Lemon Squash
The Lemon Squash is an alcohol-free drink: 3 ingredients, built in the glass and served in a highball. That makes 173 ml in the glass: a middling measure.
MethodBuilt in the glass
GlassHighball
In the glass173 ml
Strengthalcohol-free
Ingredients
- 40 mlfresh lemon juice
- 20 mlsimple syrup
- 90 mlsoda water
Method
- Fill the glass with crushed ice.
- Pour the lemon juice, the syrup and the sparkling water and stir with a bar spoon.
Garnish: Garnish with a lemon slice.
What it tastes like
- bitter → sweet
- It sits between bitter and sweet: 0.1 out of 10 of bitterness, 74th of 186 for sweetness.
- round → sour
- Citrus shows, but this is no sour: 24th of 186, and it comes from fresh lemon juice.
- light → strong
- No alcohol to speak of: 173 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 Real Lemonade: 99 out of 100 for similarity.
Five that come close
- Real LemonadeWith rich sugar syrup in place of simple syrup and longer by 75 ml.
- Saint ClementsWith fresh orange juice in place of soda water and longer by 34 ml.
- CinderellaWith fresh orange juice in place of simple syrup and longer by 134 ml.
- Mimosa6 degrees stronger and built on vino.
- PussyfootWith fresh orange juice in place of soda water and longer by 56 ml.
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Recipe source: CocktailMag · checked on 3 November 2026