Lime Rickey
Col. Rickey's sober kin
Fresh lime and soda, sweetened just enough. The non-alcoholic descendant of Colonel Joe Rickey's original whiskey-and-lime concoction from 1880s Washington.
Ingredients
- 3/4 oz Fresh Lime Juice
- 1/2 oz Simple Syrup
- 5 oz Soda Water
Method
Squeeze a whole lime into a highball, dropping the spent half in. Add simple syrup. Fill with ice. Top with soda water. Stir once. Garnish with a lime wedge.
The Lime Rickey is a non-alcoholic member of the Rickey family — the original (bourbon, later gin) Rickey was created in 1880s Washington D.C. by bartender George A. Williamson at Shoomaker’s for Colonel Joseph Rickey, the Gin Rickey first printed in Harry Johnson’s 1882 Bartenders’ Manual. The spirit-free Lime Rickey is an established early-20th-century soda-fountain drink — lime, sugar, and soda — with no single documented inventor. Per Difford’s Guide.