Name: Real Lemonade
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Lemon juice; 30 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 105 ml Soda (club soda) water

Real Lemonade
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Ingredients:
2 oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1 oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
3 ¹⁄₂ oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water chilled

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.

How to make:

SHAKE first 2 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring grapefruit soda.

Garnish:

Garnish with lemon slice wheel.

Strength & taste guide:

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

The classic English summertime refresher.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Real Lemonade contains 107 calories

*Alcohol-free: This recipe contains a maximum of 0.5% alc/vol.

Alcohol content:

0 standard drinks
0% alc./vol. (0° proof)
0 grams of pure alcohol

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Jo Morgan

29th August at 21:12

I feel like it needs more lemon zest adding somewhere. The zest is where all the good lemony taste is - juice just provides sourness IMO.

BTW, the ingredients list says soda water, but the instructions mention grapefruit soda. Could be interesting…

Florian Ruf

11th August at 14:23

Very refreshing summer drink. I suggest to use the japanese method for gin tonic. Put the glass in the freezer and use very cold ingredients. Start with the lemon juice, syrup on top then a very sparkling soda and last the ice. If it is not mixed well use a spoon and move it carefully up and down.

Chris Dimal

5th December 2022 at 12:53

Honestly disappointing. The sugar syrup is at the bottom, the lemon juice above, then soda on top. It's deconstructed and an unpleasant experience. Probably shaking the first two ingredients is best.