Lemon juice is the juice of a lemon, or Citrus limon, a small, evergreen tree native to Asia. Lemon juice is mainly composed of citric acid, and has a pH of around 2.3. While lemon juice has an incredible amount of culinary uses (everything from curdling milk for cream cheese to balancing out pan juices for gravy to cleaning pots and pans), it is the primary acidity used in cocktail making, as it is the most neutral of the common acidifiers (other common acid sources include limes and oranges).
Lemon juice adds a fairly neutral balance in modest amounts, but can shift the flavors of other ingredients, as in the Jasmine, where lemon juice takes the cherry flavor of Campari and makes it taste like pink grapefruit.
Some popular cocktails containing Lemon juice
- Coffee Cobbler — Venezuelan rum, Coffee liqueur, Orange liqueur, Simple syrup, Lemon juice
- Railcar #91 — Cognac, Lemon juice, Honey syrup, Orange Foam
- Augusta Punch Shot — Bourbon, Apple brandy, Peach bitters, Tea, Lemon juice, Oleo-saccharum, Peach
- Spicy Sandilla — Blanco tequila, Elderflower liqueur, Lemon juice, Simple syrup
- Spare Parts — Bourbon, Rhubarb liqueur, Lemon juice, Simple syrup
- Sissy's Bane — Cardamaro, Bourbon, Brandy, Lemon juice
- StregViation — Gin, Strega, Crème de Violette, Lemon juice
- Gin & Gruit — Ale, Gin, Grapefruit bitters, Ginger syrup, Lemon juice
- The Andie Rose — Scotch, Rye, Bitters, Allspice Dram, Orgeat, Lemon juice, Egg white
- Charleston (L'Epicerie Tour d'Argent) — Gin, La Gauloise Verte, Elderflower liqueur, Lemon juice, Lemon peel
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