Summer is the perfect time to enjoy refreshing cocktails that help beat the heat. Whether you’re hosting a party or just looking for a cool drink to enjoy on a hot day, there are plenty of summer cocktail recipes to choose from.

Some things to keep in mind when creating a summer cocktail is to make sure to keep your cocktails light, the summer isn’t the time to make a recipe using a cream base, but it’s the perfect time for spritzers, margaritas, and mai tais.

Whether you prefer rum, gin, or tequila, there is something for everyone. We’ve put together a list of 9 different summer cocktail recipes you can enjoy in the summer sun!

Hollywood Colada

Ingredients:
1 oz SelvaRey Coconut Rum
1 oz Pineapple Juice
2 oz Coconut Water

Glass: Double Old Fashioned
Garnish: Lime Wedge

Method: Blend or combine over ice and stir. Garnish with a lime wedge and serve.
Manila Mai Tai

Ingredients:
1.5oz Don Papa Rum (45ml)
1.5oz Mango Puree (45ml)
Juice of 1/2 of Lime
1 Dash Orgeat Syrup

Glass: Highball
Garnish: Rosemary Sprig

Method: In a shaker squeeze the juice of half a lime. Add a dash of orgeat syrup and pour in the Don Papa Rum and mango purée. Shake the mixture vigorously and pour into a highball glass filled with ice and garnish.
Coastal Tides

Ingredients:
2oz Gray Whale Gin
1.5oz coconut water
1oz lavender syrup
0.75oz fresh lemon juice

Garnish: lemon wheel

Method: Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake for 3-4 seconds and strain over fresh ice. Top with lemon wheel.
Beachside

Ingredients:
1.5oz Gray Whale Gin
1.5oz pineapple
1oz Cream of Coconut squeeze
0.5oz fresh lemon juice
Handful of mint

Garnish: mint sprig

Method: Shake all ingredients together with ice. Strain into a highball glass filled with fresh ice and garnish with mint.
Tommy’s Margarita

Ingredients:
2oz Cantera Negra Silver
1oz fresh lime juice
.5oz agave nectar

Garnish: Blood orange slice

Method: Add all ingredients to cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain over ice in a half salt rimmed rocks glass and garnish with blood orange slice.
Cantera Paloma

Ingredients:
2oz Cantera Negra Silver
.5oz fresh lime juice
5oz Mexican Squirt

Garnish: Tajin and sugar for rim

Method: Build over ice in a Collins glass rimmed with tajin/sugar mix (3 parts tajin to 1 part sugar). Stir and garnish with a grapefruit slice.
Fruity and Long

Ingredients:
50ml Silent Pool Gin
25ml Lime juice
15ml Rhubarb syrup
15ml Merlet Strawberry Liqueur
75ml Sparkling apple juice

Garnish: A rhubarb ribbon.

Method: Build all ingredients, in a highball over cubed ice and stir to combine.
Chelsea Flower Show

Ingredients:
50ml Silent Pool Gin
25ml Gewurztraminer wine
25ml Merlet Strawberry liqueur

Garnish: A grapefruit twist

Method: Stir all ingredients together with ice and double strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Flamingo

Ingredients:
50ml Silent Pool Gin
25ml Lime juice
15ml Merlet Apricot liqueur
15ml Merlet Raspberry liqueur

Garnish: Raspberry on a cocktail stick.

Ingredients: Shake all ingredients together with cubed ice and double strain into a chilled cocktail glass.