Ten years ago I was inclined to agree with you, but most of the cocktail bars and distilleries in the city I’m nearest to have started batching most of their mocktails. At best, they’re $10 juices that get poured from a jug, shaken with some aromatics, and served in a rimmed glass or something of the like. I’ll stick with my soda water and bitters… which somehow still usually runs in the neighborhood of $2-3… Actually, I’ll just stay home.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm only saying this because there's a singular specific bar that I have in my town that is run by one very talented bartender who makes all the drinks herself including the mocktails.

I've seen maybe 2 other places do that, and it's the only time they're any good

She straight up makes virgin ramos gin fizzes and puts in the effort to shake the drink for 4 minutes to get the fizz.