Sugar Free Summer Cocktail Recipes

Let’s be real—summer is all about the cocktails. Unfortunately, those fruity, boozy bevvies can trigger a serious case of FOMO for our sugar free peeps! Piña coladas and frozen margaritas are loaded with simple syrups, flavored liquor and refined sugar cane. While your girlfriends are swapping gossip over their fav sugary cocktails, you’re forced to sip on boring vodka and club soda. What’s a gal to do?

We’ll tell you what you can do—just make your own! You can adapt all your go-to cocktails by trading sugar for healthier, low carb options like clear liquors, citrus fruits, herbs and sparkling water. Low carb pals won’t miss traditional sugary summer drinks one bit once they realize the alternatives have virtually zero sugar and taste just as good.

Get ready to impress all your friends with these tasty, sugar free cocktails. They’re so irresistible, everyone will ditch their drinks for yours!

Choose Low Calorie Mix-Ins

Let’s start off with the basics. Before crafting your new go-to bevvy, you gotta know what your options are. Kick sugar to the curb and replace it with a sugar free sweetener. You can add this to virtually any cocktail to make them taste like the original recipe. We recommend liquid sweeteners, as the powdery stuff has a few more carbs.

A lemon wedge or spritz of lime juice is the quickest way to add a punch of flavor to healthy cocktails that are sort of “meh.” You can also experiment with passion or grapefruit, and people who are on a strict diet can get more zing by throwing in a splash of flavored sparkling water. Adding fruit to summer cocktails is easy peasy, lemon squeezy! (See what we did there?)

We obvs can’t forget about the booze! Go for clear liquors like vodka, gin and silver tequila. It’s hard to find alcohol that’s completely sugar and carb free, but these options are your best bet. Make sure they’re not flavored, too—that pineapple vodka might be calling your name, but it’s hiding a whole bunch of processed sugar!

If you’re looking to replace sugar, then spices and herbs are also the way to go. Diet soda is a reliable mixer for sugar free cocktails, but it gets old fast. Shake things up by muddling cardamom pods with your fruit juice and liquor of choice. This spice tastes great with turmeric and gin. And remember, mint goes with practically everything!

Treat Yo’ Self with Boozy Boocha

Maybe mixology isn’t your calling. Even though most of these recipes are super easy, they require you to put in effort. Sometimes, you don’t want to put in effort on your summer vacay—you want to get (responsibly) drunk! Keeping a low sugar, low calorie diet is hard enough. Everyone deserves to crack open a cold one and not worry about counting the calories.

Boozy Boocha has just the thing. Our low sugar alcohol is like a summer cocktail conveniently packaged in a can for hassle-free partying. Hard kombucha is one of the only alternatives to beer, which is loaded with calories, no matter which brand you buy. Beer might taste good, but kombucha tastes good AND is packed with probiotics that offer many health benefits. Can beer do that? Yeah, we didn’t think so.

The yummy collection at Boozy Boocha is the closest you can get to a sugar free alcoholic beverage without having to play bartender in the kitchen. What little sugar our ‘booch has is nothing compared to the drink’s healthy buzz and signature tangy flavor. This low sugar, low calorie drink is a double win. Next time you want to unwind, don’t stress over making a cocktail and just grab a can of ‘booch!