Watermelon Juice Vs Watermelon Puree: Different Mocktail And Cocktail
Watermelon is a popular summertime tropical fruit often used for making cocktails and mocktails during this season. From a watermelon wedge as a garnish to preparing watermelon sugar to making juices and purees, the fruit is utilised in multiple ways for blending different kinds of alcoholic and non-alcoholic blends.
The consistency, texture and flavour of the watermelon required in a cocktail or mocktail all become influential in determining how the fruit is added to a mix.
It is no surprise then that there is a difference in the application of the juice and the puree of this fruit in mixology. While juice has a more fluid consistency and can be used as a mixer in cocktails and sherbets, puree is a thicker liquid that is most often than not topped up with sparkling water or tonic water. Watermelon juice can be used to build a cocktail or mocktail by itself, whereas a puree would need an additional mixer so its flavours seep into the blend.
Read on below to know more about some of the different applications of watermelon juice and puree in crafting cocktails and mocktails:
Watermelon Juice For Pulpy Texture
The easiest way to extract watermelon juice is to blend chunks of this fresh fruit with a little bit of ice. And one of the most interesting applications of watermelon juice is making use of its pulpy texture. Allow the tiny, crushed watermelon bits to stay in the juice and add this to cocktail and mocktail preparations to give a slightly chewy feel to the drink. Watermelon juice enables a mixologist to infuse a uniformly pulpy texture into cocktails such as the watermelon basil smash made with the addition of 30 ml Ciroc Ultra Premium Vodka or any other premium vodka of your choice..
Watermelon Puree For Smooth Blends
One of the differences between juice and puree lies in their textural finish. While the pulpy texture of the juice permeates throughout a drink, a pulpy puree might take away from some of the structure of a blend to leave it looking grainy and unmixed. A smooth puree on the other hand, which has been strained to remove any solid chunks is an excellent addition to drinks like a watermelon margarita made using 30 ml Don Julio Blanco Tequila or any other premium tequila of your choice, or a non-alcoholic watermelon lemonade.
Watermelon Juice For Building Drinks
Another difference between the juice and the puree’s application in drinks is related to how they are blended with other ingredients. Watermelon juice acts as an excellent mixer for building drinks so that its full flavour becomes the primary component in a blend that brings all the other elements of the drink together. In a watermelon and gin smash made using 30 ml Tanqueray No. 10 gin or any other premium gin of your choice, the juice integrates all other ingredients like the liquor, 15 ml lime juice and 2-3 mint leaves used for garnish, so they come together in a unified blend.
Watermelon Puree For Infusing Flavour
Watermelon puree on the other hand is an excellent ingredient for imbuing subtle hints of the fruit’s flavour into a drink. This is particularly useful while crafting cocktails like the daiquiri or mocktails such as a watermelon-ginger smash. With this, a slight, pinkish hue of the fruit also seeps into the blend so that it acquires just a tinge of colour, building into the nuance of the mix. 
Watermelon Juice For Sherbets
Often, watermelon juice is preferred in the making of sherbets because it can act as a mocktail base. Adding a few drops of lime juice, ginger syrup or simple syrup to a glass of watermelon juice quickly turns this simple ingredient into a summertime sherbet served on a bed of ice.
Watermelon Puree For Mocktails
Contrarily, watermelon puree is more suitable for making mocktails which contain multiple ingredients such as herbal infusions and fizzy mixers like sparkling water or club soda. Using watermelon puree would mean slowly releasing the flavours of this fruit into the drink, without overpowering the whole mixture so that all the different ingredients in the mocktail come together in a harmonious, spritzy blend.
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