Mint Limeade
The Mint Limeade is an alcohol-free drink: 5 ingredients, shaken and topped and served in a collins. That makes 272 ml in the glass, soda included: a long drink.
MethodShaken and topped
GlassCollins
In the glass272 ml
Strengthalcohol-free
Ingredients
- 9 mlmint
- 45 mlfresh lime juice
- 30 mlapple juice
- 22.5 mlrich sugar syrup
- top uplemon-lime soda
Method
- Lightly muddle the mint in the base of the shaker, just to bruise it.
- Add the lime, apple and syrup and shake with ice.
- Fine strain into an ice-filled collins glass and top with lemon-lime soda.
Garnish: Garnish with mint sprigs.
What it tastes like
- bitter → sweet
- Sweetness leads, and it comes from lemon-lime soda: the 7th sweetest of 186.
- round → sour
- A sour through and through: 9th of 186 for acidity, carried by fresh lime juice.
- light → strong
- No alcohol to speak of: 272 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 Afterglow: 98 out of 100 for similarity.
Five that come close
- AfterglowWith fresh orange juice in place of lemon-lime soda.
- San FranciscoWith fresh orange juice in place of lemon-lime soda and longer by 121 ml.
- Planter's PunchlessWith grenadine in place of rich sugar syrup.
- Prohibition DaisyWith fresh orange juice in place of lemon-lime soda and shorter by 119 ml.
- Green LightWith fresh lemon juice in place of fresh lime juice and shorter by 83 ml.
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Recipe source: Difford's Guide · checked on 3 November 2026