# Fresh lemon juice

Freshly pressed lemon juice with clean acidity and a light citrus fragrance.

Parent category: [Citrus juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/citrus-juice.md)

Alcohol: 0% ABV

## Cocktails

- [Amaro Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/amaro-sour.md): Averna takes the lead over a small bourbon spine in Brad Thomas Parsons’s plush, egg-white sour, balancing dark citrus and caramel with fresh lemon.
- [Amelia](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/amelia.md): A bright vodka sour with elderflower, blackberry, and fresh lemon.
- [Apple Cart](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/apple-cart.md): A Calvados Sidecar with crisp apple brandy, concentrated orange, and fresh lemon.
- [Army & Navy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/army-and-navy.md): Orgeat replaces plain sugar in this gin sour, bringing almond richness and orange-flower perfume into a sharply structured, bitters-seasoned drink.
- [Aviation](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/aviation.md): A floral gin sour with maraschino, lemon, and the violet hue of crème de violette.
- [Bee's Knees](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bees-knees.md): Gin, lemon, and honey form a spare Prohibition-era sour whose floral softness makes a useful counterpoint to the whiskey-based Gold Rush.
- [Between the Sheets](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/between-the-sheets.md): A bright, spirit-forward sour joining rum and Cognac with orange liqueur and lemon.
- [Bitter Giuseppe](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bitter-giuseppe.md): Stephen Cole's low-proof modern classic makes earthy Cynar the base, lengthened with sweet vermouth and sharpened by lemon and orange bitters.
- [Bitter Intentions](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bitter-intentions.md): Bobby Heugel turns Campari into the base of a bracing Collins-Americano hybrid, with lemon, syrup, soda, and a fragrant sweet-vermouth float.
- [Bloody Mary](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bloody-mary.md): A savoury vodka highball balancing tomato and lemon with measured chile heat and Worcestershire depth.
- [Bramble](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bramble.md): Dick Bradsell's London gin sour, lengthened over crushed ice and streaked with dark blackberry liqueur.
- [Brandy Crusta](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brandy-crusta.md): A brandy sour with maraschino, curaçao, bitters, a sugar-crusted rim, and a long citrus peel.
- [Brandy Daisy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brandy-daisy.md): The 1888 Harry Johnson branch joins Cognac and Yellow Chartreuse over crushed ice, with lemon, rich syrup, soda, berries, and mint around its herbal centre.
- [Breakfast Martini](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/breakfast-martini.md): Fine-cut orange marmalade gives a taut gin sour fragrant peel oils, pithy bitterness, and a texture that no orange liqueur alone can supply.
- [Bull Shot](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bull-shot.md): Vodka and chilled beef broth take Bloody Mary seasoning into a deeply savoury mid-century highball.
- [Cameron's Kick](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/camerons-kick.md): Equal Scotch and Irish whiskeys turn orgeat and lemon into a compact split-base sour whose almond richness reveals what the two whiskies share and where they differ.
- [Casino](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/casino.md): An Old Tom gin sour sharpened with maraschino, lemon, and orange bitters.
- [Chuflay](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/chuflay.md): Bolivia’s aromatic Singani meets lemon and ginger ale in a crisp national highball whose floral grape character remains clear through the fizz.
- [Clairin Regal Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/clairin-regal-sour.md): Wild Haitian cane spirit, lemon, raw honey, grapefruit bitters, and salt make a compact sour with remarkable savoury and coastal depth.
- [Clover Club](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/clover-club.md): A vivid raspberry gin sour softened by a small measure of egg white.
- [Corpse Reviver No. 2](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/corpse-reviver-no-2.md): An equal-parts gin sour combining Cointreau, Lillet Blanc, lemon, and a bracing dash of absinthe.
- [Cynar Julep](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/cynar-julep.md): This Buenos Aires modern classic makes Cynar the base of a cooling crushed-ice drink with mint, lemon, and bittersweet grapefruit soda.
- [Demerara Dry Float](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/demerara-dry-float.md): Lime, passion fruit, maraschino, and aged rum make an unusually tart tropical drink whose overproof black-rum sidecar lets the drinker choose the danger.
- [Doctor Funk](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/doctor-funk.md): Ester-rich Jamaican rum, two fresh citrus juices, grenadine, absinthe, and soda make an anise-led sparkling cooler with genuine Samoan ancestry and modern tiki force.
- [Enzoni](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/enzoni.md): A bittersweet gin sour that folds muddled green grapes into the structure of a Negroni.
- [Final Ward](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/final-ward.md): An equal-parts rye variation on the Last Word, with Green Chartreuse, maraschino, and lemon.
- [Flor de Jerez](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/flor-de-jerez.md): A sherry-led sour lifted by Jamaican rum, apricot liqueur, lemon, and aromatic bitters.
- [Fog Cutter](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fog-cutter.md): Trader Vic’s heavyweight combines three spirits beneath a strikingly lemon-led citrus body, with orgeat binding the drink before a sweet-sherry float.
- [Formidable Dragon](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/formidable-dragon.md): Three rum styles, Amaro di Angostura, molasses, honey, and twin citrus make Martin Cate’s huge modern tropical drink dark, spicy, and surprisingly coherent.
- [French 75](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/french-75.md): A sparkling gin sour lengthened with Champagne.
- [Gin Basil Smash](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-basil-smash.md): Fresh basil is muddled through Jörg Meyer's bright 2008 gin sour, making vivid green aroma a structural ingredient.
- [Gin Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-fizz.md): A brisk gin and lemon highball lengthened with lively soda.
- [Gold Rush](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gold-rush.md): A bourbon sour sweetened with rich honey syrup instead of sugar.
- [Green Fairy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/green-fairy.md): Absinthe leads lemon, rich syrup, aromatic bitters, and egg white in Dick Bradsell’s poised, foaming 1990s London sour.
- [Gunshop Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gunshop-fizz.md): Two full ounces of Peychaud’s turn strawberry, cucumber, citrus peel, lemon, syrup, and red bitter soda into a vivid, low-proof New Orleans original.
- [Halekulani](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/halekulani.md): High-proof bourbon carries three fresh juices, restrained grenadine, and bitters in a poised Waikiki hotel drink that feels sharper than its tropical ingredients suggest.
- [Humuhumunukunukuapua'a](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/humuhumunukunukuapua-a.md): Gin, pineapple, lemon, orgeat, and Peychaud's make Marcovaldo Dionysos's vivid modern tiki sour.
- [Hurricane](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/hurricane.md): The restored New Orleans branch is unapologetically huge and simple: black rum, lemon, and passion fruit in a two-one-one strong-sour-sweet avalanche.
- [Iron Ranger](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/iron-ranger.md): Erick Castro's bourbon-led tropical drink, bringing pineapple and lemon into focus with falernum, sugar, spice, and serious whiskey weight.
- [John Collins](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/john-collins.md): A cooling gin, lemon, and soda highball with gentle sweetness and plenty of ice.
- [Journalist Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/journalist-cocktail.md): A Perfect Martini gains tiny dashes of lemon, curaçao, and Angostura in this Savoy-era shaken cocktail.
- [King's Cobbler](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/kings-cobbler.md): Neal Bodenheimer’s smoky rhubarb-amaro cobbler folds fresh strawberry and lemon through crushed ice for a dark, bittersweet answer to the wine-based original.
- [London Buck](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/london-buck.md): Also known as the Gin Buck, this crisp London dry gin, lemon, and ginger-ale highball depends on cold, spice, and carbonation.
- [London Calling](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/london-calling.md): Fino sherry draws a saline, almond-dry line through this bright gin sour, with orange bitters and grapefruit peel extending its citrus without adding sweetness.
- [Midnight Stinger](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/midnight-stinger.md): Bourbon and Fernet-Branca meet as equals in a lemon sour over crushed ice, turning the amaro's menthol force into something bracing, cooling, and unexpectedly easy to drink.
- [Monte Cassino](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/monte-cassino.md): Damon Dyer’s equal-parts rye sour makes Yellow Chartreuse and Bénédictine full partners, joining grain, herbs, honeyed spice, and lemon.
- [Mr. Bali Hai](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mr-bali-hai.md): Dark Jamaican rum, light rum, pineapple, lemon, and dry coffee liqueur create a large tropical drink whose roast and funk are more compelling than simple sweetness.
- [Mundo Perdido](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mundo-perdido.md): Black rum and apple brandy give this compact modern tiki sour a dark fruit core, sharpened by lemon and rounded with cinnamon and demerara.
- [New York Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/new-york-sour.md): A dry red-wine float adds fruit, tannin, and a vivid aromatic layer to an 1880s rye sour without hiding the contrast beneath egg-white foam.
- [Paper Plane](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/paper-plane.md): An equal-parts bourbon sour balancing Aperol, Amaro Nonino, and fresh lemon.
- [Penicillin](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/penicillin.md): A Scotch sour sharpened with lemon and ginger-honey syrup, finished with a smoky Islay float.
- [Pisco Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pisco-sour.md): An aromatic grape-spirit sour balancing lemon and sugar beneath a silky egg-white foam seasoned with bitters.
- [Poncha à Pescador](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/poncha-a-pescador.md): Madeira cane aguardente, lemon, and sugar are worked vigorously with the traditional mexelote into the spare, lightly foaming fisherman’s Poncha branch.
- [Port Light](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/port-light.md): Bourbon becomes unmistakably tropical when sharp lemon meets passion fruit and pomegranate over crushed ice in Sandro Conti's direct Midwestern tiki sour.
- [Ramos Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ramos-fizz.md): An airy gin fizz enriched with cream, citrus, egg white, and floral notes.
- [Red Lion](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/red-lion.md): Arthur Tarling’s competition-winning London sour surrounds dry gin and Cognac-based orange liqueur with equal flashes of lemon and orange.
- [Red Snapper](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/red-snapper.md): Gin botanicals drive this later savoury Bloody Mary branch through tomato, lemon, pepper, celery, and measured vinegar heat.
- [Russian Spring Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/russian-spring-punch.md): Cassis and lemon give vodka a vivid blackcurrant-sour core before dry sparkling wine stretches it into a cold, dangerous party drink.
- [Samoan Fog Cutter](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/samoan-fog-cutter.md): Trader Vic's later Samoan revision gives rum, Cognac, and gin an unusually broad tropical base before a sweet sherry float turns the citrus-and-orgeat drink savoury at the surface.
- [Saturn](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/saturn.md): A rare gin-led tiki classic, vivid with passion fruit and lemon and rounded by small measures of falernum and almond-rich orgeat.
- [Scofflaw](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/scofflaw.md): High-proof rye and dry vermouth form a taut Prohibition-era frame for lemon, pomegranate, and orange bitters, landing between a sour and a Dry Manhattan.
- [Scorpion](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/scorpion.md): White rum and brandy share a large measure of orange and lemon with orgeat in Trader Vic's individual 1972 drink, a distinct descendant rather than a scaled-down communal bowl.
- [Search for Delicious](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/search-for-delicious.md): Cynar and Punt e Mes turn silky and aromatic under tiny measures of lemon, orange bitters, and bitterness-taming salt.
- [Sidecar](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sidecar.md): A crisp Cognac sour balanced with orange liqueur and lemon.
- [Sidra Ponche](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sidra-ponche.md): Brandy and fino anchor a tart, nutty punch whose short crown of naturally funky Spanish cider adds orchard fruit and a quiet sparkle.
- [Silver Bullet](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/silver-bullet.md): London dry gin and lemon make a severe sour frame for kümmel’s clear, sweet caraway spice.
- [Sloe Gin Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sloe-gin-fizz.md): A luminous ruby fizz that sharpens sweet-tart British sloe gin with fresh lemon and cold soda, leaving its fruit, kernel, and juniper character clear.
- [Too Soon?](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/too-soon.md): A regal shake with thin orange slices gives this gin-and-Cynar sour fragrant peel oils and soft fruit depth without muddling bitterness into the drink.
- [Tradewinds](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/tradewinds.md): A lush tropical revival balancing two styles of rum with apricot, fresh lemon, and a generous measure of sweet coconut.
- [Trinidad Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/trinidad-fizz.md): Angostura bitters lead a creamy, foaming historical fizz brightened with lemon, grenadine, and cold soda.
- [Trinidad Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/trinidad-sour.md): A radical modern sour using aromatic bitters as its base, softened by rye, lemon, and almond.
- [Twentieth Century](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/twentieth-century.md): Dry gin and lemon sharpen white cacao and Lillet Blanc into C. A. Tuck’s poised 1937 British modernist classic.
- [Ward Eight](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ward-eight.md): Rye, lemon, orange, and real pomegranate grenadine make Boston's celebrated whiskey sour branch drier and more complex than its rosy colour suggests.
- [Whiskey Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/whiskey-sour.md): Bourbon, lemon, and sugar with optional egg white for a soft, foamy texture.
- [White Lady](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/white-lady.md): A gin sour pairing fresh lemon with the orange sweetness of triple sec.
- [Wibble](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/wibble.md): Dry gin and sloe gin share the base of a brisk grapefruit sour, while tiny measures of blackberry liqueur and sugar deepen the hedgerow fruit without turning it jammy.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-lemon-juice
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/fresh-lemon-juice-6a37d8e2.webp
- Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/146.114