# Fresh lime juice

Freshly pressed lime juice with lively acidity and a vivid green, floral aroma.

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

Alcohol: 0% ABV

## Cocktails

- [151 Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/151-swizzle.md): Donn Beach's formidable swizzle, driving overproof Demerara rum through lime, sugar, aromatic bitters, and a cool thread of anise.
- [Air Mail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/air-mail.md): Lightly aged rum, lime, and concentrated honey form a bright Cuban sour before Champagne turns it into a long, sparkling drink over ice.
- [Aku Aku](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/aku-aku.md): Fresh pineapple and mint are flash-blended with lightly aged rum, peach liqueur, lime, and demerara before being fine-strained into an unusually vivid up drink.
- [Ancient Mariner](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ancient-mariner.md): Beachbum Berry's dark, dry reply to Navy Grog sets Jamaican and Demerara rums against grapefruit, lime, allspice, and restrained sugar.
- [Angostura Colada](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/angostura-colada.md): Zac Overman's audacious colada makes aromatic bitters the base, rounded by coconut and pineapple and sharpened with lime and overproof Jamaican rum.
- [Art of Choke](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/art-of-choke.md): Cynar and rum absorb lime, rich demerara, bitters, and muddled mint in a stirred drink whose fresh ingredients behave nothing like a conventional sour.
- [Añejo Highball](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/anejo-highball.md): Dale DeGroff’s rum highball layers oak, orange, lime, ginger, and bitters into a bright long drink with considerably more structure than a simple buck.
- [Barbados Rum Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/barbados-rum-punch.md): The old Barbadian rhyme becomes a measured drink of lime, sugar, island rum, water, bitters, and nutmeg over crushed ice.
- [Batanga](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/batanga.md): Blanco tequila, fresh lime, salt, and cane-sugar cola make a vivid Jalisco highball whose agave, citrus, and savoury edge remain unmistakable.
- [Beachcomber](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/beachcomber.md): A compact white-rum sour where lime and dry orange liqueur meet enough maraschino to turn a Daiquiri outline floral, nutty, and faintly bitter.
- [Cadillac Margarita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/cadillac-margarita.md): A spirit-forward Margarita pairing blanco tequila with Cognac-based Grand Marnier and fresh lime.
- [Canchánchara](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/canchanchara.md): Cuban cane spirit, raw honey, lime, and water make a rustic cracked-ice cooler whose simplicity leaves the aguardiente fully exposed.
- [Cantarito](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/cantarito.md): Reposado tequila, three fresh citrus juices, grapefruit soda, and a savoury chile-lime rim make a generous Jalisco-style cooler.
- [Chartreuse Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/chartreuse-swizzle.md): A vivid herbal swizzle balancing Green Chartreuse with pineapple, falernum, and lime.
- [Closing Argument](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/closing-argument.md): Mezcal takes gin’s place in this exact equal-parts Last Word branch, carrying smoke and roasted agave through Chartreuse, maraschino, and lime.
- [Cobra's Fang](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/cobras-fang.md): Overproof Demerara rum drives orange, lime, passion fruit, falernum, bitters, and anise through crushed ice in a direct and unusually severe Donn Beach punch.
- [Copenhagen](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/copenhagen.md): Genever, dark cherry liqueur, lime, syrup, and Angostura form Gromit Eduardsen’s bready, jammy 2009 signature cocktail for Copenhagen.
- [Cuba Libre](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/cuba-libre.md): Fresh lime turns a rum and cola into a brighter, drier highball, sharpening the cane spirit and cola spice instead of merely decorating them.
- [Daiquiri](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/daiquiri.md): A crisp Cuban rum sour balancing fresh lime with fine sugar.
- [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.
- [Division Bell](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/division-bell.md): A smoky mezcal sour layered with bittersweet Aperol, dry maraschino, and fresh lime.
- [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.
- [Donga Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/donga-punch.md): Aged agricole rum gives grapefruit, lime, and cinnamon a grassy, mineral centre in this lean, crushed-ice Donn Beach reconstruction.
- [Don’s Special Daiquiri](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/dons-special-daiquiri.md): Donn Beach turns the Daiquiri tropical with a Jamaican-led rum split and equal measures of tart lime, vivid passion fruit, and soft honey.
- [East 8 Hold-Up](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/east-8-hold-up.md): Kevin Armstrong’s vivid London modern classic balances vodka with Aperol, pineapple, lime, passion fruit, and measured sweetness over ice.
- [Fernet Cup No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fernet-cup-no-1.md): A bracing Fernet highball brightened with lime, sugar, and spicy ginger beer.
- [Floradora](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/floradora.md): Raspberry, lime, and London dry gin lengthened with ginger ale make this Edwardian highball bright, fragrant, and far drier than its theatrical pink suggests.
- [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.
- [Gin Daisy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-daisy.md): This tall 1902-style Daisy brightens London dry gin with lime and grenadine, then opens the vivid pink sour over cracked ice with soda.
- [Gin Rickey](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-rickey.md): The austere Washington highball brightens dry gin with fresh lime and cold soda, preserving the Rickey's defining absence of sugar.
- [Green Beast](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/green-beast.md): Absinthe, lime, cucumber, sugar, and cold water make Charles Vexenat’s long green drink vivid and vegetal rather than merely anise-heavy.
- [Hotel Nacional](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/hotel-nacional.md): An elegant Cuban rum sour whose restrained pineapple, apricot, and lime suggest the tropics without sacrificing the spirit beneath them.
- [Industry Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/industry-sour.md): Ted Kilgore's equal-parts modern classic turns Fernet-Branca and Green Chartreuse into a bracing, improbably balanced herbal sour.
- [Jet Pilot](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/jet-pilot.md): Three rums, two citrus juices, cinnamon, falernum, anise, and bitters form a compact Luau-era tropical drink with uncommon power and precision.
- [Jungle Bird](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/jungle-bird.md): A dark-rum tropical drink cut by pineapple, fresh lime, and the firm bitterness of Campari.
- [Jägerita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/jagerita.md): David Cordoba’s modern classic treats Jägermeister as a serious amaro base, meeting lime and dry orange liqueur in a startlingly coherent Margarita shape.
- [Kamikaze](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/kamikaze.md): A brisk vodka sour sharpened with fresh lime and the dry orange intensity of Cointreau.
- [Knickerbocker](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/knickerbocker.md): A nineteenth-century rum punch balances aged rum, orange curaçao, raspberry, and lime over fine ice.
- [La Guildive](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/la-guildive.md): Martin Cate’s up rum mule folds peach, vanilla-rich Licor 43, fresh lime, and cinnamon through a small, lively charge of ginger beer.
- [Last Word](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/last-word.md): An equal-parts gin sour combining herbal green Chartreuse and maraschino with sharp lime.
- [Lost Lake](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/lost-lake.md): Paul McGee's modern Chicago tropical classic, balancing funky Jamaican rum and passion fruit with a dry, bittersweet seam of Campari and maraschino.
- [Love & Murder](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/love-and-murder.md): Equal Campari, green alpine liqueur, and lime form an audacious bitter sour, with syrup and four saline drops making the apparent collision cohere.
- [Macunaíma](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/macunaima.md): Cachaça, lime, syrup, and a precise Fernet-Branca measure make this São Paulo modern classic bright, grassy, and darkly bitter at the finish.
- [Mai Tai](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mai-tai.md): A landmark tropical sour balancing aged rum with lime, orange curaçao, almond, and demerara.
- [Mamie Taylor](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mamie-taylor.md): Scotch, lime, and forceful ginger make a brisk nineteenth-century highball with smoke, spice, and no unnecessary sweetness.
- [Mammoth Tusk](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mammoth-tusk.md): Blanc agricole, green alpine liqueur, tropical fruit, almond, and falernum form a huge modern tiki sour under a vivid Peychaud’s float.
- [Margarita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/margarita.md): A bright tequila sour balancing fresh lime with the concentrated orange of Cointreau and a savoury salt rim.
- [Mezcal Margarita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mezcal-margarita.md): A bright, smoky Margarita balancing joven mezcal with Cointreau, fresh lime, and optional agave.
- [Michelada](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/michelada.md): A cold Mexican beer cocktail sharpened with lime, chile heat, Worcestershire, and Maggi beneath a restrained salt rim.
- [Missionary’s Downfall](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/missionarys-downfall.md): Donn Beach's pale-green frozen classic, fragrant with fresh pineapple, mint, peach, honey, and lime over a light rum base.
- [Mojito](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mojito.md): Cuba's defining mint highball keeps white rum, lime, sugar, soda, and whole fresh leaves in a cold, fragrant, sparkling balance.
- [Moscow Mule](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/moscow-mule.md): Vodka's clean weight lets sharp ginger beer and fresh lime dominate this fiercely cold mid-century highball.
- [Naked and Famous](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/naked-and-famous.md): An equal-parts mezcal sour balancing smoky agave with bittersweet orange, herbal Yellow Chartreuse, and lime.
- [Navy Grog](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/navy-grog.md): A bracing Don the Beachcomber punch in which three distinct rums meet grapefruit, lime, honey, and a small sparkling lift.
- [Nuclear Daiquiri](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/nuclear-daiquiri.md): Unaged overproof Jamaican rum, Green Chartreuse, lime, and falernum make Gregor de Gruyther’s equal-parts core ferocious but exact.
- [Nui Nui](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/nui-nui.md): Aged rum, orange, and lime carry cinnamon, vanilla, allspice, and bitters in one of Donn Beach's most aromatic and spice-led tropical drinks.
- [Old Cuban](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/old-cuban.md): An aged-rum Daiquiri lengthened with sparkling wine and perfumed with mint and aromatic bitters.
- [Oriental Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/oriental-cocktail.md): Rye and sweet vermouth give this Savoy-era sour a Manhattan-like core, while dry orange curaçao and a full cut of lime pull it somewhere brighter and stranger.
- [Pago Pago Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pago-pago-cocktail.md): Fresh muddled pineapple softens a dry gold-rum sour while green alpine herbs and white cacao make the finish stranger and more aromatic.
- [Paloma](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/paloma.md): A brisk tequila highball lengthened with pink grapefruit soda and sharpened by lime and a pinch of salt.
- [Pearl Diver](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pearl-diver.md): Donn Beach’s chilled honey-butter emulsion gives light and Demerara rums an almost weightless silkiness beneath orange, lime, spice, and crushed ice.
- [Pegu Club](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pegu-club.md): Gin, dry orange curaçao, fresh lime, and two kinds of bitters make this Rangoon club classic both a taut sour and an aromatic cocktail.
- [Pink Lady](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pink-lady.md): Gin and bonded apple brandy give this pink classic real force beneath tart lime, pomegranate, and a fine egg-white foam.
- [Piña Verde](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pina-verde.md): Erick Castro's modern classic turns Green Chartreuse into a tropical base spirit, vivid against creamy coconut, pineapple, and lime.
- [Port au Prince](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/port-au-prince.md): Aged Haitian cane-juice rum stays central while pineapple, lime, falernum, pomegranate, and bitters form a compact, gently spiced tropical punch.
- [Q.B. Cooler](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/qb-cooler.md): Three regional rum styles move through orange, lime, honey, ginger, falernum, bitters, and soda in Donn Beach’s complex 1937 cooler.
- [Queen Elizabeth](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queen-elizabeth.md): Dry vermouth leads this brisk, lower-proof 1930s sour, with Bénédictine supplying honeyed herbs against a full measure of lime.
- [Queen’s Park Hotel Super Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queens-park-hotel-super-cocktail.md): Trinidad rum, sweet vermouth, lime, real grenadine, and Angostura form a tart, aromatic hotel classic wholly distinct from the Queen’s Park Swizzle.
- [Queen’s Park Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queens-park-swizzle.md): A high-octane Trinidadian swizzle that drives dark Demerara rum through fragrant mint, lime, sugar, and aromatic bitters.
- [Ramos Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ramos-fizz.md): An airy gin fizz enriched with cream, citrus, egg white, and floral notes.
- [Ranch Water](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ranch-water.md): A bone-dry West Texas highball whose mineral sparkle and fresh lime keep blanco tequila vivid and exceptionally refreshing.
- [Roman Holiday](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/roman-holiday.md): Nandini Khaund’s crushed-ice amaro drink pulls Meletti, Campari, pineapple, lime, and cold-brew coffee into a dark, saline Jungle Bird orbit.
- [Rome With a View](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/rome-with-a-view.md): Campari and dry vermouth move from Americano territory into a lime sour before rich syrup and soda turn the whole thing into a low-proof Collins.
- [Royal Bermuda Yacht Club](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/royal-bermuda-yacht-club.md): A poised Barbados-rum sour in which lime is deepened by orange curaçao and the almond, clove, and ginger spice of falernum.
- [Salty Ginger-Ade](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/salty-ginger-ade.md): Date, lime, cumin, salt, mint, and spicy ginger beer make Kaitlyn Goalen’s serious zero-proof cooler earthy, tart, textured, and deeply refreshing.
- [Shrunken Skull](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/shrunken-skull.md): Equal measures of two forceful rums, fresh lime, and real grenadine form a stark, deep-red mid-century tiki sour.
- [Sidewinder’s Fang](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sidewinders-fang.md): Jamaican and Demerara rums sit beneath equal lime, orange, and passion fruit in the Lanai’s long, carbonated cooler, crowned by a snake-like citrus spiral.
- [Siesta](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/siesta.md): A bright tequila sour balancing fresh grapefruit and lime with a measured dose of Campari.
- [Singapore Sling](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/singapore-sling.md): The modern Raffles branch folds gin, cherry, orange, Bénédictine, bitters, and grenadine through fresh pineapple and lime into a long, foaming tropical classic.
- [Southside](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/southside.md): A clean gin sour made vivid and cooling with fresh lime and mint.
- [Spicy Fifty](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/spicy-fifty.md): Vanilla vodka, elderflower cordial, lime, honey, and two deseeded red-chilli slices make Salvatore Calabrese’s modern sour floral, rich, and cleanly hot.
- [Spicy Margarita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/spicy-margarita.md): A fresh Margarita sharpened with jalapeño heat and the green, citrusy lift of coriander leaf.
- [Spicy Mezcal Margarita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/spicy-mezcal-margarita.md): A dry mezcal Margarita with fresh lime, orange liqueur, and a direct green-chilli heat.
- [Steve’s Rum Barrel](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/steves-rum-barrel.md): Steve Crane’s huge Kon-Tiki barrel balances two full measures of rum against four fresh juices, passion fruit, honey, and precise traces of almond and anise.
- [Test Pilot](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/test-pilot.md): Donn Beach's compact rum drink layers Jamaican and light rum with lime, falernum, orange, bitters, and a trace of anise.
- [The Expedition](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/the-expedition.md): Martin Cate’s cover-star tiki drink sets black rum and bourbon against lime, chicory coffee, three measured syrups, and soda for dark, layered refreshment.
- [Three Dots and a Dash](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/three-dots-and-a-dash.md): Donn Beach's wartime victory drink, joining aged agricole and blended rum with honeyed citrus and a precise current of island spice.
- [Tia Mia](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/tia-mia.md): A smoky Mai Tai variation combining aged rum and mezcal with orange, almond, and fresh lime.
- [Tommy’s Margarita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/tommys-margarita.md): A modern Margarita that leaves out orange liqueur, putting tequila and fresh lime against mellow agave sweetness.
- [Twenty Seventy Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/twenty-seventy-swizzle.md): Contrasting rum styles carry lime, honey, demerara, allspice, anise, bitters, and nutmeg through Martin Cate and Ron Roumas’s dark modern swizzle.
- [Vampiro](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/vampiro.md): The IBA branch of this Mexican tequila cooler makes tomato deeply savoury with fresh orange, lime, honey, raw onion, chilli, and Worcestershire.
- [Zombie](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/zombie.md): Donn Beach's formidable 1934 rum rhapsody, layered with citrus, cinnamon, spice, anise, and enough overproof depth to justify its legendary two-drink limit.

## References

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