Summer cocktail recipes please?!
Summer cocktail recipes please?
I was watching Oprah yesterday, and she talked about the Tangerita, this new summer cocktail she invented (fresh squeezed tangerines, tequila, and triple sec). It got me thinking... what are some other great cocktails for summer, and how do you make them?
Additional Details3 weeks ago
I'd love to throw a cocktail party this summer; but I'm fairly new to playing bartender. Any ideas will be a big help; thanks!
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3 weeks ago
I'd love to throw a cocktail party this summer; but I'm fairly new to playing bartender. Any ideas will be a big help; thanks!
Here are some refreshing & tasty cocktails all of varying colors, I have included, blue, white, yellow, red, & green....
Blue Whale
1 part vodka
1 part Blue Curacao liqueur
1 part orange juice
1 part pineapple juice
1 part sweet and sour mix
Pour ingredients over ice and mix in a shaker. Strain into a tall glass, and serve. Serve in a Collins glass (which is tall and cylindrical w/ even sides)
Mojito
3 fresh mint sprigs
2 tsp sugar
3 tbsp fresh lime juice
1 1/2 oz light rum
club soda
In a tall thin glass, crush part of the mint with a fork to coat the inside. Add the sugar and lime juice and stir thoroughly. Top with ice. Add rum and mix. Top off with *chilled* club soda (or seltzer). Add a lime slice and the remaining mint, and serve.
Absolut Lemonade Punch
15 oz Absolut? vodka
7 1/2 oz triple sec
7 oz 7-Up? soda
4 oz lemon juice
1 lemon
sweet and sour mix
1/2 - 1 cup sugar
1/8 oz grenadine syrup
Pour vodka, triple sec, 7-up, and lemon juice into a 64 ounce container. Slice a lemon, add, then almost-fill with sweet and sour mix. Add sugar and a touch of grenadine, and shake well. Serve into highball glasses. Stir or shake well with each serving to circulate the sugar.
RUM PUNCH
Splash of lemon juice
2 Cups Cruzan light rum
2 liters ginger ale
1 qt. fruit punch
1 qt. orange juice or pineapple juice
Ice cubes
Pour into punch bowl. Stir well. To serve: pour over one ice cube in each glass.
ALOE VERA
Ingredients:
40 ml (1/3 oz) lemon - infused vodka, such as Absolut Citron.
30 ml (1 oz) Midori melon liqeur.
40 ml (1/3 oz) sweet - and - sour mix.
20 ml (2/3 oz) Rose’s lime cordial.
soda water to fill.
Equipment:
Highball glass, stirring spoon.
Fill the glass with ice, pour in everything except the soda, and stir well. Fill with soda. Serve with a thin slice of lime, and a straw if you wish.
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Good luck, enjoy & I hope I helped!
Be creative and have fun!
This is nothing fancy, but I like cold diet 7-up and flavored vodka (Absolut Pear is AMAZING, and I'm dying to try the new Stoli Blueberry) - it's easy,yummy, and refreshing.
Good Summer Cocktails.
The Gin & Tonic: always a refreshing summer classic. Use good quality gin (Beefeater or Bombay), and fresh limes, and it's hit.
A favorite for me and my friends is the Dark and Stormy.
Ingredients:
Black Rum (Gosling's Black Seal or Myer's)
Ginger Beer (Goya or Stewarts)
Limes
Ice
Fill a glass with ice
Pour in a couple shots of rum
Squeeze Half a lime over it
Fill the glass with ginger beer
Stir and enjoy.
These can also be made by the pitcher.
I don't have a name for it but we love fizzy lemonade (pellegrino limonata works really well) with gin. If we want to get really fancy, we splash a little blue curacao in it.
mmmmm.
any coctails with citrus in them are most refreshing for summer i guess
Long Island Iced Tea
3/4 oz tequila
3/4 oz rum
3/4 oz gin
3/4 oz vodka
3/4 oz triple sec
3/4 oz sour mix
splash cola
Mojito Classic
1 1/2 oz Cuban light rum
handful fresh mint sprigs
dash gomme syrup
1/2 lime
soda water
Pina Colada
2 oz light rum
3 oz pineapple juice
2 oz Coco Lopez coconut cream
ice
Mexican Paloma: Tequila with grapefruit (toronja) soda (normally available in the mexican aisle of most grocery stores)
Spanish Tinto de Verano: If you can find the fizzy lemon the other gal recommends add inexpensive (but not heinous) red wine to it in equal parts.
Both: Easy and delicous.
This is my favorite (it has no name -- it's something I made up):
1 part Vodka (Kettle One, Stoli, Belvedere)
1 part Malibu Rum
2.5 parts Loza Tropical juice (or a mixture of orange, pineapple, guava and mango juices)
Fresh lime juice to taste