Most Americans will be planning cookouts to celebrate the long holiday weekends and the much loved summer barbecue season and nothing goes better with a cookout than cocktails.
Here are 10 perfect cocktails to make for your summer cookout, barbecues and garden parties that can be served either as a single drink or as a batch cocktail for a larger crowd.
» Also try these tropical summer cocktails and these white rum cocktails. Find the perfect pairing for your cocktails with these appetizer recipes. If you are looking for a few non-alcoholic drinks for your summer cookout try one of these 8 refreshing iced tea recipes.
My Heart Will Go On Cocktail
This cocktail is perfect for Valentine's Day and will pair well with your meal or appetizers with it's strong, bitter profile.
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Spiced Pear Rum Cocktail
This Spiced Pear Rum Cocktail is the perfect blend of warmth and sweetness, a liquid embodiment of autumn.
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Vodka Gimlet
This Vodka Gimlet is a simple classic with just vodka, lime, and simple syrup.
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Agua de Valencia Cocktail
This cocktail is very popular in Valencia, Spain – home to the famed Valencia orange. It combines Cava (Spanish sparkling wine), with orange juice, gin, and vodka. Make it by the pitcher or the glass.
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Blood Orange Martini
These gorgeous Blood Orange Martinis are a great way to dress up your typical vodka martini with a zesty orange flavor and vibrant red color. Whether you call this a Blood Orange Martini or a Blood Orange Cosmo, it’s a cocktail you’ll love.
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Hippie Juice Cocktail for a Crowd
Hippie Juice is the perfect big batch cocktail to make for a crowd. It’s fresh and fruity, and a fun easy-drinker cocktail for barbecues and get-togethers. It's made with pink lemonade, watermelon vodka, and coconut rum.
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Classic Aviation Cocktail
A classic Aviation Cocktail mixes the beautiful Crème de Violette with gin, lemon juice, and Maraschino liqueur to make a drink that's both intriguing and exciting.
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Blueberry Basil Mezcal Cocktail
This Blueberry Basil Mezcal cocktail is a great way to blend the sweet flavor of blueberries with the smokiness of Mezcal and bit of brightness from basil and lime.
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PB & J
If you like a PB&J, you're going to love this Peanut Butter & Jealous cocktail with Skrewball peanut butter whiskey and Chambord raspberry liqueur.
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Raspberry Gin Fizz
Raspberries are the perfect addition to a gin fizz to liven it up and make a vibrant, tasty cocktail. You’ll end up loving this raspberry gin fizz. This cocktail goes a step further by making a raspberry simple syrup that infuses maximum raspberry flavor into the cocktail. It makes this raspberry and gin cocktail so much more flavorful than other raspberry cocktails.
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Classic Mojito Cocktail Recipe
Everyone loves a Classic Mojito. The refreshing and cool mint flavor, mixed with fresh lime juice, rum, and sugar makes a lively combination. Making a classic mojito is very easy and it’s fool proof if you follow this recipe. All you need is rum, mint leaves, lime wedges, sugar and soda water.
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Frozen Gin & Tonic That’s Perfect for Summer
Summer just got better with this frozen gin and tonic slush. In the heat of the summer this slush is a refreshing way to cool down and relax. I love a gin and tonic. So simple, and so delicious in frozen form.
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Classic Moscow Mule Recipe
The Classic Moscow Mule has a very good balance of sweet, sour, spicy, and boozy, but watch out…they go down easy! There’s a reason everyone loves a Moscow Mule cocktail. It’s both refreshingly chilled for summer and cozy for winter in its festive copper mug.
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Simply Delicious Blueberry Margarita
Liven up your typical margarita recipe with fresh blueberries to create a Blueberry Margarita cocktail that is oh so pretty. This Blueberry Margarita is made with tequila, lime juice, and triple sec, just like the original, but we’ve added blueberry juice from muddled blueberries to give it a pop of color and a bit of fruitiness.
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Laura is the founder and editor of the travel blogs Savored Sips and Savored Journeys. She is dedicated to sharing the best information about drinks found around the world.
What a fabulous collection. I can’t wait to try Frozen Mango Margarita and Raspberry Gin Fizz.
Just tried this recipe and my family loved it. Thank you so much!
Such a flavorful collection of cocktails. Definitely perfect for summer. Especially love the Blood Orange Martini and Frozen Mango Margarita. Yum!
Such a great round up of drink recipes — my eye is on the Moscow mule!!
So many great cocktails to try. We just need the good weather now.