Crossip Pure Hibiscus is a non-alcoholic spirit alternative produced in the United Kingdom. It features a fruity and herbal blend of hibiscus, rhubarb, elderberry, cranberry, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cayenne.
It opens with smooth silky flavours of rhubarb and hibiscus giving a perfect blend of fruity tartness with a slight syrupy sweetness. This uncomplicated prologue lingers as a baseline but yields to the bitters which come through in the middle with astonishing boldness – you really do have to like bitters to enjoy this drink. Finally, there’s a long finish with cayenne and ginger leaving the mouth tingling with fieriness and bitterness. It’s refreshing, it’s sweet, it’s bitter – it gives nods to Campari and Amari, but the flavours are very much its own.