Campari Soda
The Campari Soda is a bar standard outside the IBA list: 2 ingredients, built in the glass and served in a rocks glass. That makes 115 ml in the glass: a middling measure.
MethodBuilt in the glass
GlassRocks glass
In the glass115 ml
Strength8.7%
Ingredients
- 40 mlCampari
- 60 mlsoda water
Method
- Pour the Campari into an ice-filled old-fashioned glass.
- Top with soda water.
Garnish: An orange slice, if you like.
What it tastes like
- bitter → sweet
- Bitterness leads: 3.0 out of 10, carried by Campari. That makes it the 7th most bitter of 186.
- round → sour
- It tends round: 161st of 186 for acidity, with no citrus at all.
- light → strong
- Just 8.7% in the glass: lighter than 74% of the catalogue, and the volume has as much to do with it as the recipe.
Its closest neighbour is the Americano: 95 out of 100 for similarity.
Five that come close
- AmericanoAnd it has sweet red vermouth in it and longer by 23 ml.
- Irish CoffeeMore sour and built on whisky.
- NOgroni9 degrees lighter and with non-alcoholic gin in place of soda water.
- Non-zero PossibilitySweeter, more sour and 9 degrees lighter.
- BiciclettaMore sour and built on vino.
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Recipe source: Nostra convenzione · checked on 3 November 2026