 100 recipes, 200 ways to pour
- 60 of the 100 are zero-proof by design: three of the five chapters never touch alcohol at all
- Full nutrition on every glass: calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, sugar, and sodium. 70 drinks land under 200 calories, 26 under 100
- Dietary badges on all 100: 96 gluten-free, 91 nut-free, 69 dairy-free, 68 vegan, 34 with no added sugar, plus protein-forward and fiber-forward picks
- A real photo for every single drink
- A complete home bar toolkit built in: 8 homemade syrups, 5 ice techniques including clear and flower cubes, 3 rimming methods, batch math for parties of 6, 10, or 20, and a seasonal fruit calendar
- A Drinks by Occasion index that maps a pour to every month: a New Year's toast, a Valentine's pour for two, a red-white-and-blue Fourth of July, an inky Halloween, a red-and-green Christmas
- An honest hundred, made by humans: every drink developed, mixed, and tasted by real people. No AI recipes, no filler
Inside the five chapters, five times of day:
- Sunrise Shift: Mango Pineapple Sunrise Smoothie, Strawberry Banana Breeze, Watermelon Mint Refresher
- Ice Cream Drinks: Key Lime Pie Milkshake, Frozen Tiramisu Delight, Cherry Cola Ice Cream Float
- Poolside Deck: Virgin Mojito Bliss, Sparkling Rosemary Citrus, and crafted zero-proof refreshers
- Golden Hour: Peach Bellini Breeze, Rosé Berry Spritz, Sparkling Elderflower Lemonade
- Sunset Cocktails: Classic Mai Tai, Passionfruit Hurricane, Mango Jalapeño Margarita
Who will love this book:
- The host pouring for drinkers and non-drinkers at the same table, without making two menus
- The sober-curious and everyone doing Dry January: 60 full recipes, not lesser versions
- The pregnant guest and the designated driver, handed something worth holding
- Families: the smoothie, float, and shake chapters are kid-friendly by design
- Anyone eating lighter, including alongside a GLP-1 medication: the badges mark the lighter pours. Drinks, not medicine
- The home bartender without a bartending degree: syrups, ice, and batch math from scratch
One bar, all year long.
Citrus and pomegranate carry the winter holidays, berries and stone fruit own the summer, apples and pears warm the fall. The fruit rotates, the feeling never goes out of season. No fads, no trends that age out by next summer.
A gift they will actually use.
For the friend who just got a blender, the couple with the new patio, the host of every Fourth of July. Full color, with photography that earns its place on the bar cart.
Part of The Sipping Hour collection by Emily Granton.
Shake the ice. Salt the rim. Pour for someone you love. The bar is open. It always was.
