A wedge cut from a lemon, used as a garnish that can also be squeezed by the drinker to adjust acidity. It is a standard garnish for many sour-style and highball cocktails.

A Kentucky-style highball where bourbon's vanilla and oak meet the snap of ginger beer and bright lemon, a warm-weather cousin to the Mule and the Whiskey Sour.

Bourbon Buck

An American porch classic lengthening bourbon with lemon juice, sugar, and soda for a tall, tart, lightly honeyed sipper made for warm evenings.

Bourbon Lemonade

A silkier take on the Buck family where brandy's grape warmth rounds out lemon and fiery ginger beer for a long drink that drinks like polished autumn fruit.

Brandy Buck

A 19th-century daisy built on brandy with orange liqueur, lemon, and a tint of grenadine, lengthened with soda for a fruity, amber-toned classic cooler.

Brandy Daisy

A classic 1930s rye highball with a citrus twist — rye whiskey shaken with lemon and sugar, then topped with ginger ale in a tall glass. Named for the era's telegraph cables, it's a bright, gingery cousin of the Whiskey Sour built long.

Cablegram

Cognac's stone fruit and oak flavors shine in the classic sour template with egg white foam and Angostura bitters.

Cognac Sour

A floral spin on the gin Collins laced with St-Germain, yielding a tall, bubbly glass that lifts lemon and juniper with delicate elderflower perfume and garden-bright finish.

Elderflower Collins

A Prohibition-era gin sour elevated by Angostura bitters — the bitters round off the bright lemon-sugar balance and add a layer of spice, making it a more complex and satisfying sour than most of its contemporaries.

Fitzgerald

A botanically charged take on lemonade, where juniper-forward gin meets lemon and sugar before being topped with soda for a bright, dry-finishing cooler.

Gin Lemonade

A classic Prohibition-era cooler that lets apple brandy shine — shaken with lemon and sugar, then topped with ginger ale in a tall glass. Crisp apple character, gentle spice from the ginger ale, and citrus brightness make it a supremely drinkable long drink.

Harvard Cooler

A Bee's Knees-adjacent bourbon sour that swaps simple syrup entirely for honey syrup — the honey's floral sweetness and viscosity create a richer, more golden version of the classic sour with a beautiful silky foam.

Honey Sour

A Long Island-born 1970s powerhouse stacking five white spirits with lemon and a cola top, engineered to taste deceptively like iced tea while hitting like nothing of the sort.

Long Island Iced Tea

Mezcal's smoky character meets fizz effervescence in this long egg-white drink -- smoke, citrus, and cream float atop soda water.

Mezcal Fizz

A smoky-sweet highball that pairs Scotch whisky's malt character with lemon and ginger beer, giving the spirit a long, zippy, fireside-meets-summer-porch feel.

Scotch Buck

Scotch whisky transforms the classic Daisy template -- lemon, orange Curacao, and grenadine bring a fruity balance to Scotch's smoke and malt.

Scotch Daisy

The Scottish solution to the Scotch and Soda — ginger ale's warm spice and sweetness complement Scotch's malt and smoke far better than plain soda water, while the lemon's acidity keeps the sweetness in check.

Scotch and Ginger

Vodka's clean neutrality lets the citrus, orange liqueur, and grenadine shine in this refreshing Daisy riff topped with a splash of soda.

Vodka Daisy

A breezy spiked-lemonade highball where vodka joins fresh lemon, sugar, and soda for a clean, thirst-quenching drink that leans entirely on citrus for character.

Vodka Lemonade

The classic Daisy format -- spirit, citrus, orange liqueur, grenadine -- applied to rye whiskey and topped with a splash of soda.

Whiskey Daisy

A two-ingredient classic of bourbon and ice-cold soda over a tall column of ice, stripped down so that the whiskey's vanilla and oak speak through the bubbles.

Whiskey Highball

A porch-worthy long drink of whiskey and fresh lemonade topped with soda, delivering bourbon warmth under bright lemon sweetness in the easiest summer-sipper format.

Lemon Wedge