Crisp, refreshing and ideal for poolside parties, summer cocktails featuring bubbly and ice are perfect for staying cool as temperatures rise. In addition to the usual mojitos and sangrias, welcome your summer party guests with the following hot weather drinks.
Beat the heat with summer cocktails
Enjoy the hot, balmy days of summer with cool, refreshing cocktails that deliciously beat the heat. Bubbly, iced drinks can be casually sipped poolside or served festively at
your next summer cocktail party.
Wild Hibiscus Flower Sparkler
Serves 1
As beautiful as it is delish, this unique sparkling wine cocktail is sure to a be a popular choice at your next evening pool party or semi-formal cocktail soiree. Paired with a superlative
sparkling wine or Champagne, Wild Hibiscus Flowers in Syrup make for a drink with eye appeal that is also quite pleasing to the palate.
Ingredients:
4 ounces chilled sparkling wine or Champagne
1 Wild Hibiscus Flowers in Syrup*
1 teaspoon Wild Hibiscus Syrup*
Directions:
Pour sparkling wine or Champagne into champagne flute and add flower petals-side up. Drizzle in syrup and serve.
*Wild Hibiscus Flowers in Syrup are brilliant red hibiscus flowers packed in sweet same-hued syrup available at www.WildHibiscus.com. They are deliciously
beautiful as garnish for drinks or desserts.
Karma Citrus Celebration
Serves 1 to 2
KARMA is a new brut-style effervescent wine from California that comes in single-serve bottles. This bubbly drink can be sipped as is or transformed into a festive cocktail. Gather your guests for
this KARMA cocktail and let them make their own.
Ingredients:
1 bottle of KARMA
1 ounce orange liqueur
1 ounce Cointreau
1 sugar cube
Directions:
Sip down a couple of ounces of KARMA from the bottle. Add orange liqueur, Cointreau and sugar cube. Continue to sip.
Rock Star Rootbeer
Serves 1
A tasty twist on the frosty mug soft drink, this refreshing vodka cocktail is a fun libation to sip while lounging by the pool.
Ingredients:
1 ounce Three Olives Root Beer Vodka
1 ounce Three Olives Vanilla Vodka
4 ounces ginger ale
Fresh cherry
Directions:
Mix vodkas in a glass filled with ice. Stir in ginger ale and garnish with a cherry
Honey Daiquiri
Serves 1
Ingredients:
1 half lime
Ice
1 tablespoon honey
3 ounces Purista Caipirinha Cocktail Mix
3 ounces light rum
Lime wedge
Directions:
1. Squeeze lime into a glass. Add a few ice cubes.
2. Add honey, Purista and rum. Stir and serve garnished with a lime wedge.
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