Festive Flavors: Holiday Mocktails with Mountain Valley Sparkling Flavored Water

Holiday mocktail recipes, like many mocktail recipes, can feel intimidating. All too often these recipes call for hard-to-find ingredients and complicated infusions; as if adding dozens of extra steps to a recipe will compensate for the resulting drink’s lack of booze. 

While fancy, artisanal beverages are certainly fun, during the holiday season — when there is barely enough time to breathe, let alone zest the rind of a Buddha’s hand for a month-long infusion into turbinado-based simple syrup — one’s priorities are often focused elsewhere. 

At Mountain Valley Spring Water, our favorite holiday mocktail recipes take inspiration from our favorite cocktail recipes: They’re fun, fizzy, fantastically easy, and even more fantastic to sip. The only difference is that these mocktails don’t need alcohol to be a good time. The following mocktail recipes make up for their lack of booze with the simple, bubbly deliciousness that is Mountain Valley’s lineup of Sparkling Essence waters.

Whether it’s our Sparkling Key Lime Twist, Sparkling Blackberry Pomegranate or Sparkling White Peach, our fizz-filled waters offer millions of festive bubbles and loads of juicy flavor, all with zero calories, zero sugars and zero sweeteners. 
Mountain Valley’s Sparkling Essence lineup of flavored waters is award-winningly delicious, and these sparklers are the perfect way to make any holiday mocktail shine. 

The perfect holiday mocktail: Three recipes

Sparkling Apple-Berry Cider with Pomegranate and Thyme

Imbued with classic holiday colors, this mocktail looks lovely in a pitcher and could even be the centerpiece of your holiday bar or table. 

Ingredients

• 1 ounce apple cider
• Juice of 1 small lemon wedge
• Ice
• 7 ounces Mountain Valley Sparkling Blackberry Pomegranate
• 2 to 4 thin slices of apple
• 1 to 2 sprigs of thyme
• 1 spoonful of pomegranate seeds

• Add apple cider and lemon juice to a pint glass
• Top with ice and Mountain Valley Sparkling Blackberry Pomegranate; add apple slices and garnish with thyme and pomegranate seeds, enjoy

• 1 wedge of lime plus 1 thin slice for garnish
• 4 to 6 mint leaves, plus extra for garnish
• 1 tablespoon mango jam or puree
• 8 ounces Mountain Valley Sparkling Key Lime Twist
• Ice

• In a pint glass, muddle the lime and mint
• Add ice and mango jam
• Add Mountain Valley Sparkling Key Lime Twist, stir, garnish with more mint leaves and lime slice, enjoy

Sparkling Orange Blueberry Basil with a Kiss of White Peach

This bubbly mocktail is a great way to put those classic orange stocking stuffers to delicious use. 

Ingredients

• 10 to 15 blueberries
• 3 to 4 leaves of basil
• Ice
• 2 thin, circular slices of orange
• 8 ounces Mountain Valley Sparkling White Peach

Directions

• Add blueberries and basil to a pint glass and muddle until lightly mashed
• Top with ice and Mountain Valley Sparkling White Peach; place orange slices between the ice and the walls of the glass, and enjoy

Want to create your own mocktail recipes with your favorite festive flavors this holiday season? Our foolproof formula for developing your own mocktails can be found here and to make sure you're set for the holidays, find out how to get Mountain Valley delivered directly to your door here.