Real Lemonade
The Real Lemonade is an alcohol-free drink: 3 ingredients, shaken and served in a collins. That makes 248 ml in the glass: a long drink.
MethodShaken
GlassCollins
In the glass248 ml
Strengthalcohol-free
Ingredients
- 60 mlfresh lemon juice
- 30 mlrich sugar syrup
- 105 mlsoda water
Method
- Shake the lemon and syrup with ice.
- Strain into an ice-filled collins glass while also pouring the soda water.
Garnish: Garnish with a lemon wheel.
What it tastes like
- bitter → sweet
- It sits between bitter and sweet: 0.1 out of 10 of bitterness, 68th of 186 for sweetness.
- round → sour
- A sour through and through: 19th of 186 for acidity, carried by fresh lemon juice.
- light → strong
- No alcohol to speak of: 248 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 Lemon Squash: 99 out of 100 for similarity.
Five that come close
- Lemon SquashWith simple syrup in place of rich sugar syrup and shorter by 75 ml.
- Saint ClementsWith fresh orange juice in place of soda water and shorter by 41 ml.
- PussyfootWith fresh orange juice in place of soda water.
- Mimosa6 degrees stronger and built on vino.
- CinderellaWith fresh orange juice in place of rich sugar syrup and longer by 59 ml.
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Recipe source: Difford's Guide · checked on 3 November 2026