Lemon, Lime & Bitters
The Lemon, Lime & Bitters is an alcohol-free drink: 3 ingredients, built in the glass and served in a collins. That makes 194 ml in the glass: a long drink.
MethodBuilt in the glass
GlassCollins
In the glass194 ml
Strengthalcohol-free
Ingredients
- 15 mlfresh lime juice
- 150 mllemonade
- 4 mlAngostura Bitters
Method
- Pour the lime and lemonade into an ice-filled collins glass and stir briefly.
- Dash the bitters onto the surface.
- Serve with a straw: the drinker stirs the bitters in.
Garnish: Garnish with a lime wedge.
What it tastes like
- bitter → sweet
- Sweetness shows without covering: it comes from lemonade, with 0.4 out of 10 of bitterness holding it back.
- round → sour
- A sour through and through: 21st of 186 for acidity, carried by lemonade.
- light → strong
- No alcohol to speak of: 194 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 Amaretto Sour analcolico: 99 out of 100 for similarity.
Five that come close
- Amaretto Sour analcolicoWith alcohol-free amaretto in place of lemonade and shorter by 71 ml.
- Roy RogersWith cola in place of lemonade and shorter by 48 ml.
- AfterglowWith fresh orange juice in place of lemonade and longer by 60 ml.
- Planter's PunchlessWith lemon-lime soda in place of lemonade and longer by 58 ml.
- Bora Bora BrewWith ginger ale in place of lemonade and longer by 64 ml.
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Recipe source: Difford's Guide · checked on 3 November 2026