Cocktails with Grapefruit soda
Grapefruit soda is a sweetened, carbonated soft drink flavored with grapefruit juice, its oil, or both.
Substitutes for Grapefruit soda
An unsweetened grapefruit soda works if you rebuild sweetness with simple syrup; lemon-lime or orange soda won’t fake the grapefruit note, and plain soda water only replaces the fizz and dilution, not the flavor.
Often confused with
Grapefruit sparkling water
Grapefruit soda is distinctly sweet and has body; grapefruit sparkling water is carbonated water with grapefruit essence and almost no sugar. A Paloma built on the water version comes out tart and thin unless you add syrup.
Grapefruit tonic
Grapefruit soda’s edge comes from citric acid and fruit; grapefruit tonic adds quinine bitterness on top, changing the balance.
Storage
Loses carbonation fast once opened — use it fresh from a sealed bottle or can.
