Alcohol-Free Pineapple Picante Smash

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This widely popular crowd-pleaser is one of the four drinks you’ll get to make on our Autumn/Winter seasonal cocktail masterclasses. It also makes for a brilliant centrepiece drink for any private event.

Use the navigation bar on the right to check out the rest of the drinks we teach on our seasonal cocktail masterclasses – we design our classes to cover as wide a range as possible whilst using as many seasonal ingredients as we can to maximise flavour and watch our carbon footprint simultaneously. You can also use the tick boxes to have a browse of every single Autumn cocktail on our list if you wanted to try your hand at home using ingredients you’ll most likely find lying around your house.

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Hi guys, Matilde here. I’m at TT Liquor, Mixology’s flagship venue in Shoreditch. Today, we’re going to show you how to make a non-alcoholic Pineapple Picante Smash. One of the drinks created for our cocktail making classes. We’ve swapped out the tequila for Seedlip Spice, which really complements the pineapple and chilli flavours in the drink. This one packs a punch. The ingredients are in the description below, and here’s Kay to show you how to make it.

Hi, guys. It’s Kay back here at TT Liquor. Today I’m going to be showing you how to make an alcohol free version of our Pineapple Picante smash. This is a really nice built drink. Usually we use tequila, but obviously this one is going to be alcohol free.

As it’s a built drink, I’m going to be making it in the same glass I’m serving in which is this lovely little julep tin. Now, first things going into my julep tin are going to be some fresh fruit. First of those are going to be some pineapple chunks. I’ve got some here that I’ve cut already. If you’re making this at home, you can absolutely just use tinned pineapple chunks as well. I want maybe about four or five of these pineapple chunks in the bottom of my glass.

So I’m going to grab a chilli. I’m just going to roll it between my hands to loosen up the seeds a little bit, so that when I cut the top off, I can just give it a little shake over the bin and get rid of all of those [seeds].

Now, we don’t want this too hot. So I’m just going to do two little slices of my chilli. Beautiful.

Got my lime here. I’m just going to cut it down into little quarter wedges and I’ll pop one of those in. I’m going to grab my muddler and use that to give them all a good squish. So I’ll cover the top with my hand to stop anything flying out. Get the muddler in there, break the chilli up a little bit and get it mixed around with those other ingredients.

Now, this is a non-alcoholic version of this cocktail. So in place of the usual tequila, we’ve got this lovely Seedlip Spice. We want 50ml of our Seedlip.

Right next thing going in here for some extra pineapple flavour is going to be some pineapple juice. Give this a little shake before I open it. And I want the same amount of pineapple as I had of my Seedlip, so 50ml again. Perfect.

Now, the final ingredient going into this cocktail, just to give us a little bit of sweetness, is going to be some sugar syrup. Now we don’t need too much of this, I just want 20ml of my sugar syrup. There we go.

The last thing to add to this is some crushed ice. Now, I’m not going to fill the cup all the way up. I’m going to leave a little bit of space at the top, so I’ve got room to stir my cocktail. I’m going to grab my bar spoon, cover the top of the cup with my hand again to stop anything flying out. Get the spoon in there and give this a real good mix.

So I’ve given that a stir for about 10 seconds, a lot of that crushed ice has melted down, diluted the cocktail and lengthened it out. To finish this off, I’m going to give it a nice crown of crushed ice. I’m going to take a big old scoop of crushed ice, pile it on top of the drink. And just use my hand to form it into a dome. That’s going to act as an insulator, and stop the ice that’s underneath from melting any further, and making our drink any more watery than it already is.

Now, for a garnish, I’ve got a pineapple leaf. I’ll just pop that in there on the edge. And finally, this is in this cold metal tin. It’s not going to be the most comfortable thing to hold on to. So to make it a little bit more pleasant, I’m going to give it a little jacket. I’m going to take one of my bar napkins, just fold it in half along the diagonal to make a triangle. And then I’ll take each of these two outer corners, dip them in a little bit of water so that the wet corners stick to the outside of that cold metal tin, and give him a little cape. 

So there we have it. That is our alcohol free Pineapple Picante Smash, ready to drink.