Sake Mojito Cocktail Recipe
A Mojito built on sake instead of rum — lighter, slightly rice-sweet, and far less sharp.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Highball glass
- ABV: 9%
- Difficulty: Easy
- Prep time: ~4 min
Ingredients
- Sake60 ml (2 oz)
- Fresh lime juice25 ml (0.8 oz)
- Simple syrup20 ml (0.7 oz)
- Fresh mint leaves10 piece
- Soda water60 ml (2 oz)
How to Make It
- Muddle the mint gently with lime juice and syrup in a highball glass.
- Add the sake and fill with crushed ice.
- Top with soda water and churn with a bar spoon.
- Garnish with a mint bouquet.
Garnish
Mint bouquet
What it tastes like
It smells of lemon and lime peel, mint leaves a cooling finish, it drinks cool and easy and it is low in alcohol.
The technique
Muddling. Fruit, herbs or sugar get pressed at the bottom of the glass. With leaves like mint the goal is to press, not to shred: two or three pushes is plenty, more releases chlorophyll and turns the drink grassy and bitter. Sugar and firm fruit, on the other hand, really do get crushed.
Glass and ice
A tall, narrow highball. The narrowness does real work — less surface area means the carbonation lasts longer and the ice melts more slowly.
Ingredient notes and substitutes
- Fresh lime juice
- Freshly squeezed lime. Bottled lime tastes cooked and flat; one lime gives about 30 ml. If you have none, half lemon and half grapefruit juice comes closest.
- Simple syrup
- One part sugar to one part water, stirred until it dissolves — no need to boil it. Keeps a month in the fridge. No syrup? Use the same amount of honey, loosened with a little water.
- Fresh mint leaves
- The stem is bitter, so use the leaves. One clap between your palms before it goes in releases the oils and gives you the aroma without bruising it.
- Soda water
- Plain carbonated water. It goes in LAST and nothing is stirred after it. An open bottle goes flat fast, so small bottles make more sense than big ones.
The Story
Sake cocktails were a Tokyo bar experiment of the 2000s, made to give a fifteen-percent drink a role beyond the dinner table.
Frequently asked questions
- How is a Sake Mojito mixed?
- It is muddled and served in a highball glass.
- How strong is a Sake Mojito?
- Roughly 9% ABV as served — lighter than a beer — a long-conversation drink that takes a second round.
- Can a Sake Mojito be made without alcohol?
- Simply leaving the spirit out does not work — the body and the bitterness go with it. The 86 alcohol-free recipes in the catalogue are built to hit that balance from the start.
- Is a Sake Mojito hard to make?
- Easy. No bar kit required — a measure, ice and a jar will do.
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