The best cocktails for summer

Let's make a toast to summer? If there's a drink that matches this season, it's a very fresh and full of flavor cocktail! It combines with a day of celebration, at the beach or pool, and tastes good at lunch, in the late afternoon or evening, alone or with company. The truth is that cocktails will add flavor to your summer!

Do you know how this drink came about?

The legend tells that the concept originated in 1779, when the Irishman Flanagan opened a tavern in a small town in Virginia, USA, where he served drinks with various ingredients and called them 'Braser'. A quarrel arose between himself and his neighbor due to the noise coming from the tavern, on the one hand, and the noise made by the neighbor's roosters, on the other, which woke the Irishman up at dawn. One day, Flanagan decides to sacrifice the roosters and serve them with the drink 'Braser', in glasses decorated with the colorful feathers of the roosters. The customers loved it and started asking for more 'Cock - tails', replacing the previous name 'Braser'.

Find here the best cocktail suggestions for this summer

Try the recipes we have put together in this article for you. In each one, you will experience a unique explosion of flavors, as well as immense freshness. Mojito, cosmopolitan, piña colada... there are cocktails for all tastes, with and without alcohol. Choose your favorite recipe*, a nice glass, and enjoy!

Non-alcoholic cocktails 

Virgin strawberry daiquiri
Ingredients:

8 strawberries
1 cl of lime juice
1 cl of sugar syrup
1 slice of lemon
Crushed ice

Method of preparation: Reserve the lime slice and one strawberry. Add the remaining ingredients to a blender and blend. Pour the contents into a cocktail glass and garnish with the lime and strawberry.

Blood orange, honey and vanilla cocktail
Ingredients:

2 blood oranges
1 tablespoon of honey
3 drops of vanilla extract
200 ml of sparkling water
Ice

Method of preparation: Squeeze the juice from the blood oranges into a shaker. Add the honey and the vanilla extract. Shake and add the ice. Pour the mixture into a glass and finish filling it with the sparkling water. Garnish with a slice of blood orange.

Virgin Mojito
Ingredients:

1 tablespoon of cane sugar
Juice of three limes
4 mint leaves
200 ml of sparkling water
Crushed ice

Method of preparation:  In a grinder, grind the mint leaves and sugar. In a tall glass, place the ice, the lime juice, the mint and the sugar mixture, stir well and finish filling the glass with sparkling water.

Coffee Cocktail

Ingredients:

40 ml of espresso coffee
2 drops of vanilla syrup
50 ml of coconut milk
1 pinch of nutmeg
½ cup water
Coffee beans
Ice

Method of preparation: In a shaker, place all the ingredients (except the coffe beans) and shake. Serve the cocktail in a suitable glass and garnish with coffee beans.

Cocktails with alcohol

Cosmopolitan

Sex on the beach
Ingredients:

25 ml vodka
15 ml of peach liqueur
25 ml of cranberry juice
Juice of one orange
Two orange slices to garnish
Candied cherries to garnish
Ice

Method of preparation: Put the ice in the cocktail glass. In a shaker, pour the vodka, peach liqueur, orange juice and cranberry juice and mix. Pour the mixture into the cocktail glass and garnish with orange slices and candied cherries.

Margarita
Ingredients:

40 ml of tequila
15 ml of lime juice
20 ml of Triple Sec
Lime zest
Salt
Ice

Method of preparation: In a shaker, place the tequila, Triple Sec, lime juice and ice. Shake well and set aside. Separately, add the lime zest and salt. With a lime opened in half, swirl around the rim of the cocktail glass, then swirl the glass in the lime zest and salt mixture so that it clings to the rims. Serve the content of the shaker into the glass and garnish with a slice of lime.