Does your country combine soda and alcohol to make any cocktails?

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1. Yes. American whiskeys like Jack Daniel’s and Jim Beam are popular here served with coca-cola. Rum likewise (things like Cpt. Morgan etc.) served with cola as well. Gin mixed with tonic water is another popular mixer. I don’t drink spirits anymore but those are the ones I’ve noticed a lot. That said, there are other spirits, like certain types of Scotch, that are usually meant to be drank straight.

   Beers and ciders: some people mix lemonade with beer to make a shandy (either bitter shandy or lager shandy). Some people mix lager and cider to make a Snakebite. Most beers however are usually drank straight, especially ales, and likewise with ciders.

2. It’s a very old drink and not so popular anymore, but you can mix beer and coke.

3. Vodka and redbull was the one me and my sister enjoyed the most when we were mid teens. I think that was the first time I turned cheap. It was like 7.5 euros for one and that was 15+ years ago.

   Wiskey and coke is also a common combination.

   While it certainly exist I wouldn’t call it common when it comes to alcoholic drinks. Most will be just beer and wine or pure hard drinks.

   Cocktails are more of a holiday thing.

4. Oh yes.

   Lonkero (Long Drink) can hardly be called a cocktail as it’s sold like beer and cider here. Basic long drinks are gin and grapefruit soda.

   Then ofc we have rum and whiskey colas and all kinds of energy drink abominations.

5. In the summer Romanians (older generations) mix wine with cold sparkling water – it is called șpriț (sounds like shpreetz).
   Younger generations mix rose or white wine with Sprite (so I’ve heard 😁)

6. Most common :

   Vodka and Orange juice(affordable)/Red Bull(overpriced AF)

   Red Wine and Coke/Kofola

   Gin and Tonic

   Rum and Coke

   Whiskey and Coke

   Etc…

7. Im Austria we mix a lot of alcohol with soda.Whisky/rum with coke, gin with tonic, vodka with red bull etc.

   Wie also mix white wine with carbonated water, called a Spritzer or Mischung, wine with Almdudler (a herbal soda).

   Aperitives like Aperol, Lillet, Hugo etc are also very common here.

   Edit: forgot Radler, that’s beer with lemon/orange soda or Almdudler.

8. It’s Schützenfest season and a lot of people are getting blackout drunk on Korn und Cola.

   (A Schützenfest is a traditional town fair surrounding what used to be the annual shooting competition of the guards. Korn is the Germanic word for grain, but English got the word grain from the French. Korn a spirit made from rye and wheat, sometimes some barley and buckwheat.)

9. Yes, although I think it’s more prevalent with youth. Not counting classics like rum and coke, I can’t remember seeing someone over 25 mixing something like a [*filur*](https://shake-it.dk/drink/filur/) or [*isbjørn*](https://shake-it.dk/drink/isbjoern-drink/)

10. Rum and coke is a thing, was more popular 10-15 years ago than nowadays, but it’s still done sometimes.

    Of course, quite some drinks are made from gin and some non-alcoholic fizzy thing, but usually people use the tonic water / soda water type of a thing usual for long drinks and not an actual kids sweet lemonade / fizzy drink type of a thing. Though some of them can have an unusually strong taste, like the grapefruit one. Simpler ones are way more popular, though.

    Aperol spritz (or Campari spritz) and (white) wine spritz are also common, but these all normally use just carbonated water, not a lemonade. Maaaybe a really light taste tonic water thing, if you feel like it.

11. We mix white wine with local mineral water and call it špricer (probably from German Spritz, although Austrian versions I’ve seen also contained something sweet).

12. It’s the default in Spain. Everything else (except maybe mojitos) are fancy cocktails that you get in fancy places.

13. Not sure what’s popular nowadays in the Netherlands, but you can mix just about anything with Coke or Sprite, but my fav. isn’t a soda, but Orange Juice with Pisang Ambon, though 7up and Pisang Ambon is nice as well.

14. Gemišt is white wine and sparkling water, I think it’s called spritzer in German. Bambus is red wine and coke. We don’t call these cocktails though.

    But we also have classic drinks like rum and coke and gin tonic.

15. Have a look on Kalimotxo, also here the one you said is Ron-cola

16. Wodka-Ahoj

    Take Ahoj brand sherbet powder on your tongue and down it with a shot of vodka. Comes in raspberry, orange, lemon, and woodruff flavor. Oh, and primes you favourably.

17. We mix vodka with anything. Soda, juice, energy drinks etc.

18. I wouldn’t call these cocktails, but it I would say it is very common to mix alcohol with soda. When I was in high school, these were very popular:

    – Bambus (red wine mixed with Coca-Cola) and
    – Miš maš (white wine mixed with Green Ora – a kiwi tasting soda)
    – Diesel (beer mixed with Coca-Cola)

    I don’t know if you can still get them in bars, but Rum-Cola or Whiskey-Cola, I’m pretty sure you can.
    If Red Bull counts as a soda, then vodka Red Bull is another one.

    Gin tonic is the common cocktail, but gin mixed with Sprite just tastes much better to me.

    For a wild party experience, you can take a bigger glass and replace soda with beer sometimes: tequila boom boom with beer instead of Sprite.

19. Ireland:

    Most pubs will have white and red lemonade on the counter that will be mixed with vodka for a “vodka red” or “vodka white”

20. In Romania, among teenagers(only at parties), it s very common to drink vodka mixed with apple/orange juice or shots of vodka and sprite, maybe rum+coke, but most of the times, we choose vodka instead of any other drink))

21. We absolutely do Rum and Coke, also Gin Tonic is a popular one across Europe

22. We have something called *fjellbekk* (mountain stream) with Sprite, aquavit, and a splash of orange liqueur. I haven’t had one for ages though.