Huh, first time I noticed the pinned thread. Here’s a favorite of mine, the Rock Shandy:

lemon juice
simple syrup
a generous helping of Angostura bitters
top with enough sparkling water to make a highball

Quantities to taste, it’s supposed to be an almost-no-alcohol highball, though, so put dashes of bitters in it, not ounces. AFAIK the standard is lemon/lime soda instead of lemon juice and simple syrup, but I rarely keep soda around and IMO this version tastes better anyway.

Well it’s dry July and I am having a strawberry lemonade - strawberry syrup, fresh lemon juice, the end of the strawberry kvass, and filtered water.

Strawberry kvass - cut strawberries tops off generously, save the strawberries for something else. Mix the tops with lots of sugar and boiled and cooled (or really filtered like lifestraw filtered) and any spices you want. Let this sit loosely covered until it’s fizzy, then strain and bottle.

Strawberry syrup - lots of ways to make this. I did cook down strawberries in sugar and water then strained it. Tossed the mush of sweet strawberry removed into the kvass pitcher based on this recipe she doesn’t use the tops for some reason but I always make the fruit fermented drinks with the peels, tops, ends - one of the reasons to do it in the first place is to divert waste!

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