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

[jinty]

We have pomegranate and elderflower cordial here, or ginger cordial. But mostly I just like plain water, always have!

Guarana as a soft drink is also good but then that’s a taste of my childhood and will not apply to all.

[white_hart]

I do mostly drink plain water but sometimes I want something that feels like "a drink" and not just something to quench my thirst with, if that makes any sense? Pomegranate and elderflower sounds lovely!

[jinty]

This is the Belvoir cordial range - the pomegranate and elderflower is reasonably easy to come across, we mostly get it in big Tesco I think. There is also a ginger cordial in the same range which is v nice. Plain lime is just as good though I think, so long as you get a good one! Waitrose lime cordial was great but I just went back to plain water because it was all very sticky by the time you'd poured yourself a drink.