These refreshing cocktails will really get you in a summery mood – perfect to share with friends or serve at a BBQ.
Raspberry Mojito
Ingredients
- 6 mint leaves
- 4 raspberries
- 20ml lime juice
- 1 teaspoon of sugar syrup
- 1 tablespoon of raspberry liqueur
- 35ml golden rum
- handful of crushed ice
How to make it
- Place the mint, raspberries, lime juice and sugar syrup in to a glass and stir.
- Add lots of crushed ice to the glass and pour over the raspberry liqueur and rum.
- Mix well and then top up with ginger ale and garnish with the mint leaves.
Tequila Sunrise
- 25ml tequila
- 100ml orange juice
- 10ml grenadine or cranberry juice
- 1 wedge of orange
- handful of crushed ice
How to make it
- Fill a glass with ice.
- Pour in the tequila then the orange juice.
- Pour 10ml of grenadine syrup into the glass.
- Garnish with the wedge of orange.
English Garden
- 50ml gin
- 50ml apple juice
- 20ml lime juice
- 20ml sugar syrup
- 1 mint leaf
- 1 slice of cucumber
- handful of crushed ice
How to make it
- Fill a glass with ice.
- Add the gin, apple juice, lime juice and sugar syrup to the glass.
- Garnish with the cucumber and mint leaf.
Summer Punch
- 400ml vodka
- 200ml lemon juice
- 600ml ginger beer
- 600ml apple juice
- 10 sprigs of mint
- 20 pieces of raspberries
- 10 lemon wedges
- handful of crushed ice
How to make it
- Fill a large bowl with ice.
- Add the vodka, lemon juice, ginger beer and apple juice.
- Then add in the fresh mint, raspberries and lemon wedges.
- Stir and serve.
Long Island Iced Tea
- 15ml vodka
- 15ml gin
- 15ml light rum
- 15ml tequila
- 15ml Cointreau/triple sec
- 30ml lime/lemon Juice
- splash of cola
- lemon wedge
- handful of crushed ice
How to make it
- Put ice into the glass.
- Add all the ingredients other than the cola to glass and stir.
- Top off with the splash of cola.
- Garnish with the lemon wedge.
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