Grinch Drinks: 13 Easy Green Grinch Drink Recipes with Ingredients & Simple Steps

Every Christmas party needs one green drink with a little red heart — and nobody does green like the Grinch. This roundup collects 13 Grinch drinks with full ingredients and simple steps: big Grinch punches for a crowd, kid-friendly mocktails, grown-up Grinch cocktails (a margarita, a mimosa and minty Midori sippers), and a mug of Grinch hot chocolate for movie night.

Family glasses are marked (family) and grown-up glasses (21+) so you can plan the table at a glance. And for a whole list of alcohol-free holiday glasses, see our Christmas Mocktails roundup too.

The 13 Grinch Drinks at a Glance

Punches for a crowd (family): Classic Grinch Punch · Grinch Lemonade Punch · Grinch Punch for Kids · Grinch Sherbet Punch · Grinch Party Punch · Grinch Movie Night Punch

Grown-up glasses (21+): Grinch Cocktail · Grinch Margarita · Grinch Merry Mint · The Who Who (Midori) · Grinch Mimosa

Cozy & sweet (family): Grinch Hot Chocolate · Grinch Apple Kiwi Mocktail

1. Classic Grinch Punch (family)

The one from every movie night photo: frothy, green, and gone by halftime.

Serves: 12 | Prep: 10 minutes

Ingredients

• ½ gallon (about 2 litres) lime sherbet, slightly softened
• 2 litres lemon-lime soda, chilled
• 2 cups pineapple juice, chilled
• 1 cup green berry punch or green sports drink (for deeper color)
• Red sanding sugar, for glass rims (optional)
• Maraschino cherries, to garnish

Method

1. Scoop the sherbet into a punch bowl.
2. Pour over the pineapple juice and green punch, then slowly add the lemon-lime soda. Stir gently — it will foam up green and frothy.
3. Ladle into sugar-rimmed glasses and top each with a cherry — the Grinch’s heart.

2. Grinch Lemonade Punch (family)

The lemonade trick: yellow lemonade + a splash of blue turns perfect Grinch green.

Serves: 6 | Prep: 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 4 cups lemonade, chilled
• 1 cup blue curaçao syrup (non-alcoholic)
• 2 cups lemon-lime soda, chilled
• Ice
• Lemon slices and cherries, to garnish

Method

1. Stir the lemonade and blue syrup in a pitcher and watch it turn green.
2. Add ice and the lemon-lime soda; stir once.
3. Serve over ice with lemon slices and a cherry in every glass.

3. Grinch Punch for Kids (family)

Apple-sweet and not too fizzy — the children’s table version.

Serves: 8 | Prep: 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 3 cups apple juice, chilled
• 1 cup kiwi puree (about 4 kiwis, blended and strained) — or a few drops of green food coloring
• 2 cups lemon-lime soda, chilled
• Lime sherbet, 1 small scoop per glass
• Red sprinkles, for rims

Method

1. Stir the apple juice and kiwi puree in a pitcher; chill.
2. Add the soda just before serving.
3. Pour into sprinkle-rimmed cups and float a scoop of lime sherbet in each.

4. Grinch Sherbet Punch (family)

Ginger ale makes this one extra bubbly, with sherbet melting into green clouds.

Serves: 10 | Prep: 10 minutes

Ingredients

• ½ gallon lime sherbet
• 1 litre ginger ale, chilled
• 2 cups pineapple juice, chilled
• 1 cup lemon-lime soda, chilled
• Maraschino cherries, to garnish

Method

1. Add the sherbet to a punch bowl in big scoops.
2. Pour in the pineapple juice, then the ginger ale and soda, slowly.
3. Stir once or twice only — you want sherbet clouds, not a flat mix. Garnish with cherries.

5. Grinch Party Punch (family)

The prettiest bowl of the bunch — cucumber ribbons and cherries floating in green.

Serves: 10 | Prep: 10 minutes + chilling

Ingredients

• 4 cups white grape juice, chilled
• 2 cups lemon-lime soda, chilled
• ½ cup lime juice
• ½ cup blue curaçao syrup (non-alcoholic), to green it up
• ½ cucumber, cut into ribbons
• 1 cup maraschino cherries with stems
• Ice

Method

1. Stir the grape juice, lime juice and blue syrup together; adjust the blue until it’s Grinch green.
2. Chill for 1 hour with the cucumber ribbons in the mix.
3. Add ice and soda at serving time and scatter the cherries over the top.

6. Grinch Movie Night Punch (family)

Small batch, big toppings — whipped cream clouds and a blizzard of sprinkles.

Serves: 4 | Prep: 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups lemon-lime soda, chilled
• 1 cup pineapple juice
• ½ cup green berry punch
• Whipped cream, to top
• Red and green sprinkles
• 4 cherries

Method

1. Stir the soda, pineapple juice and green punch over ice in a small pitcher.
2. Pour into mugs or glasses.
3. Crown each with whipped cream, sprinkles and a cherry. Serve with popcorn, obviously.

7. Grinch Cocktail (21+)

The classic green sipper — melon-sweet with a citrus snap.

Serves: 1 | Prep: 3 minutes

Ingredients

• 1½ oz Midori (melon liqueur)
• 1 oz vodka
• ½ oz fresh lemon juice
• Ice
• 1 maraschino cherry, to garnish

Method

1. Shake the Midori, vodka and lemon juice hard with ice.
2. Strain into a chilled coupe or over fresh ice in a rocks glass.
3. Garnish with the cherry.

8. Grinch Margarita (21+)

Green, salty-sweet and made for the grown-ups’ table.

Serves: 1 | Prep: 4 minutes

Ingredients

• Coarse salt, for the rim
• 2 oz blanco tequila
• 1 oz Midori
• ¾ oz fresh lime juice
• ½ oz triple sec
• Ice
• Lime wheel, to garnish

Method

1. Rim a glass with lime and coarse salt; fill with ice.
2. Shake the tequila, Midori, lime juice and triple sec with ice.
3. Strain into the glass and garnish with a lime wheel.

9. Grinch Merry Mint Cocktail (21+)

A creamy grasshopper-style glass — mint and chocolate in Grinch green.

Serves: 1 | Prep: 3 minutes

Ingredients

• 1½ oz vodka
• ¾ oz green crème de menthe
• ½ oz white crème de cacao
• 1 oz single cream (half-and-half)
• Ice
• Shaved chocolate, to garnish

Method

1. Shake everything hard with ice until frosty.
2. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
3. Shower with shaved chocolate.

10. The Who Who — Midori Pineapple Cocktail (21+)

Tropical and bright — the Whoville toast.

Serves: 1 | Prep: 3 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 oz Midori
• 1 oz coconut rum (such as Malibu)
• 2 oz pineapple juice
• Splash of lemon-lime soda
• Ice
• Pineapple wedge and cherry, to garnish

Method

1. Shake the Midori, rum and pineapple juice with ice.
2. Strain over fresh ice in a tall glass.
3. Top with the soda splash and garnish.

11. Grinch Mimosa (21+)

Christmas-morning green bubbles — two ingredients and a cherry.

Serves: 1 | Prep: 2 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 oz Midori
• 3 oz prosecco or champagne, well chilled
• 1 maraschino cherry, to garnish

Method

1. Pour the Midori into a champagne flute.
2. Top slowly with the prosecco.
3. Drop in the cherry.

12. Grinch Hot Chocolate (family)

White hot chocolate gone green, with peppermint and a whipped-cream Santa hat swirl.

Serves: 2 | Prep: 10 minutes (crockpot: multiply by 4 and keep on Low for 2 hours)

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole milk
• ½ cup white chocolate chips
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ¼ tsp peppermint extract
• Green food coloring (gel works best)
• Whipped cream and a red heart sprinkle or cherry, to serve

Method

1. Warm the milk in a saucepan over medium heat until steaming — don’t boil.
2. Whisk in the white chocolate chips until melted and smooth.
3. Stir in the vanilla, peppermint and enough coloring for a Grinch green. Serve topped with whipped cream and the red heart.

13. Grinch Apple Kiwi Mocktail (family)

The single-serve green glass from our mocktail list — fresh kiwi does the coloring.

Serves: 1 | Prep: 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 kiwis, peeled
• ½ cup apple juice
• ½ cup lemon-lime soda
• 1 tsp lime juice
• Ice
• 1 maraschino cherry, to garnish

Method

1. Blend or muddle the kiwis into a smooth puree.
2. Shake the puree, apple juice and lime juice with ice; strain over fresh ice.
3. Top with soda and sit the cherry on top.

Grinch Party Tips

1. Green, the easy way: yellow + blue = green. Lemonade or pineapple drinks turn Grinch green with blue curaçao (syrup or a blue sports drink) far more reliably than green coloring in red-based juices.
2. The heart matters. A single red cherry, heart sprinkle or strawberry on every glass is what makes a green drink a Grinch drink.
3. Sugar rims photograph best — red sanding sugar on the punch glasses echoes the heart and hides a multitude of party sins.
4. Sherbet goes in last and gets one gentle stir. Over-stirring melts the foam that makes Grinch punch look alive.

FAQs

What is Grinch punch made of?

Classic Grinch punch is lime sherbet melted into lemon-lime soda and pineapple juice (Recipe 1), served with a red cherry “heart.” Kids’ versions swap in apple juice (Recipe 3), and grown-up versions trade the soda base for Midori cocktails (Recipes 7–11).

How do I make drinks green without food coloring?

Use naturally green ingredients — kiwi puree, lime sherbet, Midori, green crème de menthe — or the yellow-plus-blue trick: add something blue (curaçao syrup, blue sports drink) to yellow juices like lemonade and pineapple.

Can I make Grinch punch ahead?

Mix the juices ahead and refrigerate; add soda, ginger ale and sherbet only at serving time so it stays fizzy and frothy.

Is Grinch hot chocolate just white chocolate and coloring?

Basically, yes — white hot chocolate with peppermint and green gel coloring (Recipe 12). The crockpot version holds it warm through a whole movie marathon.

More green and red glasses: our Christmas Mocktails are all family-friendly, the Christmas Drink Recipes cover the classics, and Hot Chocolate Recipes keep Whoville warm.