Name: Electric Lemonade
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 30 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 60 ml Lemon-lime soda; 15 ml Blue curaçao liqueur

Electric Lemonade
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 oz	Lemon-lime soda (Sprite/7-Up)
¹⁄₂ oz	Bols Blue Curaçao

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and skewered lemon slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry sail.
SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with lemon-lime soda.
FLOAT blue curaçao (this will sink and bleed through the cocktail).

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A vodka-charged lemonade with blue curaçao providing both the "electric" blue colour and orange notes.

The more blue curaçao you add, the more electric this cocktail. I'd go easy and drizzle 15ml max to add a blue bleed (as illustrated in our photograph).

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Nutrition:

One serving of Electric Lemonade contains 164 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
9.43% alc./vol. (9.43° proof)
15.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Alexander Mzelski

2nd January at 17:57

Although I've used "organic" lemonade instead of Sprite, this is a light and refreshing drink.

Dávid Ugróczi

21st January 2023 at 17:13

You could use gin instead of vodka and name it English Electric Lightning

G. M. Genovese

6th October 2022 at 19:19

Too sickly sweet. I may try it again later, but my first move would be to reduce the sugar syrup by half in order to allow more tartness to come through. But by half may be too much, hmm... (6 Oct 2022, 3:19p)

S J H Desmond

1st January at 20:01

I made this a few days ago, realising only at the end that I'd ran out of 7UP. I decided to use sparkling water instead and the drink was pretty good, certainly not over sweet.

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