Simple Homemade Sweet and Sour Mix Recipe

Level up your craft cocktail game with the Best Homemade Sweet and Sour Mix for Drinks Recipe. This easy lemon-lime flavor bomb is perfect for so many classic cocktails and drinks. Whether you are working on your perfect margarita, a whisky sour, or just want a fresh DIY sour mix, this drink mixer is for you!

🍹 What makes this recipe special?

Who doesn’t like fresh ingredients? This recipe is easy, quick, and helps you make a quality sweet and sour drink mix for any number of classic cocktails. Maybe an amaretto sour, Tom Collins, or just an easy drink mixer for tequila, vodka, whisky, rum, or most straight spirits. 

Some vodka, sweet and sour mix, and a bit of soda water is a great simple cocktail, but the combinations are endless. One thing that is great about this is that you can prepare it beforehand and keep it in the fridge for when you want your next drink. 

I made this specifically for my Appletini Cocktail, but it can be used for so much more. While I tend to use fresh lime for my classic margarita recipe, you could definitely use this as a mix to make it quicker. 

🍋 Ingredients

The ingredients for this DIY cocktail mix are straightforward. It is a simple syrup where we add lemon and lime.

• sugar
• water
• lemon
• lime

Different fruits are going to have different amounts of juice in them, so you may need to adjust your quantities. Also, I understand buying the big bag of random lemons and limes, but buy good fruit for the best outcome. 

See the recipe card for quantities.

🍲 Instructions

This is as easy as heating up some sugar and water until they are dissolved together. Then, add the lemon juice and lime juice. 

Bottle (or mason jar) up your freshly minted sweet and sour mix and put in the fridge for up to a month. When you serve it up, just shake a bit to make sure things are well combined and use.

🤷 Substitutions and variations

You can change this up however you like

• Lemons – If you like more lemon flavor, add more lemons. If you do not, remove it and use more lime.
• Lime – Similar thing for limes. Use more or less!
• Other citrus – I have not experimented with this specific recipe, but I imagine you could use almost any citrus juice in a recipe like this if you wanted to get creative.
• Sweetener – Maybe try honey for a unique flavor. Substitute this 1:1 with the sugar. 
• Herbs – Maybe add some fresh rosemary or thyme to mix it up.

📦 Storage

Once you have this in your containers, place this home made sour mix in the refrigerator and use it as you need. This should last about a month if you are keeping it appropriately. 

❓ FAQ

📝 Tips and tricks

• While you can juice by hand, purchasing a hand juicer makes this so much easier. 
• This recipe can be halved or doubled very easy!

🛠 Products used in this recipe

• Hand Juicer
• Saucepan
• Mason Jars