When the going gets hot, the hot gets drinking!
Sparkling apple vodka drinks
This refreshing summer spritzer is a little like a cocktail called a tatanka (no, not the wrestler!), which is just bison grass vodka (yes, there is such a thing) and apple juice.
Kombucha
Kombucha - not just a hipster favourite! This fizzy fermented ‘iced tea’ is made by adding a SCOBY (short for ‘symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast’) to a batch of brewed tea. Steep with different fruits to change up the flavours!
Raspberry vodka slushie
This is a grown-up version of a slushy - think more booze and less convenience store! Be careful, though, the lurid colour and its sweet deliciousness can trick you into forgetting this drink is laden with booze.
Cucumber-infused gin and grapefruit spritzer
This refreshing South African gin drink is infused with cucumber, intensifying the perfect flavour partnership between the two. Cucumber + gin = perfection!
Sunset in Jalisco
A little sour and sweetened with herb-infused agave syrup, this is the perfect cocktail to accompany Mexican food. Pro tip: make the base ahead of time for a party, and top up with ice and prosecco as the guests arrive.
The neverending sherbet
Tükenmez is a sustainable home version of the kind of sherbet you used to buy in the street from hawkers with tanks on their backs – still seen occasionally in some parts of eastern Turkey. Think kombucha, but fermented with chickpeas instead of a scoby. Best part? You can keep it going for THREE WHOLE MONTHS!
Persian princess rosewater and saffron water kefir
This beautiful amber Persian drink is a classy way to beat the heat! Perfumed with rosewater, this is sometimes served as a digestive elixir. For an indulgent treat, top high with Persian fairy floss.
Roasted Piña Colada
Upgrade your Piña Colada by roasting your pineapples - the sharp tanginess gets transformed, and mellows out to sweet, caramel notes that bring this classic drink to the next level!
Spiced rum and grapefruit drink
Jamaica - home of spicy jerk chicken, and also, spicy drinks! If you haven’t made the pepper rum, simply add a sliced chilli or two to this recipe. And if you're feeling reeeeeal fancy? A bit of salt around the rim of the glass isn’t out of the question either.
Watermelon granita dark & stormy
There's nothing that screams summer more than watermelon and cocktails. Based on a Bermudan trademarked cocktail, Dark ‘n’ Stormy, made with Goslings Black Seal Rum, it is a drink for the sailors, made with ginger beer to help with sea-sickness and rum to keep you nice.
White peach agua fresca
Agua fresca is a drink sold by street vendors throughout Mexico, and their carts are loaded with huge glass barrels of delicious thirst-quenching fruity flavours. One favourite is watermelon or strawberry, but right now we’re using white peaches from a nearby orchard.
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