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

[antisoppist]

I find a lot of them too sweet or too sort of thick-tasting but I like Cawston's fizzy rhubarb. I am on a quest for ginger beer that isn't too sickly sweet.

My landlord's apple juice is excellent and we also have a local apple pressing cooperative and this year my friends up the road and their neighbours in the brass band combined forces and their gardens to create apple and pear juice, which is lovely, but a bit too local for you.

[serriadh]

Ginger beer sold as a mixer (e.g. Schweppes) tends to be much less sweet - might be worth a try.

[antisoppist]

Thanks! My favourite for flavour is the alcoholic one, which is lovely and gingery, but these days I'm getting stonking hangovers from one glass of wine or a bottle of beer so I've not risked it.

[white_hart]

Back in the days of occasionally going to pubs I always liked Fentimans ginger beer, though it is quite sugary (I can't ever drink more than one of their drinks).

The local apple juice sounds lovely, but yes, a bit too far!