Homemade Sparkling Lemonade

Sparkling Lemonade is easy to make at home and so refreshing! Prepare this summer drink with real lemon and sparkling water.

Want the best sparkling and refreshing drink of the summer? Try homemade Sparkling lemonade! Of course, you can buy this citrus drink in the store. But it’s infinitely better if you make it at home! Use real lemon, sparkling water and sugar to make this summer drink – it’s perfect for sipping on the patio or drinking in winter when you’re dreaming of sunshine. Even better, you can use it in cocktails like Pimm’s Cup or Summer Shandy. Here’s what to do!

Ingredients for the sparkling lemonade

The ingredients for homemade lemonade are simple: you only need 3 ingredients to make a fizzy drink! Here’s everything you need:

• Lemons: You need lemon juice from real lemons: no bottled lemon juice here! For a drink you need 1 large or 2 small lemons.
• Simple Syrup: Simple syrup is easy to make at home using sugar and water. Mix up a batch and refrigerate to use in lemonade or cocktails.
• Carbonated Water: Then all you need is soda water (i.e. sparkling water). You can buy it or make your own at a Soda Stream.

Sparkling lemonade in glass against pitcher

Once you have your ingredients, all you have to do is mix them up! It really couldn’t be easier (really). We mainly do it through glass. But if you’re entertaining and want to do it for a crowd, go the pitcher route! It’s much easier to prepare a crowd.

• Through the glass: You can make 10 ounces or 1 ½ cups of sparkling lemonade with the following recipe. Make it drink as needed.
• Launcher: are you entertaining Prepare a pitcher that will serve 8 servings of 1 cup. Do this for one gathering only; Leftovers don’t last long because of the sparkling water.

The best way to squeeze lemons

Making bubbly pitcher lemonade? This requires quite a bit of lemon juice to squeeze out. What’s the best way to do this by hand? Here are our recommendations:

• First choice: a citrus press. This type of juicer is efficient and ends up squeezing out even more juice than other types. This is our juicer: it lasts well after 200+ cocktails.
• Second best choice: a portable juicer. The next best juicer is the ridged top type (similar to this one).

Step it up: use clear ice

Would you like a glass of sparkling lemonade that looks just like the pictures? Make a batch of clear ice! Clear ice cream is homemade ice cream that is crystal clear instead of cloudy like regular ice cream. You can cut it into large, organically shaped cubes and it looks like ice cream from a fancy bar or restaurant. We use clear ice for many of our cocktail recipes, and you can use it for sparkling lemonade, too.

Sparkling lemonade cocktails

Would you like to use this homemade sparkling lemonade for a cocktail? Good idea. Although you can buy it at the store, we prefer to make it homemade because of the nice bright citrus flavor. In fact, we made this recipe specifically for the first cocktail below!

• Sommerradler A shandy is a British beer cocktail that mixes beer and sparkling lemonade or ginger ale: and it’s so refreshing. Also try a classic shandy or a grapefruit shandy.
• Pimm’s Cup This British cocktail is refreshing and sparkling, with Pimm’s No. 1 and sparkling lemonade. Perfect for summer!

And there you have it: How to make sparkling lemonade at home! Scroll down to the recipe to make it: and let us know what you think in the comments below.

More lemonade and homemade lemonade recipes

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This sparkling lemonade recipe is…

Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free.