Keep the Cruel Summer at Bay with These ‘What’s Shakin’ Favorites

While Taylor Swift may be having a Cruel Summer, we’re experiencing the opposite this weekend with these EBI favorites to cool off this July!

Cheers!

The Classic Paloma

Ingredients:

  • Juice from half of a ruby grapefruit
  • 1.5 shots of tequila
  • 0.5 shots of agave or simple syrup
  • 75 ml of club soda
  • A squirt of fresh lime juice

How to: Salt the rim and fill the cup with ice. Mix the grapefruit juice, tequila, and agave until well mixed. Top it off with soda water and a squirt of lime juice.

The Mint Strawberry Moscow Mule

Ingredients:

  • 4 strawberries, stems removed and cut in half
  • 2-3 sprigs of fresh mint
  • 60 ml vodka
  • Juice of a lime
  • 120 ml ginger beer

How to: Add strawberries and mint leaves to a glass and muddle until the strawberries are broken down into tiny pieces. Add ice, vodka, and lime juice, then top with ginger beer. Stir to mix well. Serve immediately.

The Blueberry Thyme Mojito

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup blueberries
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 2-3 mint leaves
  • 2 strands of thyme
  • 2 tbsp lime juice
  • Club soda
  • Rum

How to: In a medium bowl, add mint leaves, lime juice, blueberries, thyme, and sugar — now muddle! Then, add ice to 2 glasses, transfer the mix equally, and add rum to taste (plus a splash of club soda). Garnish with additional blueberries and thyme sprigs, and enjoy!

Sip, sip, sip hooray!

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