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Berry Grenadine Dessert Mocktail

Real grenadine, lemon and bubbles — a pudding-hour drink that takes about a minute to build.

beClink Editorial · April 10, 2026

3 minTotal
1Serves
0.0%Alcohol
80Calories
berry grenadine dessert mocktail non alcoholic drink with fresh berries and citrus

Grenadine has a reputation problem, mostly earned by the neon stuff. Made properly from pomegranate it is tart, deep and genuinely useful — and with lemon, berries and soda it turns into something you would happily serve after dinner. No shaking, no measuring beyond the first pour, and if you have made your own grenadine this is the drink that shows it off.

Recipe

Ingredients

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Steps

Highball, over ice · A berry and a lemon wheel

  1. Press the berries. Drop the berries into a highball glass and press them once with the back of a spoon.
    Tip: Once is enough; press harder and you get seeds, not juice.
  2. Add ice and grenadine. Fill the glass with ice, add the grenadine and lemon juice, and stir.
    Tip: Real pomegranate grenadine is tarter and less sweet than the bright red kind.
  3. Top and garnish. Top with sparkling water, poured down the side, and garnish with a berry or a lemon wheel.
    Tip: Don't stir again; it costs the bubbles.

Per drink: about 80 calories and 17 g sugar. Estimated from the bottle's label and USDA data.

Make it yours

It is fifteen minutes

Pomegranate juice and sugar, warmed until clear. Tarter and deeper than any bottle, and this is the drink where the difference shows most — the recipe is here, and it makes enough for a dozen of these.

Reduce it further

Simmer the juice to two-thirds before adding sugar, as in the grenadine recipe. More concentrated, so use 15ml rather than 20ml here.

Raspberry

Sharper than strawberry and it holds its shape in the glass rather than collapsing.

Blackberry

Deeper and less sweet. Good in autumn, and it turns the drink almost purple.

Frozen, straight from the bag

They double as ice and chill without watering it down. The easiest version of this drink.

Sparkling wine

Non-alcoholic sparkling instead of soda and it becomes a dessert kir, which is no bad thing.

Sparkling tea

Tannin instead of nothing. It gives the drink a finish that soda water cannot.

More lemon, first

Before you cut the grenadine. Most of what reads as too sweet here is not enough acid.

Two dashes of bitters

Aromatic or orange. It gives a sweet drink somewhere to end without taking any sweetness away.

Cut to 15ml

And lengthen with more soda. The color survives easily — grenadine has plenty to give.

Common questions

Does grenadine contain alcohol?

Not the one used here — it is a pomegranate syrup rather than a liqueur. A few commercial versions use a small amount as a preservative, so the label is worth a glance if that matters to you, but the ingredient itself has never been an alcoholic one.

Is homemade grenadine worth it for this?

In this drink more than most, because there are only three things in the glass and the grenadine is two of them. Homemade is pomegranate and sugar and nothing else, so it lands tarter and deeper, and it takes about fifteen minutes to make enough for a dozen of these.

Can I use frozen berries?

Yes, and they double as ice. Drop them in while still frozen and the drink stays cold without watering down as it goes. Press them once as they soften rather than at the start.

Why lemon rather than lime?

Lemon is rounder and lets the pomegranate lead. Lime is sharper and more assertive, so it competes with the grenadine rather than framing it — pleasant, but a different drink.

Is it suitable for children?

Yes. It's grenadine, lemon, berries and soda, with no alcohol at all. It's the drink on this page children ask for.

How do I make it less sweet?

Add more lemon first, then cut the grenadine to 15 ml and add more soda. Two dashes of bitters also help.

How to serve & pair

Tall, over a full glass of ice, in something you can see through — this is a drink that earns half its keep on looks. It suits the end of a meal rather than the start of an evening, and it is the one on this page that children will ask for, which is worth knowing before you make one for yourself. If you have a bottle of your own grenadine in the fridge, this is where it goes.

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