Sweet tea vodka and lemonade, strawberry basil martini, mimosas, chilled rose

My 2-cents:

- Cold Orange Juice (plain or mixed with sparkling wine/champagne)

- Iced Tea v(sweetened)
- Coca Cola poured over a glass full of shaved ice
- A tall glass filled with ice cubes and regular tap water

- Mojito
- Caipirinha
- A straight-from-the-freezer pint (or twelve) of Warsteiner

No alcohol?

(1) Squeeze a lemon
(2) Torani Sugar Free Watermelon Syrup
(3) Fizzy water
(4) Ice.

Alcohol?

Add (5) vodka to (1)(2)(3) and (4).

Agreed. Beach + sun + rose = summer

A pastis tastes a lot better in the summer in my view, any ros� or cocktail is also nice though or a decent white wine.

Iced tea with a shot of amaretto in it is a pretty great summer-time drink.

Green tea, 1 can frozen limeade, a little sugar, rum. Freeze. Scoop out frozen mixture and pour any lemon-lime soda on top. Yum-O!

Good iced tea with fresh lime...summer is great for lemons/limes in Texas as fresh fruit arrives from the Rio Grande Valley....

Best of all if alcohol is not needed is a cold glass of ice water with fresh lime...sort of like a limeade w/o the sugar....fresh squeezed juices also are nice...

If alcohol is required, nothing beats a killer frozen margarita/mojito and Austin has some doozies for great ones...personally, I do not need the top shelf tequilas to enjoy a frozen margarita (or, on the rocks) and mojitos though I have had a few made WITH to shelf's that are plenty tasty as well, but still do not justify the extra $$$...as far as beer goes, the best I can deal with are dark Mexican beers (Negro Modelo for example)...sadly my serious beer drinking days are far behind be...

Smoothies are always a good bet....frozen fruit is available year round...they can also serve as a meal when the thermometer starts to climb....

Now, for the fast food solutions...Sonic has great malts/shakes....Whataburger also makes great shakes and a Texas institution called Dairy Queen offers great tea as well as shakes....

On the po' side (and maybe disgusting to some) is a Coke/Cherry Slurpee (mixed half & half) from 7-11!!! hahahahaha

Cheers,

Any number of brands of Cider, or Tuscan Lemonade (limoncello, lemon vodka, and lemonade).

I tend to go for anything with rum like a mojito or my favorite, a rum and tonic. For a rum and tonic to work it needs to be a dark, non-spiced rum. Meyers is a good choice that most bars have anywhere in the US.

All hail the lost Raj, the minions of which were dispatched to torrid and feverish climes, their lives preserved by Gin & Tonic with a bit of lime, fighting malaria, scurvy and the pestilential heat.

Iced tea (unsweetened)
Iced tea (with lemon and a little sweetnlow)
Ice water with lemon
Coca Cola (not diet, real sugar when I can find it)

G & T
Vodka Soda
Mojito
Champagne
Rose

Couldn't say it any better, was one of the great things at the Westin Bund Center!

Aside from that, cold beer, Cruzan strawberry lemonades, also a fan of nice cold Vinho Verde

I found one a few weeks ago in Vegas with the weather around 100F.

The oreo frozen hot chocolate at serendipity 3.

I know it's nothing new for most but first time I'd had it after wanting to try it for years, and it lived up to the hype!

For me, G&T is the most chilling and refreshing alcholic drink for hot weather. Second is Pimm's, with ginger ale, or lemon-lime soda, with cucumber if I have it.

Best nonalcoholic drink for hot days, large icy cold glasses of carbonated water. Polish sparkling water's always on sale around here cheap.

Chilled white wine is my next choice but it won't stay chilled in this weather ! So I keep adding ice to it. Probably just as well to keep it diluted.