Cucumber Gin and Tonic

Cucumber is the whole idea. Free AF builds an alcohol-free gin and tonic and then leans into the English garden garnish rather than the juniper, so it comes out clean and mildly sweet instead of sharply botanical. If most non-alcoholic gins strike you as too aggressive, this is the friendlier direction. The brand is a New Zealand operation that ships to the US and UK, and each can carries Afterglow, its plant-based warming ingredient. Serve it very cold in a balloon glass packed with ice. A ribbon of cucumber and a sprig of rosemary is the suggested finish and it genuinely changes the drink, since so much of a G and T arrives through the nose. It holds up as an all afternoon option rather than a one glass novelty.