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)

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 rosé 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 :mad:! So I keep adding ice to it. Probably just as well to keep it diluted.

I'll have what you're having, except for the G&T. Hate gin, but love a nice V&T

With alcohol - Pimm's Cup
Without alcohol - menthe a l'eau or limonana

My non-alcohol favorite: Fresh lemonade, made with Meyer lemons (and some "zest" thereof) and Demerera (no longer from "Demerara") or other "raw" sugar. If making in small amounts for immediate service, water "con gaz" livens up the drink. With a lemon slice and fresh mint as garnishes, presents well and satisfies.

Summer is the only time I will indulge in a Strawberries and Creme Frapuccino from Starbucks made with skim milk. It's not alcoholic, and one of the few things I buy from there. Otherwise I also like those chilled waters flavored with fresh fruit in the hotel lobbies. I can't bring myself to make a whole pitcher of that stuff at home. The flavored water just tastes better when sipped in an air conditioned lobby.

So many Pimm's #1 fans...
 

...that I had to give it a go.

I found a recipe that called for:

1 part Pimm's #1
3 parts lemonade
mint
cucumber slices
orange slices
sliced strawberries

But, I actually only used 1/2 part Pimm's #1. Not sure I could handle a full part.

It turned out to be very tasty, but probably not something I'll do all that often.

Best regards,

William R. Sanders
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

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Great summer drink (grabbed from IKEA)...

One serving:

1.5oz vodka
.75oz Fläder saft (a.k.a. elderberry, can get a bottle from IKEA)
8oz tonic water
Lime slices
Ice

Served it at an outdoor party (102°F that day) to rave reviews.

My wife's new favorite summer drink is Vodka, Pellegrino Limonata with a couple slices from a frozen peach.

My favorite is a concoction I invented myself...well, I think I invented it. It may be on a bar menu somewhere, but I haven't seen it yet...

Raspberry Lemonade (preferably the "Simply Lemonade with Raspberry" brand)
Cherry Lemonade Vodka (I've only found this flavor in the Pinnacle lineup)
Triple Sec

I usually free pour, but when I measure it's roughly 6 -10 oz. lemonade (that's *always* free pour), 1.5 - 2 oz. vodka, 1.5 - 2 oz. triple sec. It honestly depends on the size of the glass I'm putting it in, too...but I usually reach for my pint glasses.

I love drinking homemade wine coolers in the summer. Rose, lemon lime soda, and lots of fresh fruit. They are totally trashy but, I've hooked more than one person. White wine sangria and Gin and tonics are another favorite. And a tacate if I'm at the river.

My fav is the Pimm's cup... Anvil bar in Houston makes a great rendition of it