Florida

The Florida is an alcohol-free drink: 5 ingredients, shaken and topped and served in a collins. That makes 279 ml in the glass, soda included: a long drink.

Ingredients

• 30 mlgrapefruit juice
• 60 mlfresh orange juice
• 15 mlfresh lemon juice
• 7.5 mlrich sugar syrup
• top upsoda water

Method

1. Shake the juices and syrup with ice.
2. Strain into an ice-filled collins glass and top with soda water.

Garnish: Garnish with an orange slice.

What it tastes like

bitter → sweet

It sits between bitter and sweet: 0.3 out of 10 of bitterness, 111th of 186 for sweetness.

round → sour

Citrus shows, but this is no sour: 64th of 186, and it comes from fresh orange juice.

light → strong

No alcohol to speak of: 279 ml in the glass and under one degree, so it sits at the bottom of the axis with the other alcohol-free drinks.

Its closest neighbour is the Arnold Palmer: 98 out of 100 for similarity.

Five that come close

• Arnold PalmerWith cold black tea in place of fresh orange juice and shorter by 79 ml.
• CinderellaWith pineapple juice in place of grapefruit juice and longer by 28 ml.
• Lemon SquashSweeter and more sour.
• Ginger No-jitoSweeter and with ginger beer in place of soda water.
• Berry BlastMore sour and with cold black tea in place of soda water.

Every drink near the Florida on the map

Recipe source: Difford's Guide · checked on 3 November 2026