Do you know how succulents greet each other? They look at each other, and go “Aloe!” Not only is Aloe vera very funny, but it also has a lot of other benefits. From helping with digestive and oral health, glowing skin, and being a great mixer for your cocktails when turned into juice, aloe vera can do it all! So read on to find a list of aloe vera cocktails that can help you meet your “healthy drinking” promises.
7 Aloe Vera Cocktails To Try Out
- Annie Oakley
- Not Tested On Animals
- Golden Geisha
- Huli Pau!
- Aloe Vera Margarita
- Aloe, Cucumber, And Melon Cooler
- The Aloe-Ha
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley is a fresh mix of sweet, and spicy flavors, thanks to sake and thyme. The aloe liqueur Chareau introduces zesty notes of lemon and fruity notes of Honeydew melons. Add the bright red color from the dried hibiscus, and you have a drink that’s striking to the eyes and the taste buds alike.
Ingredients
- 1 oz. of dry sake
- 0.75 oz. of Chareau aloe liqueur
- 2 oz. of hibiscus-thyme shrub
- Thyme sprigs to garnish
To make the hibiscus-thyme shrub, follow the steps below:
- Add 1 cup white sugar and 1 cup white wine vinegar into a saucepan, and stir over low heat until the sugar is dissolved.
- Add 1/2 cup dried hibiscus flowers, mix well, and add 24 thyme sprigs.
- Remove the mixture from the heat and let cool. Then chill the syrup overnight.
- Once chilled, strain out solids, and transfer the syrup to glass syrup bottles.
How To Make Annie Oakley Cocktail
- Add the sake, aloe liqueur, and hibiscus-thyme shrub into a mixing glass with ice and stir well until chilled.
- Strain the mixture into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
- Garnish with a thyme sprig.
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Not Tested On Animals
PETA would love this drink, or at least it would make a big song and dance about it on social media to stake its “pro-animal” nature. Organizational failures aside, the Not Tested On Animals is a cocktail with gin and ginger beer. Not only is that a spicy combo, but one more instance of “gin” and we would have an “Aladdin and the magic lamp” scenario in our hands! (With three gins there’d be nine wishes, right? Or is there a “three wishes per person” limit?) The aloe vera and tarragon add light bitter notes to the drink, balanced by the beer and saline tincture.
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz. of gin
- 2 oz. of aloe vera and white grape juice
- 0.5 oz. of tarragon syrup
- 1 dash saline tincture (1:1 ratio of salt to water)
- Ginger beer, to top
- Orange twist for garnish
To make the tarragon syrup, follow the steps below:
- Add equal amounts of sugar and water into a saucepan.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until sugar is dissolved.
- Remove the simple syrup from the heat, add 12 tarragon leaves, and let steep for 20 minutes or until the desired flavor is reached.
If refrigerated in an airtight container, the syrup will last for up to two weeks.
How To Make Not Tested On Animals Cocktail
- Add the gin, aloe vera and white grape juice, tarragon syrup, and saline tincture into a shaker with ice, and shake well until chilled.
- Pour the mixture into a highball glass over fresh ice.
- Add the ginger beer to fill the rest of the glass and stir gently.
- Garnish with an orange twist.
Golden Geisha
Take a trip to Japan’s feudal days as you take a sip of this glimmering drink. The Golden Geisha takes the bitter but fresh flavors of aloe vera and combines them with the sweetness of apples, the tanginess of lemons, the tartness of raspberries, and the strength of vodka. The result is a cocktail that is visually stunning and tastes vibrant.
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz. of vodka
- 0.75 oz. of aloe vera juice
- 0.67 oz. of apple juice
- 0.33 oz. of freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 8 raspberries
- Gold flakes to garnish
How To Make Golden Geisha Cocktail
- Add all the ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake well until chilled.
- Double-strain the mixture into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Garnish with the gold flakes.
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Huli Pau!
Named after the Hawaiian equivalent of “Cheers!”, the Huli Pau! is an elevated Piña Colada with the added flavors from aloe vera and tarragon. The peanut oil adds a rich depth to the flavors, tying all the ingredients together into a drink that is well deserving of its name.
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz. of rum
- 1 oz. of cream of coconut
- 1 oz. of aloe juice
- 4 oz. of pineapple wedges
- 10 mint leaves
- 10 tarragon leaves
- 0.5 tsp. peanut oil
- Mint sprigs and butterfly pea powder to garnish
How To Make Huli Pau! Cocktail
- Add all the ingredients into a blender with 10 ounces of crushed ice and blend for 10 seconds.
- Pour the mixture into a Hurricane glass. Optionally, you can tie a mini lei (a flower garland) around the body of the glass to make it “bonita”!
- Add a mint sprig and a few shakes of butterfly pea powder to garnish and serve with a straw.
Aloe Vera Margarita
We couldn’t just talk cocktails and forget about the Margarita! The Aloe Vera Margarita is like a “buy one get one free” of succulents! With the agave in the tequila running the show along with its cousin aloe vera, you have a Margarita with a twist that you won’t soon forget.
Ingredients
- 2.5 oz. of aloe vera juice
- 2 oz. of 100% agave tequila
- 1.5 oz. of lime juice
- 1 tbsp. of honey syrup
- Sea salt for rimming
How To Make Aloe Vera Margarita Cocktail
- Dampen the rim of a margarita glass with lime juice and dip the rim in a plate of sea salt to prepare the glass.
- Add the aloe vera juice, tequila, lime juice, and honey syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well until chilled.
- Strain the mixture into the salt-rimmed glass filled with fresh ice.
Aloe, Cucumber, And Melon Cooler
Just like cucumbers, aloe vera is associated with a refreshing, cooling, and mild taste. So the next time you’re looking to take a chill pill on a summer day, but are bored with cucumbers and melon, don’t ditch them. Add some aloe vera to the mix, and you have a new cool flavor for you to explore! The Aloe, Cucumber, And Melon Cooler also has fruits added to it, so you can shoo away the naysayers who claim “drinking isn’t healthy”. Or better yet, make them a glass too, and watch their coils unwind!
Ingredients
- 1.25 oz. of London dry gin
- 0.75 oz. of aloe melon syrup
- 0.5 oz. of freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 5 cucumber wheels
- 3 cubes of Honeydew melon
- 1 dash of absinthe to rinse the glass
- 2 oz. of soda water
To make the aloe melon syrup, follow the steps below:
- Add one tablespoon of water, chunks from a two-inch piece of aloe, and 1.5 cups of cubed Honeydew melon to a medium-sized saucepan over medium-high heat. Allow the ingredients to simmer and break down slightly.
- While the aloe and melon simmer, bring a pot of water to near boiling. Once near boiling, add the water, sugar, and simmered aloe and melon into a blender and blend well.
- Strain the mixture through a fine mesh strainer, and allow it to reach room temperature before storing in the fridge. The syrup can be refrigerated for up to 1 week.
How To Make Aloe, Cucumber, And Melon Cooler Cocktail
- Rinse a pilsner glass with absinthe and set aside for later.
- Muddle cucumber and melon to a pulp in a shaker and fill it with ice.
- Fill the shaker with the gin, aloe melon syrup, and lemon juice, and shake well until chilled.
- Fill the prepared pilsner glass with crushed ice and strain the mixture in.
- Top the rest of the glass with soda water.
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The Aloe-Ha
If you’re someone who rolled their eyes at the opening line of this blog, we have another Hawaiian addition to the list, which does an even better job at puns, the Aloe-Ha. The cocktail heightens the freshness of the citrusy triple sec by adding coconut water, pineapple juice, and aloe vera to the mix. Garnished with pineapple leaves, the Aloe-Ha is a reminder that not all thorns are unpleasant ones.
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz. of light rum
- 0.75 oz. of triple sec
- 2 oz. of aloe vera juice
- 1 oz. of coconut water
- 0.75 oz. of orange juice
- 0.75 oz. of pineapple juice
- The juice of 1 fresh lemon
- Pineapple leaves to garnish
How To Make Aloe-Ha Cocktail
- Add all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake well until chilled.
- Strain the mixture into a Collins Glass, filled with crushed or pellet ice.
- Add fresh pineapple leaves to garnish.
Summing Up
From haircare to skincare and first-aid for burns, there are many accolades the aloe vera earns. Apart from these healthy uses, aloe vera is also a lesser-known and unexplored cocktail addition. So the next time you feel like the old mixes are getting boring for you and need to be freshened up, an aloe vera cocktail might just be what livens up your drinking experience.
FAQs
What Alcohol Goes Well With Aloe Vera?
Aloe vera can have a varied range of flavors, going from mostly neutral to extremely bitter. Spirits with strong flavors like rum, tequila, and gin work best with the taste of aloe vera.
What Pairs Well With Aloe Vera?
Citrus fruits, tart and sweet berries, and fruits with particularly strong taste pair best with aloe vera and its bitter taste.
What Can Aloe Be Mixed With?
Aloe vera is a succulent with many benefits. These benefits can be derived directly from aloe juice, or it can be made tastier by mixing it with fruit juices, teas, and even alcohol.
Is Aloe Vera Drink Good For You To Drink?
Aloe vera has many helpful properties, ranging from aiding in digestion and hydration to improving skin and oral health. Drinking aloe vera juice is a good way to incorporate these properties into your life.
What Alcohol Is Made From Aloe Vera?
Chareau is a form of aloe vera liqueur that has a refreshing taste. It is an alcohol made with cucumber, aloe, and lemon peel. With a low alcohol content, it is suitable for making lighter cocktails.
What Does Aloe Vera Taste Good With?
Mixing the pulp of aloe vera with your favorite juice is a good way to drink it without having to deal with the bitter taste. Watermelon, mango, and orange are juices with strong fruity flavors that help hide the bitterness of aloe vera.
How Do You Blend Aloe Vera To Drink?
To drink aloe vera juice, take a “leaf” and remove the green cover over the pulp. Cube this pulp into a manageable size, and put the cubes in a blender with equal amounts of water. Blend the mixture on high speed, until the gel is distributed and mixed in the water.
