Cocktails with Lemon-lime soda
Lemon-lime soda is a carbonated soft drink flavoured with lemon and lime, typically clear and sweetened.
Taste profile
Sweet and lightly tart, carrying a lemon-lime citrus character over crisp carbonation.
How it's used
Topped over a built drink as a lengthener, it adds sweetness, citrus flavour and effervescence in one pour, added last to preserve fizz and dosed to fill the glass.
Substitutes for Lemon-lime soda
Any other clear sweet lemon-lime soda works interchangeably; failing that, soda water rebuilt with sugar syrup and fresh lemon and lime juice restores the carbonation, sweetness and citrus, though not the exact commercial flavour.
Often confused with
Clear/cloudy lemonade (UK/Australia/NZ)
In the UK, Australia and New Zealand the clear carbonated lemon-lime soft drink is commonly called 'lemonade', while in North America 'lemonade' usually means a still, uncarbonated lemon drink; the sparkling soda is the same product under a different name.
