15 Fantastic Club Soda Cocktails

One of the most famous club soda cocktails is the Tom Collins! This tall, ice-cold gin sour has been around since the 1870's, and it's sweet, tart, and effervescent. Shake gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup together, then top with soda water and don't skip the cherry garnish.

Ingredients: Gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, club soda

If there's a cocktail that made me fall in love with club soda as a mixer, it's the classic Mojito. This iconic Cuban drink is one of the greats, popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the 1930's. Here’s a recipe for it that’s spot on perfection: not too sweet, bubbly, and minty fresh. It has less sugar and more nuance than what it’s become in bars and pre-made mixes.

Ingredients: Mint, white rum, simple syrup, club soda

The Gin Rickey is beyond simple: no fuss, just gin, lime, and club soda in a glass of ice. This classic cocktail was born in the 1880s and has been popular ever since for its tangy, bubbly, and delicious flavor. If you love a Vodka Soda or a Gin and Tonic: this is the drink for you!

Ingredients: Gin, club soda, lime

Here’s a club soda cocktail that’s light, refreshing, and goes down easy: the Vodka Soda! Cousin to the Vodka Tonic, the vodka soda is even more tart and refreshing. Just lime, vodka and club soda make the best bubbly combination!

Ingredients: Vodka, lime, club soda

Another popular club soda cocktail is the classic Gin Fizz. The first printed recipe was in an 1876 cocktail book, and the drink rose to popularity in the 1900’s. It’s a textbook sour cocktail that includes citrus, liquor and sweetener. An egg white is the magic behind that classic frothy foam topping!

Ingredients: Gin, lemon, simple syrup, egg white, soda water

Here’s a refreshing club soda cocktail that’s so easy, you only need 1 minute. Yes, it really is that simple: meet the Tequila Soda! Cousin of the Vodka Soda and Gin Rickey, this drink pairs tequila and soda water for a refreshing, bubbly highball cocktail. It’s one that’s perfect for sipping on the patio, or to mix up when impromptu visitors drop by.

Ingredients: Tequila, lime, club soda

A Southside is a classy cocktail made with mint, lemon, lime, and gin. The best way to describe it is a Mojito with gin! The Fizz version of it adds club soda, so it's also similar to a Tom Collins. The oldest known printed recipe called “Southside” was from 1917. 

Ingredients: Gin, lemon juice, lime juice, mint, club soda

Here’s a refreshing way to drink your favorite whiskey: the classic Whiskey Highball! This two-ingredient cocktail originated around the turn of the 20th century and it’s still popular to this day. Why? It’s so easy to make: no cocktail shakers or fancy ingredients required! The whiskey highball initially combined Scotch whiskey with soda water, called “scotch and soda.”

Ingredients: Whiskey, club soda

A wine spritzer is a drink made with wine and soda water (aka club soda), that originated in Austria. Diluting wine with water started back in the 19th century, as a way to make bubbly wine. The name comes from the German word “spritzen,” meaning “to spray.” Try one of the wine spritzer recipes below!

Wine spritzers
White Wine Spritzer
Red Wine Spritzer
Rosé Spritzer

Ingredients: Wine, club soda

You can also make a spritzer with vodka: try this bubbly and fruity Vodka Spritzer! It’s just sweet enough with a subtle berry flavor: tangy, refreshing and sparkling all at once. That’s cranberry juice that makes the brilliant red color, but it’s 100% juice so it’s tart and crisp instead of saccharine. 

Ingredients: Vodka, club soda, cranberry juice, simple syrup, strawberries, lemon

The spritz is also a club soda cocktail: and different from a spritzer all together! The spritz was invented back in the 1800’s in Italy as a way to water down sparkling wine by mixing in…well, water! It wasn’t until the 1950’s that the Aperol spritz took the form it has today, with Aperol, club soda and Prosecco. Bubbly, citrusy, herbal, subtly bitter and lightly sweet…it’s the most classic bubbly mixed drink of them all. You can also make a spritz with other types of liquor.

Spritz recipes
Aperol Spritz
Campari Spritz
Limoncello Spritz
Lillet Spritz
St Germain Spritz
Amaro Spritz

Ingredients: Sparkling wine, club soda, Aperol

If you love bubbly spritzes, run don’t walk to try the Hugo! This Italian cocktail is a spin-off on the Aperol spritz and even better, in our opinion. It’s made with delicate floral elderflower liqueur and bubbly Prosecco, which compliment each other perfectly.

Ingredients: St Germain elderflower liqueur, Prosecco, club soda, mint

Ranch Water has become so popular, it deserves a mention here! Essentially a tequila highball made with lime juice and club soda (or really, Topo Chico sparkling mineral water if you're a purist). It’s like a bubbly, lighter version of the classic margarita, with all the tangy lime but less sweetness and booze.

Ingredients: Tequila, club soda or Topo Chico, lime

Here’s another classic club soda cocktail that’s perfect for summer afternoons: the Americano! It’s the original inspiration for the Negroni and is even better, in our opinion. It’s bitter, complex and bubbly all at once! Starring Campari and vermouth, it’s both sophisticated and carefree at the same time. Also try: Campari and Soda

Ingredients: Campari, sweet vermouth, club soda

Here’s a 1980’s club soda cocktail with a name that makes it sound deceptively potent: the Mind Eraser! This it’s a bubbly and refreshing coffee cocktail, beautifully layered in a glass. Essentially a fizzy Black Russian, it’s also fairly low alcohol for a cocktail. For all its bravado, it’s really not about to erase your mind…unless you drink several of these, which we find impossible given the high sugar content.

Ingredients: Kahlua, vodka, club soda