Keep Sober Cocktail
1/8 Grenadine. (Small Hand Foods Grenadine)
1/8 Sirop-de-Citron (Sirop-de-Citron, homemade)
3/4 Tonic. (Clayton’s Kola Tonic)
Serve in long glass and fill with siphon soda.
This one isn’t bad either, ending up tasting rather like a Cherry-Coke, though it wouldn’t be awful to include a little citrus.
Another interesting experiment I tried was mixing in Trader Tiki’s Don’s Mix, instead of the Grenadine. You know, you have to support your friends. Anyway, I found that to be a quite interesting variation, a little spice and a little citric tang, gave this a bit more of a tropical theme and made it a pretty decent non-alcoholic cocktail.
Now if I could only convince Blair from Trader Tiki or Jennifer from Small Hand Foods to make a Kola Tonic, so I don’t have to order it from Barbados next time!
I mean, if you have to Keep Sober, it doesn’t mean you have to suffer.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the drinks in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, the, uh, Sauterne Cup.
If I knew where to get my hands on a bottle of Clayton’s without spending a fortune, I’d start working on developing a kola tonic, as I’ve had requests up in Seattle for it. How did you manage to get yours? All my searches have either been fruitless or far too expensive.
I got it a while back from an online retailer that seems to have gone out of business.
I can’t find anywhere in the US, at the moment, that is carrying it.
There are a couple US distributors listed on the Clayton’s website: Clayton’s Kola Tonic
But none of them list the product in their online inventory.
It does appear they have made a bit of a push to make themselves available in the UK and Europe. Hard to say if this bodes well for anything in the US, but I have been talking about the idea of making something similar with Small Hand Foods.