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Are the chiefs playing? Make this Kansas City Ice Water for your next football gathering to celebrate the game – it’s a refreshing lemon lime cocktail with vodka and gin and it’s so good.
The Kansas City Ice Water recipe has been passed down for decades from Kansas City, Missouri and it is a very popular cocktail. It’s a fresh ice water cocktail, perfect for a party or summer days with three kinds of liquor and tons of delicious citrus flavors. It’s got a base of vodka along with gin, lime juice, lemon lime soda, and triple sec.
Ingredients Needed
- Gin: Dry gin is a classic ingredient for this drink – use your favorite brand
- Vodka: The perfect bridge from the gin to the triple sec – use your favorite brand
- Lime Juice: You could use store-bought or fresh lime juice
- Triple Sec: This is orange liqueur with lots of orange flavor
- Lemon-Lime Soda: Use your favorite brand
How to Make Kansas City Ice Water
- Add ice to a highball glass (you can also use an old-fashioned glass or chilled pint glass).
- Add all ingredients to your glass, stir carefully.
- Garnish with lemon and lime slices (or lime a lime wedge).
Expert Tips
- Lemon Lime Soda adds sweet soda to the drink so you could use diet or swap in sparkling water, soda water, or club soda. It’s perfect for hot summer days.
- This drink is best served chilled immediately after being made.
- I recommend serving this in a chilled glass.
FAQs
How do you make KC’s water for a crowd?
Mix all the ingredients except the soda and chill, then add the soda just before serving. You can easily scale up this recipe.
KC Ice Water Recipe
This refreshing lemon and gin drink is the perfect one for your next sporting event get together – especially if the chiefs are playing.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 ounce gin
- 1 ounce vodka
- ½ ounce lime juice
- ½ ounce triple sec
- 3 ounces lemon lime soda
Instructions
- Add ice to a chilled highball glass.
- Add all ingredients to your glass, stir carefully.
- Garnish with lemon and lime slices.
Recipe Notes
- You can use regular or diet soda, or club soda or even lime sparkling water.
- To make this for a crowd you can multiply by 8 for 8 servings: 1 cup gin, 1 cup vodka, 1/2 cup each lime juice and triple sec and 3 cups soda.
Recipe Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 213kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 0.1g | Fat: 0.1g | Saturated Fat: 0.02g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.01g | Sodium: 10mg | Potassium: 23mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 7IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 0.1mg
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate
