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Lemon Juice

Fresh-squeezed sharpness, the sour in most of the catalog's sours. Using bottled lemon juice is the fastest way to ruin a good drink — squeeze it the day you're using it.

A juice that appears in 55 of the catalog's 255 drinks.

In the catalog

Arnold Palmer The golfer's drink
Bloody Mary Liquid breakfast debate
Long Island Iced Tea Five spirits walk in
Amaretto Sour Sweet, almondy, divisive
Bramble Gin in a berry patch
French 75 Champagne with gin permit
Hot Toddy Whiskey in a blanket
Lemon Drop Martini Dessert in a martini
New York Sour Sour in a wine cape
Paper Plane Last Word's cousin
Penicillin Smoke, honey, healing
Pink Lemonade Circus tent classic
Sidecar Cognac learns citrus
Whiskey Ginger Two-ingredient warm-up
Whiskey Sour The teaching whiskey
Aviation Violet citrus skies
Clover Club Pink, frothy, sneaky
Corpse Reviver No. 2 Cure or delivery system
Gin Basil Smash Garden with attitude
Gin Fizz Brunch in tall glass
Gold Rush Sour with honey instead
Nimbu Pani Delhi summer in a glass
Orangeade Southern porch classic
Planter's Punch Jamaica's afternoon
Saturn Gin goes full tiki
Sloe Gin Fizz Pink, fizzy, mysterious
South Side Mojito's gin cousin
Tom Collins Lemonade for adults
Virgin Mary Brunch, minus vodka
Whiskey Smash Julep's bright sibling
White Lady Gin at the opera
Bahama Mama Beach without a flight
Bee's Knees Prohibition's honey trick
Between the Sheets Sidecar with mischief
Bitter Giuseppe Cynar's stirred star
Brandy Crusta The original sour
Champs-Élysées Sidecar with Chartreuse
Cinderella Tropical, no regrets
Fish House Punch 1732 Philadelphia
Fog Cutter Tiki's death wish
John Collins Tom Collins gone bourbon
Pink Lady Pretty, not innocent
Pisco Punch Gold Rush in a glass
Ramos Fizz Twelve-minute arm workout
Russian Spring Punch Vodka, berries, regret
Scofflaw Prohibition with rye
Tequila Sour Margarita undressed
Trinidad Sour Bitters as the base
Twentieth Century Chocolate meets citrus
Ward Eight Boston bourbon, citrus
Casino Maraschino's quiet hour
Orgeat Lemonade Almond-bright lemonade
Prohibition Daisy Fruit with structure
Pussyfoot Classic-era composed
Ve.n.to Italy's bartender flex

From the reading room

The six templates Six drinks, and how to read the rest