Refreshing Classic Drinks
With A Fresh Summer Twist
A cocktail in the summertime has a singular purpose: It must make you feel cool. Cool, like soft breezes, salty ocean spray, and the crisp air from AC units. Cool, like the hose water in that inflatable pool you may or may not have panic-purchased as you looked ahead to a summer spent in at least partial isolation.
That's the kind of cool Sangria brings to your evening, or a Julep with fresh mint.
These classic summer cocktail recipes are ideal for hot weather drinking. Master a handful—a Pineapple Mojito is particularly impressive and almost too drinkable when it's good—and you'll have yourself a happy hour cocktail menu stored in your brain.
So log off, shut down, or hang up. Depart the home office for your kitchen, back deck, or front drive, where you can nurse the cocktail you just mixed. And, as always, stay cool.
That's the kind of cool Sangria brings to your evening, or a Julep with fresh mint.
These classic summer cocktail recipes are ideal for hot weather drinking. Master a handful—a Pineapple Mojito is particularly impressive and almost too drinkable when it's good—and you'll have yourself a happy hour cocktail menu stored in your brain.
So log off, shut down, or hang up. Depart the home office for your kitchen, back deck, or front drive, where you can nurse the cocktail you just mixed. And, as always, stay cool.
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Lemonade Mint Julep
Ingredients: 2 ounces Kentucky Bourbon (like Woodford Reserve) 1 ounce simple syrup 1 ounce lemon juice fresh squeezed 4-5 Mint leaves muddled 1/2 cup Lemon sparkling water cold How to make it: In the bottom of a cocktail shaker, add the mint leaves and muddle. Fill the cocktail shaker with ice. Add the bourbon, simple syrup, and lemon juice. Fit the cocktail shaker with a tight-fitting lid and shake vigorously. Fill a glass with ice, and pour the cocktail over the ice. Top off the cocktail with the lemon sparkling water. Garnish glass with a lemon slice and mint sprig, if desired. Enjoy right away while cold. |
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Sweet Tea Sangria
Ingredients: 1 750-ml. bottle white wine, such as Sauvignon Blanc 4 c. sweet tea 1/4 c. triple sec 2 c. sliced frozen peaches 2 c. raspberries Fresh mint, for garnish How to make it: In a pitcher, combine wine, sweet tea, triple sec, frozen peaches and raspberries and stir until combined. Refrigerate until chilled. Serve garnished with mint. |
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Pineapple Mojito
Ingredients: • 1/4 cup pineapple, finely chopped • 5 mint leaves • 1 teaspoons sugar (or more depending on the sweetness of the pineapple) • 2 ounces white rum • juice from 1/4 lime • club soda for serving • wedges of pineapple and mint leaves for garnish How to make it: Place pineapple, mint leaves and sugar in a cocktail shaker and muddle with a cocktail muddler or handle of a wooden spoon. Add rum, lime juice and ice. Replace lid and shake until chilled. Strain cocktail into 2 ice filled glasses and top with club soda. Garnish with mint leaves and pineapple wedges. |