Drinks You Need to Make for Summer

Shake and serve on ice.

Pour vodka, triple sec, 7-up, and lemon juice into a 64 ounce container. Slice a lemon, add, then almost-fill with sweet and sour mix. Add sugar and a touch of grenadine, and shake well. Serve into highball glasses. Stir or shake well with each serving to circulate the sugar.

In the container of an electric blender, combine the banana, lemon juice, water, honey, ice and mint leaves. Blend until smooth. Pour over ice cubes in a tall glass and garnish with lemon.

Add lemon juice, syrup and cayenne pepper into a collins glass. Fill with ice water. Stir.

Best kind of glass for this drink: Collins.

Mix sugar, lemon juice and 6 cups of cold water. Mix well until the sugar dissolves. Puree raspberries in a food processor and then press through a fine seive into a bowl, dicarding the seeds. Mix the raspberries with the liquid. Chill for at least an hour or until desired temperature. Add ice and lemon slices if desired.

Place cubes in glass and add ingredients over top. Stir. Cubes will start to melt right away making a soothing blue color.

Mix into punch bowl and make sure that the koolaid is already pre measurable with sugar already added. Be careful, hard to taste alcohol so intoxication sets in quickly!

Shake all ingredients (except carbonated water) with ice and strain into a collins glass over shaved ice. Fill with carbonated water and stir. Decorate with slices of orange and lemon. Add the cherry and serve with a straw.

Pour rum over 2-3 ice cubes. Add lemonade, stir gently, and serve.

Pour all of the ingredients into a large food processor or smoothie maker and whizz until the ice has been crushed. If your processor is small consider slushing the cocktail in batches as it may fizz over somewhat. Serve in a high-ball glass with a wedge of fresh lime - brush the lime-wedge over the rim of the glass.

Mix vodka and lemonade in a collins glass. Top with sprite.

Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.

Pour the Jack Daniels, Sweet and Sour over ice into a collins glass (or similar). Now pour in the Squirt Soda allowing the soda bubbles to do all the mixing. Drink and enjoy!

Adding a splash of Grenadine Cherry Syrup over the top will give it a sweeter flavor, almost like "pink-lemonade."

Soak several slices of habanero pepper in the bottle of vodka for 3 months before using. It will give you that feeling of a summer hot breeze.

Mix the sugar and lemonade together in a large bowl. Pour boiling tea over the top, let cool, and serve.

Mix vodka and sweet and sour mix proportionally in any size batch, then add sprite or 7-up and cranberry accordingly, a dash each per serving. Directions are for single, regular bar size servings.

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, strain into a collins glass almost filled with ice cubes, and serve.

Chop a 1/2 lime into pieces and toss them into a pint sized glass along with a couple of sprigs of fresh mint. Use a wooden spoon, pestle, or dowel to thoroughly muddle the two indredients.

Fill the glass with ice and add equal parts of Mango flavored rum and your favorite lemon-lime soda to fill the glass.

Stir and strain into a chilled cocktail glass with a frosted rim (lemon and sugar).

Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into glass.

Put ice in glass. Add peach schnapps, then grapefruit juice. Add 1/2 shot of grenedine. Stir and top with fruit garnish

Shake and serve on the rocks.

Combine ice, sherbet, orange juice and peach schnapps in a blender, and blend until smooth. Pour cranberry juice into the bottom of a hurricane or other tall glass, add mixture on top, and serve.

Shake all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker. Pour over ice into a collins glass, and top with soda to taste. Garnish with a lemon wedge and a maraschino cherry, and serve.

In a shaker glass combine diced kiwi and simple syrup. Muddle until almost smooth. Add ice and Grey Goose. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.

Place mint leaves in bottom of glass. Add crushed ice, Light Rum, sugar, strawberries and lime juice, then muddle. Add soda water and garnish with mint leaves, strawberries, and optionally orange wedges.