Planter's Punchless
The Planter's Punchless is an alcohol-free drink: 4 ingredients, shaken and topped and served in a collins. That makes 252 ml in the glass, soda included: a long drink.
MethodShaken and topped
GlassCollins
In the glass252 ml
Strengthalcohol-free
Ingredients
- 60 mlapple juice
- 22.5 mlfresh lime juice
- 7.5 mlgrenadine
- top uplemon-lime soda
Method
- Shake the apple, lime and grenadine with ice.
- Strain into an ice-filled collins glass, top with lemon-lime soda and stir gently.
What it tastes like
- bitter → sweet
- Sweetness leads, and it comes from lemon-lime soda: the 6th sweetest of 186.
- round → sour
- A sour through and through: 20th of 186 for acidity, carried by lemon-lime soda.
- light → strong
- No alcohol to speak of: 252 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: 99 out of 100 for similarity.
Five that come close
- AfterglowWith fresh orange juice in place of lemon-lime soda.
- Green LightWith fresh lemon juice in place of apple juice and shorter by 63 ml.
- Mint LimeadeWith rich sugar syrup in place of grenadine.
- Amaretto Sour analcolicoWith alcohol-free amaretto in place of lemon-lime soda and shorter by 128 ml.
- Roy RogersWith cola in place of lemon-lime soda and shorter by 105 ml.
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Recipe source: Difford's Guide · checked on 3 November 2026