Refreshing Summer Drinks

Summer hydration just got a serious upgrade! These four refreshing summer drinks are what I make when I want something cold, refreshing, and actually worth drinking on a hot day! This is the summer drink lineup I keep on rotation all season long, and the one I reach for when sparkling water is not cutting it and store-bought drinks are not an option. Make one, make all four, and stock your freezer. Cheers!

1

Green Electrolyte Cubes

Green electrolyte ice cubes are what I make when I cannot bring myself to drink another glass of plain water. Green apple, English cucumber, kiwi, whole lemon, fresh mint, Himalayan salt, and coconut water. All blended smooth, strained, and frozen into the most refreshing cubes. Natural, hydrating, and genuinely delicious.

Check out this recipe

2

Tinto de Verano Ice Cubes

Tinto de Verano Ice Cubes are my favorite thing I have made all summer and the most Spanish thing you can put in a glass without being in Spain. Two orange wedges and a rolled lemon wedge frozen inside Garnacha wine cubes, dropped into a glass, and topped with your favorite lemon-lime soda. As they melt, they turn your drink into a slow, cold, perfectly balanced tinto de verano that gets better with every sip.

Check out this recipe

3

Creamy Strawberry Basil Lemonade

Creamy Strawberry Basil Lemonade is the summer drink you did not know you needed until you make it once, and then cannot stop making it. Whole blended lemons, fresh strawberries, basil, milk, and honey simple syrup all blended smooth and strained into the most refreshing, slightly creamy, perfectly tart drink of the season.

Check out this recipe

4

Egyptian Lemonade

This Egyptian lemonade is the most refreshing drink you will make all summer and the secret is something most lemonade recipes will never tell you. You blend the whole lemon, peel and all, which is exactly how it is made in Egypt and exactly where all the flavor lives. Bright, minty, slightly creamy, and perfectly tart.

Check out this recipe

Summer drinking sorted!

Whether you are making the green electrolyte cubes on a Sunday to get through the week, blending up a pitcher of Egyptian lemonade for a gathering, dropping tinto de verano cubes into a glass of something bubbly at the end of a long day, or shaking up the strawberry basil lemonade for the kids on a hot afternoon, there is something here for every mood and every kind of thirst.

The full recipes for each drink are linked above. Save this post, come back to it all summer, and let me know in the comments which one becomes your go-to. My money is on the tinto de verano cubes. Don't say I didn't warn you 🙂