Are you looking to relax and willing to shell out $$? Kin Dream Light with pear juice and a little bit of lemon is a lovely non alcoholic nightcap.
Milk kefir is also good, or water kefir from tibicos.
None of these are literally warm, as I live where it’s hot. But they are relaxing and non alcoholic. If you aren’t sensitive to caffeine, do like the Spanish and have a coffee at night.
Korean Yuja tea is really nice during cold winter months. It’s one of my favorite drinks when it’s cold. It’s sweet and it warms you right up. You can buy the marmalade at Asian grocery stores.
edit: It’s not really tea, but marmalade dissolved in hot water. Sweet, thick and heartwarming. Also the rinds are nice to chew on :)
The name means “baked tea” and it is just as popular on Christmas markets in the Visegrád countries as Glühwein (mulled wine) is in Germany. It probably isn’t sold where you live but you can make it at home.
Sterilize some jam jars.
Take all sorts of warm wintery fruit (apples, pears, oranges, plums, raisins, grapes, strawberries, cherries, mandarines, blackberries, blueberries, currant, raspberries, figs, anise, lemons) and chop it into small pieces, like 8x8x8 mm at most. Remains from juicers are OK. Add sugar (300 g/fruit kg) and cinnamon (1 tsp/fruit kg), perhaps some spices (such as clove).
Preheat your oven to 180-220 °C.
Bake in an open roasting pan for 30 minutes. Stir every 5-10 minutes.
(Optional) add 100 ml/fruit kg rum and mix it in while the fruit is still hot.
Fill the jars, wipe their edges, screw on the lids and leave them to cool upside down.
To make the tea, put 1-2 tablespoons of the mix into a mug with 250 ml of hot water. Once you’ve drunk the fruity tea, use a teaspoon to eat the fruit.
You may argue that it is actually food, and point taken. However, for some reason this is the thing I think of when someone says “beverage”.
Cider is two things. Hot cider is specifically a spiced apple juice, served hot. Cider also refers to alcoholic cider made from fruits, usual apples. If you go to a bar and ask for a cider in the States you will not receive hot cider.
I think you read that backwards. They’re not saying there’s no alcoholic cider in America, they’re saying it’s an American thing to say cider when refering to non-alcoholic apple juice. If you look for cider elsewhere you will get a fruit-based alcohol, you will not get apple juice.
Apple juice is not cider though. Apple juice is clear and flat. Cider (alcoholic) is clear and bubbly. Cider (nonalcoholic) is brown and served hot or cold and spiced or unspiced.
Any of these can be made with other fruit, but apple is the most common.
Interesting, whenever I would make it it would always come out kind of thicker and brownish, especially as it stood around (oxidation I guess). Probably varies by the kind of apple, but the more ‘natural’ kinds I have found at the store also tend to be pretty brown, certainly not clear.
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