7 Refreshing Summer Cocktails Ideas to Impress Your Friends in 2019
When summer is only getting hotter, it’s a necessary step in life to learn some amazing recipes of refreshing cocktails to treat your friends!
Nexter.org gathered the coolest summer cocktail ideas.
Cucumber-Honeydew Freeze
Source:Â Â Wendell T. Webber
Ingredients:
- 1 lime wedge
- 8 ounces gin
- 2 cups chilled chopped peeled cucumber
- 2 cups chilled chopped honeydew melon
- 6 ounces fresh lemon juice
- 1 cup honey
- 5 cups ice
- Cucumber wheels and honeydew melon balls, for garnish
See the full recipe here.
Chasing Summer
Source:Â DAVID MALOSH
Ingredients:
- 4 ounces Chai Sun Tea (see Note)
- 3/4 ounce passion fruit puree or juice
- 1/2 ounce sweetened condensed milk
- 1/4 ounce balsamic vinegar
- Ice cubes, plus crushed ice for serving
See the full recipe here.
Manhattan Ice Cream Float
Source: Amy Sims
Ingredients:
- 2 pints vanilla ice cream, slightly softened
- 3 ounces bourbon
- 1/2 pint heavy cream
- 3/4 ounce sweet vermouth
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- Dash of Angostura bitters
- 1 liter cherry soda, or three 12-ounce bottles, chilled
- Maraschino cherries, for garnish
See the full recipe here.
Basil Limeade Slushies
Source: Â Martin Morrell
Ingredients:
- 8 cups ice
- 4 cups water
- 3 cups fresh lime juice
- 3 cups lightly packed basil leaves, plus basil sprigs, for garnish
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups soda water
See the full recipe here.
Tequila-Watermelon
Source:Â ADRIAN GAUT
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 chilled seedless watermelon (15 pounds), rind discarded and watermelon cubed (20 cups)
- 3/4 cup tequila blanco
- 6 limes, thinly sliced
- 3 mint sprigs, plus mint leaves for garnish
- Ice
- 1 bottle chilled Prosecco
See the full recipe here.
Tabernacle Crush
Source:Â John Kernick
Ingredients:
- 1/2 large peach, sliced
- 6 small basil leaves, plus more for garnish
- 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
- 1 1/2 ounces gin
- 1 ounce Lillet
- 1/2 ounce simple syrup
- Ice
- Club soda
See the full recipe here.
Jonn the Beachcomber
Source:Â John Kernick
Ingredients:
- 1 oz. light rum
- 1 oz. barrel-aged rum
- 1 oz. 151-proof rum (optional)
- 5 oz. allspice dram
- 5 oz. grenadine
- 75 oz. pineapple juice
- 5 oz. lime juice
See the full recipe here.
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