We love the summer, but for real, sometimes it’s too hot! But don’t worry, we’re here for you with the ultimate summer guide on how to stay cool for the rest of the season. Say goodbye to sugary sodas and dense processed drinks.
This summer, we’re drinking fresh, vibrant, creative, and delicious drinks that will not only cool you down but excite your taste buds as well. Are you ready for the refreshing ice-cold goodness!
Here are the top 10 drinks for summer to keep you cool and energized all summer long.
1. Watermelon Breeze
Arguably, nothing else is more synonymous with summer than a succulent red watermelon. Watermelon summer drinks are the classic for a reason: they are so hydrating and naturally sweet that they give an incredibly invigorating feeling. So let’s just say this Watermelon Breeze is about maximizing your enjoyment of this summer fruit.
Why You Will Love It: Lighter, more hydrating, and so perfectly balanced between flavor and refreshment. It comes together in no time.
Recipe
Ingredient
- 4 cups cubed seedless watermelon
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- Optional: Fresh mint sprigs for garnish
How to Prepare
- In a blender, combine the watermelon cubes, water, and lime juice.
- Blend until perfectly smooth.
- Strain through a fine-mesh sieve to remove any pulp (optional, but recommended for a smoother drink).
- Pour into glasses filled with ice.
- Garnish with mint sprigs, if desired.
2. Strawberry Sunshine Spritzer
These bright red fruits are full of Vitamin C and bursting with sweet-and-tart flavor. Strawberry summer drinks are a nice way of welcoming this summer fruit into the cooling arsenal. This Strawberry Sunshine Spritzer is light, bubbly, and utterly irresistible.
What You Love about It: A light and bubbly spritzer is perfect for a hot afternoon. Seriously, the strawberry-sparkling water combination is just so refreshing and satisfying.
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh strawberries, cleaned and sliced
- 1/4 cup of lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons of honey or agave syrup or more (to taste)
- Sparkling water or club soda
How to Prepare
- Blend the strawberries, lemon juice, and honey/agave syrup until smooth.
- Strain through a fine mesh sieve into a bowl to remove seeds (if desired).
- Fill the glasses with ice.
- Pour a couple of tablespoons of the strawberry puree into each glass.
- Top up with sparkling water or club soda.
- Gently stir.
- Garnish with strawberry slices and lemon wedges if desired.
- Drink and enjoy your delicious summer drink with strawberries.
3. Blueberry Burst Lemonade: Antioxidant Powerhouse
These incredible little balls are an ultimate powerhouse of antioxidants and have a slightly sour, sweet flavor famous for making summer cool drinks. The Blueberry summer drinks give an all-time classic lemonade a new twist with color and a boost of nutrients.
Why You Will Love: It’s a good healthy alternative to the ever-famous lemonade, loaded with antioxidants, bursting with blueberry flavor, tasting yummy.
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup lemon juice
- 1/2 cup sugar or sweetener of choice (adjust to your sweetness preference)
- 4 cups cold water
- Optional: Lemon slices and fresh blueberries for garnish
How to Prepare
- In a saucepan, add the blueberries and 1 cup of water.
- Bring to a simmer over medium heat and cook for about 5-7 minutes, until the blueberries have softened and released their color.
- Strain the blueberry mixture through a fine-mesh sieve, pressing on the blueberries to extract as much juice as possible. Discard the solids. Let the blueberry syrup cool completely.
- In a large pitcher, mix the cooled blueberry syrup with the lemon juice, sugar, and 4 cups of cold water.
- Stir until sugar is dissolved.
- Taste and adjust sweetness or lemon juice as needed.
- Pour into glasses filled with ice.
- Garnish as desired with lemon slices and fresh blueberries.
- Enjoy your blueberry summer drink, full of antioxidants.
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4. Raspberry Refresher
The tart flavor of raspberries is the best refreshing treat during the summer. Raspberry summer drinks are colorful and full of flavor for those who can tolerate a little sourness. This Raspberry Refresher is a simple yet elegant beverage that is going to blow your taste buds away.
What Makes It Great: This drink strikes the perfect balance between the tart and the sweet; on a hot day, the drink is simply refreshing and satisfying.
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh raspberries
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 2 tablespoons simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water; simmer until dissolved, then cool)
- Sparkling water or club soda
- Optional: Fresh raspberries and lime wedges for garnish
How to Prepare
- Combine raspberries, water, lime juice, and simple syrup in a blender.
- Blend until smooth. Optionally strain the raspberry mixture through a fine-mesh sieve to remove seeds.
- Fill glasses with ice.
- Pour in a few tablespoons of the raspberry puree into each glass.
- Fill up with sparkling water or club soda and mix gently.
- Garnish with fresh raspberries and lime wedges, if you like.
5. Mango Magic Smoothie
Mangoes are the most tropical of fruits that lend creamy sweetness to any summer drink. Every sip brings you along to sunny beach destinations, making mango summer drinks feel like an escape in a glass. The Mango Magic Smoothie is a very thick, creamy, and tropical affair.
Reasons To Love This: Mangoes are creamy, sweet, and wonderfully tropical in taste in this smoothie. This is one delicious and nutritious treat on a hot day!
Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups frozen diced mangoes
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup yogurt (plain or vanilla)
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- Optional: Mint sprigs to decorate the glass
How to Prepare
- Blend the frozen mangos, orange juice, yogurt, and lime juice in a blender.
- For a smooth and creamy consistency, blend and add some extra orange juice if you feel it is too thick.
- Pour into glasses.
- Garnish with mint if desired.
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6. Pineapple Paradise Cooler
Pineapple, fruity and tangy in taste, is another summer fruit superstar. Summer drinks made with pineapple will revive your refreshment routine with bright and exotic flavors. Bursting with tropical flavors, this pineapple paradise cooler is truly refreshing.
Why You’ll Love It: The cooler is much refreshing, with sweet and tangy pineapple flavors balanced very well.
Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh pineapple chunks
- 1/2 cup coconut water
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 2 tablespoons honey or agave syrup (add more if you want a sweeter drink)
- Optional: pineapple wedges and mint sprigs for garnish
How to Prepare
- In a blender, combine the pineapple chunks, coconut water, lime juice, and honey or agave syrup.
- Blend until smooth. Optional. To give it a smoother texture, strain through a fine mesh sieve to remove any pulp.
- Pour into two glasses filled with ice.
- Garnish with pineapple wedges and mint sprigs, if desired.
7. Citrus Zing Refresher: Vitamin C Power-Up
Citrus summer drinks are what the season requires. The bright and zesty flavors of lemons, limes, oranges, and grapefruits feel wonderfully refreshing and energizing. This Citrus Zing Refresher combines the best of the citrus for vitamin C and ultimate refreshment.
Why Love This: Full of vitamin C and bursting with zesty citrus flavors, it’s really refreshing and a perfect drink for those hot sunny days.
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 orange juice
- 1/4 lemon juice
- 1/4 lime juice
- 1/4 grapefruit juice
- 1/2 water
- 2 tablespoons honey or agave syrup (add depending on your sweetness preference)
- Optional: Citrus slices (orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit), mint sprigs for garnishing
How to Prepare
- Combine the citrus juices, water, and honey or agave syrup in a pitcher.
- Stir well enough so that the sweetener will dissolve.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes of chilling to let the flavors combine.
- Pour into the glasses filled with ice.
- Garnish with citrus slices and mint sprigs, if desired.
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8. Minty Mojito Mocktail: Herbaceous and Cool
Mint summer drinks are refreshingly cool-like mint shouting from the rooftops with its inbuilt coolness. Non-alcoholic of its original version, Mojito, this Minty Mojito Mocktail is packed with fresh mint and lime for the most refreshing drink.
Why You’ll Love It: The mocktail is refreshingly invigorating, with mint and lime in cool and herbaceous flavors.
Recipe
Ingredients
- 10-12 fresh mint leaves
- 1 lime, cut into wedges
- 2 tablespoons simple syrup (for taste)
- Sparkling water or club soda
- Optional: Lime wedges and mint sprigs for garnish
How to Prepare
- In a sturdy glass, gently muddle the mint leaves and lime wedges with the simple syrup. Don’t over-muddle; you just want to release the mint and lime flavors.
- Fill the glass with ice
- Top with sparkling water or club soda
- Gently stir and garnish with lime wedges and mint sprigs if desired
9. Cucumber Cooler
This cucumber cooler is quite simple, but sophisticated and wonderfully hydrating. Naturally cooling and low-calorie, cucumber is an excellent foundation for a light summer drink.
Why You’ll Love It: This cooler is almost refreshingly hydrating and very subtly fresh, with that clear, crisp cucumber flavor. Great for a light and healthy drink during the summer.
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cucumber, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 1 tablespoon honey or agave syrup (optional, adjust to your sweetness preference)
- Pinch of salt
- Sparkling water or club soda
- Optional: Cucumber slices and mint sprigs for garnish
How to Prepare
- Combine the cucumber, water, lime juice, honey/agave syrup (if using), and salt in a blender.
- Blend until smooth.
- Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve to remove solids (optional, for a smoother drink).
- Fill glasses with ice.
- Pour the cucumber mixture into each glass.
- Top with sparkling water or club soda.
- Gently stir.
- Garnish with cucumber slices and mint sprigs, if desired. Stay hydrated and refreshed with your cucumber summer drink!
10. Basil Bliss Lemonade
Basil adds the most subtle peppery, slightly sweet, flavor that fits perfectly to make it all the more awesome when added to lemonade and other fruity flavors. This Basil Bliss Lemonade is a reviving, aromatic twist on a classic-a refreshing experience for every thirst.
Why You’ll Love It: Well, because this lemonade creates a typical twist on a classic; the aromatic and herbaceous notes of basil add to the delightful complexity.
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves
- 1 cup lemon juice
- 4 cups cold water
- Optional: Lemon slices and basil sprigs for garnish
How to Prepare
- Make a basil simple syrup: In a saucepan, combine 1 cup water and sugar. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring until the sugar is dissolved.
- Remove from heat and add the fresh basil leaves. Let steep for at least 30 minutes to infuse the syrup with basil flavor.
- Strain the basil syrup through a fine mesh sieve, discarding the basil leaves.
- Let the syrup cool completely.
- In a large pitcher, combine the cooled basil syrup, lemon juice, and 4 cups cold water. Stir well.
- Taste and adjust sweetness or lemon juice as needed.
- Pour into glasses filled with ice.
- Garnish with lemon slices and basil sprigs, if desired.
Here are your top ten summer time beverages to stay hydrated, cool, and refreshed this summer. Enjoy experimenting with tastes, finding your favorites, and getting ready to sip your way through a refreshing summer!
