Best Cocktails for Hot Days
The warmer and longer days of summer call for fruity tropical cocktails, poolside sippers, and recipes that take advantage of seasonal produce like peaches, citrus, and even watermelon. Here are some cocktails you’ll want to sip throughout the rest of summer.
Cheeky Peach
To create this fruity summer sipper, all you need is vodka, peach schnapps, pineapple juice, and a little mint so you can always party like it’s the middle of August.
Ingredients
2 ounces vodka
½ ounce peach schnapps
1 ounce pineapple juice
½ ounce simple syrup
2 dashes bitters
5 mint leaves
Club soda, chilled, to top
Garnish: mint sprig
Directions
Add the vodka, peach schnapps, pineapple juice, simple syrup, bitters and mint leaves to a shaker with cubed ice; shake until well-chilled.
Double-strain into a double rocks glass over crushed ice; top with the club soda.
Garnish with a mint sprig.
Summer Tonic
Tonic is most associated with gin and vodka, but try adding a twist of fun with rum this summer. This gin & tonic-inspired cooling cocktail is a delicious mix of rum, bitter amaro, lemon juice, and tonic water, full of exquisite botanical flavors.
Ingredients
1-½ ounces Mount Gay rum
1 ounce bitter amaro
½ ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
4 ounces Fever-Tree aromatic tonic water, chilled, to top
Garnish: rosemary sprig
Directions
Fill a large snifter with ice; add the rum, amaro, and lemon juice.
Top with the tonic water; stir briefly and gently to combine.
Garnish with a rosemary sprig.
Gin Buck
Popular in the 1920s, this summer cooler is roaring back 100 years later. Simply combine gin and lemon or lime juice in a Collins glass, then top with ginger ale and garnish with a citrus wedge - perfect for enjoying under the summer sun.
Ingredients
1-½ ounces gin
½ ounce lemon or lime juice, freshly squeezed
Ginger ale or ginger beer, to top
Garnish: lemon or lime wedge
Directions
Fill a Collins glass with ice, then add the gin and lemon or lime juice.
Top with ginger ale or ginger beer; stir briefly to combine.
Garnish with a lemon or lime wedge.
Tequila Mockingbird
Yes, we know this is a liquor and literary pun, but this concoction is perfect for enjoying a good read on your backyard deck. This fragrant, bright red cocktail laced with electrolytes is a welcome and spicy twist on the traditional margarita.
Ingredients
1 slice jalapeño
3 watermelon cubes (each about 1 inch cubed)
2 ounces silver tequila
¾ ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
¾ ounce agave syrup
Directions
Muddle the jalapeño slice and watermelon cubes in a shaker to extract the juices.
Add tequila, lime juice, agave syrup and ice; shake until well-chilled.
Fine-strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
Summer Rye
Who says you can’t drink rye whiskey in the summer? This refreshing whiskey cocktail combines rye’s bold and spicy notes with the tartness of lemon and sweetness of apple juice.
Ingredients
1-½ ounce Sazerac rye whiskey
¾ ounce elderflower liqueur
¼ ounce simple syrup
¾ ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1 ounce apple juice
Champagne, chilled, to top (approximately ¾ ounce)
Garnish: apple cubes
Directions
Add the rye whiskey, elderflower liqueur, simple syrup, lemon juice and apple juice to a shaker with ice; shake until well-chilled.
Double-strain into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice; top with the champagne.
Garnish with diced apple cubes.
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Sources
https://www.delicious.com.au/recipes/collections/gallery/30-cool-drinks-for-hot-days/h1dvzfyc
https://advancedmixology.com/blogs/art-of-mixology/ice-cold-summer-cocktail
https://www.eatwell101.com/summer-cocktail-ideas
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