An ice-cold ‘bev’ can make anything better, but if you’re cutting back on alcohol, you might feel like you’re missing out. Luckily, starting a meal with an appe-tini-tizer or winding down with a little somethin’-somethin’ doesn’t have to come without a buzz. With SIPS hemp beverages, you can make any drink a THC-infused delight.

We’ve put together 5 low-dose THC mocktails that are easy to make, so any hour can be happy hour!

Mary Jane Mojito

The mojito is a classic drink that’s ripe for a new twist. Add our SIPS microdose drinks to this non-alcoholic version, and you’ll be feeling minty fresh in no time.

Serves: 2

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup loosely packed fresh mint leaves plus 2 sprigs, for serving
• 3 limes, 1 quartered, 2 juiced (about 1/4 cup)
• 3 ounces nonalcoholic rum, such as Lyre’s White Cane Spirit (optional)
• 2 tablespoons light agave syrup
• 2 cups ice
• 1/2 cup seltzer or club soda
• SIPS 10 mg mixer
  

Directions

1. Add the mint leaves and lime quarters to a cocktail shaker and muddle with a muddler or the handle of a wooden spoon until the mint has released its oils, about 20 seconds. 
2. Add the lime juice, nonalcoholic rum (optional), agave, SIPS, and ice and shake vigorously until the strainer starts to develop a frost on the outside, about 30 seconds. 
3. Divide the mixture into two glasses, then fill them with seltzer and serve with a fresh sprig of mint.

Apple Cider Sour Diesel

Apple cider doesn’t have to be saved for the fall. With flavors this bold and SIPS weed drinks to round out the experience, you’ll want to spend every day in the orchard.

Serves: 1

Ingredients

• 1 small sugar cube
• 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 2 ounces apple cider
• 2 ounces cranberry-raspberry flavor seltzer
• 1 spherical piece cocktail ice (if available)
• 1 whole apple chip
• One 2- to 3-inch piece orange peel
• SIPS 5 mg mixer

Directions

1. Add the sugar cube, lemon juice, apple cider, SIPS, and seltzer to a 6- to 8-ounce Old Fashion glass. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Stop here if you don’t feel like getting fancy.
2. Drop in the ice cube sphere and apple chip. 
3. Flame the orange peel by simultaneously bending the peel, skin-side out, and holding a match or lighter near the peel to ignite the spraying orange oil. 
4. Rub the peel around the rim of the glass before dropping it in the drink.

Nug-roni

The negroni is a sophisticated drink, and the nug-roni is for sophisticated smugglers. The social lift of SIPS THC beverages pairs perfectly with the social tradition of toasting to your crew. “There are good ships, and wood ships, and ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.”

Serves: 1

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces nonalcoholic gin
• 1 ounce nonalcoholic aperitivo
• 1 ounce nonalcoholic vermouth
• 1/4 ounce grenadine
• 1/2 ounce tonic water
• Orange peel, for serving
• SIPS 5 mg mixer

Directions

1. Stir the nonalcoholic gin, aperitivo, vermouth, SIPS, and grenadine in a shaker with ice until chilled. 
2. Strain into an old-fashioned glass and add 1 large ice cube. 
3. Pour over the tonic and garnish with an orange peel.

Tea-HC Tini

Tea + THC = an afternoon well spent. Delight your senses with a sip of SIPS hemp beverage in your tea-tini, and feel the sunshine from the inside out.

Serves: 1-2

Ingredients

• Ice
• 6 ounces unsweetened iced tea
• 3 ounces (1/2 cup) Lemon Simple Syrup, recipe follows
• 1 strip lemon zest, cut with a vegetable peeler
• Lemon simple syrup
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 lemon, juiced
• SIPS 10 mg mixer

Directions

1. Fill a cocktail shaker with a handful of ice. Add the tea, SIPS, and the lemon simple syrup, and shake it like a polaroid picture. Pour into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with the lemon strip.
2. To make the lemon simple syrup, combine the sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer for about 10 minutes. Let cool, then stir in the lemon juice. Use immediately or store, covered, in the refrigerator.

Man-ganja Lime Spritzer

Turn your happy hour into a tropical staycation. Mango and lime brings the flavor, and SIPS brings the fun.

Serves: 2

Ingredients

• 4 ounces mango juice, cold
• 2 ounces lime juice (about 2 limes) 
• 1 bottle ginger beer, cold 
• 2 lime wheels 
• 2 mango wedges
• SIPS 10 mg mixer
  

Directions

1. Mix the mango juice, lime juice, and SIPS, then divide between two glasses over ice. 
2. Top off with ginger beer. Add a lime wheel and a mango spear for garnish.

It’s High Time You Add SIPS To Your Happy Hour

If you’re sober or just taking a booze break, you can still catch a buzz with SIPS hemp-infused beverages. Mocktails can be an easy way to keep an eye on your health and say goodbye to hangovers.

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