Summer drinks (159/365)

[white_hart]

It is hot enough that when I got in just now, after a 40-minute walk and then a 15-minute drive in a car whose air conditioning always takes a good 20 minutes to kick in properly, I thought I'd rather have a cold drink than a cup of tea.

At which point I discovered that my stock of cold drinks consisted of about an inch of rather old elderflower cordial and a similar quantity of similar vintage Rose's lime juice cordial. And, while elderflower and lime mixed is definitely refreshing, I should probably replenish my stock a bit.

So, DW. What are your favourite non-alcoholic summer drinks?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Greece and Turkey both do excellent sour cherry juice, which is wonderful mixed with fizzy water, but British equivalents are depressingly sweet. Proper cranberry juice, also with fizzy water, ice and a slice of lime is the best I've been able to manage here, though we had a lovely ginger beer in the park after dog walking on Saturday.

[legionseagle]

Sorry, that was me. Had apparently been logged out.

[white_hart]

Oh, I do like cranberry juice.

[legionseagle]

So do I if it's juice not that absymal "cranberry drink" one sometimes ends up picking up by accident, and in my case provided I dilute it half and half or sometimes a little more with fizzy water (I cannot drink neat fruit juice, I've no idea why.)

[white_hart]

Neat fruit juice can be quite heavy. I'll drink it at breakfast but would dilute if drinking juice at other times.

[caulkhead]

Indeed, cranberry mixed with fizzy water and lime is what I've just had in the local Turkish restaurant this evening (I was hoping for pomegranate, but no luck).

[legionseagle]

But sour cherry is so much better.