Green Light
The Green Light is an alcohol-free drink: 4 ingredients, built in the glass and served in a collins. That makes 189 ml in the glass, soda included: a long drink.
MethodBuilt in the glass
GlassCollins
In the glass189 ml
Strengthalcohol-free
Ingredients
- 22 mlfresh lemon juice
- 2 mlmint
- 20 mlmint syrup
- top uplemon-lime soda
Method
- Muddle the chopped lemon and the mint in the base of the glass.
- Fill with ice, add the mint syrup and top with lemon soda.
- Stir with a bar spoon.
Garnish: Garnish with mint leaves and a lemon slice.
What it tastes like
- bitter → sweet
- Sweetness leads, and it comes from lemon-lime soda: the 3rd sweetest of 186.
- round → sour
- A sour through and through: 18th of 186 for acidity, carried by lemon-lime soda.
- light → strong
- No alcohol to speak of: 189 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 Planter's Punchless: 98 out of 100 for similarity.
Five that come close
- Planter's PunchlessWith apple juice in place of fresh lemon juice and longer by 63 ml.
- Mint LimeadeWith fresh lime juice in place of fresh lemon juice and longer by 83 ml.
- AfterglowWith fresh orange juice in place of lemon-lime soda and longer by 65 ml.
- Prohibition DaisyWith fresh orange juice in place of lemon-lime soda and shorter by 36 ml.
- San FranciscoWith fresh orange juice in place of lemon-lime soda and longer by 205 ml.
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Recipe source: Scatti di Gusto · checked on 3 November 2026