Best Summer Drinks
 

When the thermometer hits the high notes in summer, You need drinkable relief to make you cool and healthy. There is endless array of icy drinks available from stores, or you can make them at home. Whether you're hosting a summer dinner or having a barbecue, cold drinks help to make summer heat more bearable. I prefer fresh fruit juices in summer and mostly use lemonade and Gatorade. Lemon and sugar provides sweet and tart balance and good.

What is your drink of choice in summer days?

Beer. Chenin Blanc. Moscow Mules. Water. That's about all I drink during the summer months.

Chris

Limeade can be really refreshing, same with cold, lighter bodied beers.

Dry rose' wine isn't too bad with a variety of different foods.

Other than beer?

Anything in the Dark 'n' Stormy category (Partly Cloudy, Moscow Mule, etc...)

Agreed that a nice cold bottle of a dry rose is perfect for hot weather. Most roses are a little lower in alcohol which helps one stay cooler.

Just water. Either room temperature, or cold.




As a chaser to a Caipirinha, single malt whiskey, or good wine, of course.

Green tea and roasted barley tea (mugicha or unsweetened agua cebada) both ice cold.

Whilst I'd rather have my fill of tiger nut horchata and limón granizado (frozen lemon juice, sugar and water) these are too much of an indulgence to be drinking copious quantities of.

Another summer delight is home made gazpacho. Delicious as a drink and makes a meal into less of an ordeal in the hottest weather.

I finally got around to buying an icecream maker this year. I'm already stockpiling my freezer with unsweetened frozen juice sorbets/granitas to pull out at the height of the summer. Home pressed pomegranate sorbet has to be one of the most delicious drinks in the world. And slushed watermelon isn't far behind.

Chilled wines, especially Rose such as Chateau d'Esclans Whispering Angel and others. I also like chilled high quality Beaujolais wines such as Brouilly, which is wonderful as a chilled summer wine on a picnic, or simply for lunch or dinner outdoors (I do NOT drink Beaujolais Nouveau). Of course, I also enjoy many other red and white wines over the summer, chilled or otherwise.

For non alcoholic drinks, I like fresh homemade lemonade, tropical furit juices/smoothies, Iced Tea, and Iced coffe/ Iced cafe latte.

Margaritas, lemonade, ice tea (unsweetened), water. In order of preference.

A Bellini. Prosecco wine with freshly squeezed peach juice (white or yellow).

I love freshly-squeezed watermelon juice. No pulp, no seeds.

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Pimm's No.1 Cup with the usual lemonade and cucumber slices etc. No better summer drink...

Agree, Pimm's Cup. Also white sangria, and of course, Gin & Tonic!

An ice cold beer of course!

I also like a refreshing orange juice, cranberry juice and vodka drink which goes down very smoothly.

Gin and tonic!
White or rose wine
Champagne or sparkling wine
Water
Lemonade (especially with some fresh mint in it)