No. 57Briny Without Booze
Pickle Lemonade
Fresh lemonade with a dill kick. Refreshingly briny.
Pickle Lemonade is fresh lemonade with an ounce of dill pickle brine stirred in and served tall over ice. The salty, garlicky brine rounds out the tart lemon, so it tastes sweet, sour and savory at once. It is the simplest drink in the Briny Without Booze section and the easiest one to make by the pitcher.
Zero proofUpdated
Brine3/53 of 5
HeatNonenone
StrengthZero proof
- Glass
- Collins glass
- Method
- Built in the glass
- Time
- 3 min
- Makes
- 1 drink
Ingredients
Make it for
Units
Amounts for 1, in ounces.
- 1 oz fresh lemon juice (about 1 lemon)
- 1½ oz simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water)
- 1 oz dill pickle brine (chilled, from the jar)
- 4 oz cold water
- 1 slice lemon (cut into a wheel, for garnish)
- 1 slice dill pickle (for garnish)
- Glass
- Collins glass
- Garnish
- lemon wheel, pickle chip and straw
How to make it
- Fill a collins glass with ice.
- Pour in the lemon juice, simple syrup and pickle brine.
- Top with the cold water.
- Stir until the outside of the glass feels cold.
- Garnish with the lemon wheel and pickle chip, and add a straw.
Bar tips
- Use brine from classic dill pickles. Bread-and-butter brine is already sweet and turns this into candy.
- Pitcher for eight: stir together 1 cup lemon juice, 1½ cups simple syrup, 1 cup pickle brine and 4 cups cold water, chill, then pour over ice.
- Taste before you serve: add a little more syrup if it is sharp, or a splash more brine if you want it saltier.
Make it your own
- Short on lemons? Replace the lemon juice, syrup and water with 6.5 oz of store-bought lemonade.
- Muddle three cucumber slices in the glass first for a cooler, garden-fresh version.
Zero proof, full brine. No spirits, wine or beer in this one. If you need 0.0%, check the labels on any non-alcoholic bottles you use.
Full recipe: dillin.org/recipes/pickle-lemonade
