13 Drinks for summer

1 – Spiked Pink Lemonade

1 bottle (750 ml) vodka or gin
5 cups lemonade
2 cups cranberry juice
3 cups ginger ale

Mix, drink. Share with friends, or you’re going to be feeling this one tomorrow!

2 – Iish Mojito

1 1/2 oz. Jameson’s Irish Whiskey
3 lime wedges
1 tsp white sugar
1/2 oz. simple syrup
splash fresh squeezed lime juice
5 dashes mint bitters
splash of Moet & Chandon Champagne

Muddle the lime wedges, lime juice, white sugar, simple syrup, and mint bitters in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and Jameson’s. Shake and pour into an ice-filled double rocks glass. Top with champagne.

3 – The Manhattan

2 oz. Bourbon
1/2 oz. Sweet Vermouth
5 dashes of Pogash’s Bitters
Garnish: fresh black cherry

Add ingredients to a silver cocktail shaker and stir 30 times. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with cherry.

4 – Michelob Ultra Fruit Infused beers

The Lime Cactus was my favorite, but all three were (shockingly) yummy. Very summery, great pool beer! Not for the beer purist.

5 – Pat O’Brien’s Hurricane

1 1/2 oz. light rum
1 1/2 oz. dark rum
1 oz. fresh orange juice
1 oz. fresh lemon juice (or fresh lime juice)
2 oz. passion fruit juice
1/2 oz. simple syrup grenadine to taste
1 maraschino cherry, for garnish
1 orange wheel, for garnish

6 – Apple Martini

1 part Vodka (Absolut)
1 part Sour Apple schnapps (Pucker)
1 part Apple juice

Pour all ingredients into a shaker. Shake well and strain into a Martini glass.

7 – Water. Filtered, from my tap.

8 – Perfect Pina Colada

- 2 oz Light Rum
- 5 oz Pineapple Juice
- 2 oz Coconut Cream
- 1 cup Crushed Ice
- Garnish: Cherry, Pineapple

Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend at high speed. Pour into a collins glass and garnish with fruits.

9 – Key Lime Daiquiri (Fruit of choice, but lime is so very yummy.)

Key Lime Juice 1/2 oz
Sugar 1 tsp
Rum, light 1 oz
Cracked ice as needed

Combine all ingredients and shake with cracked ice until blended. Strain into cocktail glass. May also be blended with ice to create a Frozen Daiquiri.

10 – Banana Frost

1 1/2 oz Dark Rum
1/2 oz Banana Liqueur
2 scoop Vanilla Ice Cream
1 Medium Banana

Blend until smooth

11 – Iced coffee

Half cup coffee concentrate
Cup of milk
half tablespoon splenda

pour over ice, stir

12 – Corona, with lime

13 – Frozen Mudslide

1 oz Vodka
1 oz Baileys
1 oz Kahlúa
5 ice cubes
2 scoopes of a really good vanilla ice cream
For decoration: chocolate sauce

Mix all the ingredients in a blender. Coat the inside of a glass with swirls of chocolate sauce. Pour the drink into the glass. Serve and enjoy.

How about you – do you have a favorite summer drink recipe?

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