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Nothing like freshly squeezed lemonade, with or without vodka.

It's definitely got to be sweet tea, made the authentic way, with real sugar stirred into still-hot tea and cooled down with a pitcherful of ice cubes.

@bobcatsteph3... me too! I love fresh squeezed tart lemonade with vodka. That's one of my favorite drinks for any season. ;)

I also like the girlie mudslides that come in the half gallon pre-boozed bottle, which I make less girlie by adding extra spiced rum, into a blender with lots of ice until smooth... like a leaded chocolate milk almost. ;)

Sweet Tea! My grandma made a fresh pitcher everyday and we'd sit in the glider and drink it and watch the cars go by on the blacktop.

If I'm having BBQ, it's sweet tea -- otherwise, a salty dog is summertime fave!

fresh, cold, home-made lemonade: no contest.

I agree: fresh-squeezed, ice-cold lemonade.

My dad's sweet tea with lemon, hands down.

Iced tea--the only real thirst quencher other than water.

Sweet tea! My Grandma made a pitcher everyday and we'd sit in the glider, drink it and count the cars passing by on the blacktop road.

Iced Tea, Lemonade or Cold Beer.

Nothing beats an ice cold glass of Savingnon Blanc on the back deck after work. Relaxation at it's best.

mint iced tea, with or without a shot of bourbon :)

Meyer lemonade, with mint and kumquats = summer blissfulness

Homemade jalapeno soda!

sun tea, iced

Iced Sun Tea w/ Lemon and Stevia -- I live on the stuff all summer.

for sure the arnold palmer, half ice tea, half lemonade

Cedevita Lemon

iced tea or a chocolate milkshake with frozen strawberries in it

Sweet tea in a jar! Who needs a Nalgene? ;)

lemon aid

Vodka Lemonade

Hope yall have fun with Screen Doors and Sweet Tea. Try the Cantaloupe
Daiquiris page 8 or a Mailbox Cocktail page 5!

mojitos, sangria and vodka soda ... and lemonade!

I like half ice tea, half lemonade (ie. the Arnold Palmer).

Sweet tea, lemonade, iced coffee, or a nice glass of rose.

Now I'm thirsty.

large milk with ice cubes

Sweet tea with lemon or brain-freeze cold water.

iced sun tea with mint

Iced tea

sweet tea...oh that sweet tea brings so many wonderful memories...i used to have a wee sip from my moms glass as children were ot alowed tea until you were 12....so those little icie cold tiny sips of sweet tea were heaven and it remains my heaven!

I spend much of my time on the road in a touring band - last summer we were rolling through Chapel Hill, NC and found an elderly man on the side of the road selling sweet sun tea. It was incredible, and no other summer beverage I've had since has really been able to cut it...

watermelon juice with a little lime and a shot of vodka

Water with slices of chilled cucumber.
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Ha! Nezrite totally called it, though I consider the cock and bull ginger beer more important than the copper mug, and I prefer Rose's lime in addition to the wedge. Now that there's real sugar Coke all over my neighborhood, though, I have to admit an extreme infatuation..

Lemonade - with Bourbon if trying to get tipsy.

Iced tea or a Margarita

watermelon juice - blended ice, watermelon, and a pinch of sugar.

good ole beer or fresh lemonade

This year I'm all about green tea mixed with homemade lemonade.

Depending on the time of day and my mood I enjoy the following:

iced coffee
mojitos
margaritas
crisp white wine like a sauvignon blanc or a vinho verde
a spicy shiraz with barbecue
beer

I drink Oolong Tea, so in the Summer, I cool it in the frige and make OOlong Ice Tea!

Sangria

Sweet tea, of course!! It's the house wine of the South!!!

A margarita from Frontera Grill...oh, why did I have to move from Chicago!?!?!

Iced Irish breakfast tea with lime, mint, and a touch of sugar

Limoncello! Maybe with a side of mango sorbet. And a butter cookie.

Orangina. Nothing is more thirst-quenching. For later on, a mojito made from scratch - sugar muddled with fresh mint, a lime squeezed over it, rum (Jamaican is what I prefer) and some club soda. It looks like you took a scoop of swamp water and put it over ice, but it's sure good.

Iced sun tea with no sugar or lemon or a cold beer.

On the alcoholic side, no contest: michelada, a mix of lime juice, tabasco and lager in a salt-rimmed glass.

Otherwise, iced coffee or tea, unsweetened, with milk.

lemonade :)

Limeaid. I love ice cold limeaid.

oof...either freshly made lemonade or fruit smoothies. mmm....smoothies..

I love lemonade but it kills my stomach (the acid)

Pimms with lemon soda or gingerale, cucumber and orange. It says summer to me.

Beer!

A nice cold, but not ice cold, Belgian style wheat ale.

Lemonade is my favorite, or ice water!

I love a nice tall glass of sweet tea on a hot summer day. Thanks so much for this giveaway!

I drink ice water most of the time, and crave it, but for a treat I love real lemonade (pulp and all) or herbal peppermint iced tea. Thanks for the offer--the book sounds like great way to get back to my roots.

iced anything...

good cold ice tea with lots of lemon...um it hits the spot

I am southern.....the best summer beverage for my family is sweet tea!

Sweet tea!!!!

Two choices. Either an icy cold beer or a Cuervo margarita on the rocks.

Strawberry lemonade or a great iced tea with lemon....mmmm....

Sweet ice tea--with a lot of lemon.

sweet iced tea that I add some orange and lemon slices to Great for the hot days of Florida's summer

Water

water or a cold beer

Sweet tea or lemonade

Unsweetened ice tea - the best and home-brewed.

I like grapefruit flavored vodka mixed with kiwi strawberry lemonade, with a slice of fresh lime. Serve this ice cold! Great summer party drink!

My current favorite summer drink is red wine mixed with diet 7up and a lot of ice. It is cool and refreshing.

Mojito!!!

Fanta. After hiking.

Fresh lemonade with juice from one fresh orange (for every ten lemons) to cut the tartness just a tad.

muddled fruit (like strawberry, raspberry, blueberry) with mint and ice cold lemonade in a tall glass half filled with ice.

fresh, not-too-sweet lemonade mixed with sparkling water and a little bit of basil

Sweet tea with fresh mint leaves from my garden.

cold beer while lounging in a hammock. barefoot, of course.

Sweet tea.

Sweet Tea and Mojitos

Iced tea lemonade or a beer.

Good ol' water! But I can't resist a nice cold glass of cream soda.

Water or vinho verde

mint iced tea, and lemonade and milkshakes!

Sweet tea, of course!

For me, it's a toss-up between lemonade and iced tea.

I love sweet tea.

What we refer to as boozy-ade in my house: lemonade spiked with vodka. Of course, lemonade by itself is also a favorite.

Growing up, my Mom made a slushee type of drink she called yellow ice.... sounds weird, but I loved it. I know it had an orange, mango and other flavors in it, but she still won't let go of the recipe. Someday!!

Cold Sancerre or Proseco.
Or lemonade and seltzer.

Strawberry pink lemonade.

Definitely sangria - I make both red and white varieties and they are delicious....

On the nonalcoholic side - fresh squeezed lime-ade....

Lemonade, fer sure.

I had a watermelon vodka recently and fell in love
Fresh, crushed watermelon + sugar, to taste + vodka + ice = summer heaven

Cherry slushies! Mmmm!

Sweet tea, of course! But if I am in a party mood......Bailey's on the rocks, YUM!

Iced tea, water with citrus, or beer, depending on time of day and mood. It's almost beer-thirty, I think.

Brewed Iced Tea with fresh mint leaves

Sweetened lemonade with a hint of mint from the garden.

Fresh lemonade or sweet tea.

Nothing says summer quite like a cold beer. Except for, perhaps, another cold beer. ;)

I'm from the South, so what do y'all think it is. Sweet tea, of course!!

Strawberry lemonade

Sweet ice tea for sure. My second favorite is fresh homemade lemonade. The price of lemons keeps me from making it much though.

Ice Tea sweetened with Peach Nectar. Yum!

Kiwi strawberry lemonade and sweet tea

I'll have IBC cream soda, please!

Frozen sangria! Iced Moroccan Mint Tea would be a close second.

beer

fruit smoothies

fresh squeezed lemonade!

Peach Iced Tea.

Nothing beats an afternoon on the porch with a good book and some Long Island Iced Tea.

My favorite is Frozen Melon Margaritas - good stuff! Thank you so much!

Peach milkshakes on a hot day

The summer cooler from Passionate Vegetarian. It's apple juice concentrate, 6 Red Zinger teabags (brewed in 2 quarts of water), one squeezed orange, and one squeezed lemon. Delish and refreshing and not too sweet!

When it is hot, fresh sun tea, lemon and sugar of ice are a wonderful refresher

Peach Iced Tea.

Gin and tonic or strong sweet tea

Margarita, on the rocks. no salt.

I love the sugar cane and fresh mint of Mojito's!

Fresh lemonade.

Freshly squeezed lemonade, hands down!

Originally being from NC, Sweet Tea is my fave summer drink! I'll never be able to make it like grandmaw, but I make it good enough to wet my whistle!! Thanks for a great contest!

Frozen margaritas are my favorite drink.

Strawberry wine. Although, it has been a while since I had it - my grandmother used to make it all the time, but she's since passed...
Maybe it's about time to get out the recipe book...

lemonade

lemonade or margarita on the alcoholic side

Ice water or switchel, or rosewater and lime.

beer.....ice cold....so cold it gives you headaches

Pimm's cup.

Cherry lemonade or cherry limeade!

Ah, an esay question with thanks to Rachel Ray. A basil martini. Simple syrup, vodka, touch of lemon juice and muddled basil, mmm summertime. Think I'll have one tonight! I have some hummingbird food in the fridge, its basically simple syrup....

Mmm, beer.

My dad's home-made iced tea.

A fruit margarita, Tequila, frozen fruit combo from costco, frozen watermelon,melon liquer, water, ice and limeade...The best!!

My favorite beverage is good old unsweetened, freshly brewed ice tea on ice with lemon. (Ditch all those funky flavors.) I don't particularly care what time of the year it is, ice tea always works. This last year I tried sweet tea for the 1st time. (Hey, I'm a northern gal.) LOVE IT!

Iced jasmine tea with a sprig of mint floating on top. Or better yet, I used to get fresh, moist sassafras root from some old hippie at the farmers market in college, take it home & brew the best iced tea on earth. I've never been able to duplicate it & I've missed it for 15 years.

a cold beer !

I'm a big fan of sweet tea and lemonade mixed together, but my absolute favorite summertime drink is a pineapple mojito. YUM!

I love Arnold Palmers, with more iced tea than lemonade.

Iced tea brewed the sun tea way. Thanks.

Mojito

I'm a transplanted Southerner in a Northern state, so of courseit's iced sweet tea even in a blizzard!

Micheladas

Strong, sweet iced tea with a little lemonade thrown in - just enough for the tart to keep the sweetness toned down. With lots and lots of ice. If I could make a concentrate, I'd pour that over some ice cubes and let the heat melt it all down.

Grapefruit margaritas by the pitcher. Oh, and seconding jimbojones, anything served in a mason jar.

My favorite summertime drink is tTea

Summer is all about mojito's for me. Good thing mint is like a weed, growing in front of my house.

fresh squeezed lemonade

I like un-sweet tea, and in the South, I have to request it explicitly.

I love either a watermelon slushie or watermelon shake. Please enter me, thankyou

either raspberry ice tea or margaritas

I LOVE sweet iced tea, especially with a slice of lemon.

...sun tea with more fresh lemon than tea.....

freshly made strawberry lemonade!

Our favorite Summer drink has got to be fresh made lemonade that my children and I make from scratch. Nothing better to drink on a hot Summer day than an ice cold glass of lemonade. Thank-you to the wonderful sponor!

Sweet... mint... tea... (from my grandma's recipe)
For the adults, a mojito with a splash of pomegranate juice hits the spot!

Sweet ice tea... yum!

I love almost any kind of tea!

I am in the South and a tall iced tea is for me!

I love sweet tea with mint.

iced tea

Freshly brewed ice tea with a touch of lemon.

Love unsweet tea in the summer

I like raspberry lemonade!

limeade!

Lemonade granita

My favorite summer drink is ice tea, lemon and a mint leaf with lots of ice. Combine that with a warm summer night on the deck and you have the perfect refreshment!

When I was a kid I really loved home made lemonade but nowadays I like Cherry 7-Up

Sweet ice tea!

We are from Alaska but we love to visit the south. I love sweet tea in the summer. I don't know how it's made because I just can't re-create it up here for some reason.

Lemonade with seltzer.

I love iced tea.I drink it all year long but it's especially good on hot summer days.

lemonade with frozen raspberries, or iced tea, freshly brewed.

Lime sherbet and lemon lime soda!

Used to be sickeningly sweet tea with a bunch of lemon. Now with Type II Diabetes I have to settle for unsweet tea with faux sugar and lemon. Sigh. Not the same. Not the same at all.

a pina-colada with fresh pineapple and coconut rum.... yummy!

ice tea with lemon and enough sugar to be just barely sweet

Strawberry lemonade

Hand squeezed lemonade on ice for me! Thanks!

Fresh mint iced tea.

I enjoy the wonderful simplicity of Sun-Brewed Iced Tea.

ice water!

Homemade sweet tea or fresh squeezed Meyer lemonade.

lemonade

Sweet tea or fresh lemonade from carnivals.

Sweet tea from Daisy May's.

Summer Sangria made of white wine, and summer fruits peachs, nectarines, and plus

Fresh fruit smoothie with ALOT of ice...mmmmm

iced green tea with fruit juice

Hands down - Iced tea is my favorite.

Sweet tea please:)

Spearmint tea, iced with a little dash of sugar is cool and refreshing.

Wallaby Darned's
Sweet Tea

There is nothing quite like freshly squeezed lemonade over lemonade ice cubes. Thanks for the chance to win!

diet grapefruit soda with lemon juice

cold mugicha (barley) tea. Sometimes with a bit of raw sugar stirred in.

Sweet tea... but not sticky sweet. Made in large pitchers every other day with Lusianne decaf plus some lemon herbal or peach tea and just a little bit of sugar. Sweet Tea is the official "wine" of the state of South Carolina, after all!

lemonade

sour apple lemonade, yummy~

lemonade

Clerico- a kind of white wine sangria that uses bananas and green grapes. I always order this in Buenos Aires when I can!

it used to be a cold beer but i gave that up now i like lemonade :)

Pernod and water -- faintly licorice, milky-looking: yum!

My favorite Summer drink is iced tea. As a matter of fact, it's my favorite drink year round!

For me it would be sweet tea. Although I do find myself craving lime slushes when it is really hot~

pimm's cups

A nice gin and tonic with a big squeeze of fresh lime is so refreshing on a hot day.

Homemade lemonade. MMMmmmmmmmm...

Iced tea with mint, lots of mint!

Iced tea (unsweetened) or Prosecco

cold water

ICED TEA

Pimms Cup

My fave summer drink is a big pitcher of Sangria, with fresh peach slices and other summer fruits floating in it...its like a snack and an alcoholic bevvie and a thirst quencher, all in one! (And I would share the pitcher, in case anyone was wondering...)

Pina Colada

Another sangria fan here.

margaritas!

Ice water with fresh lemon,refreshing

I believe it's called Palmer Tea - 1/2 sweet tea, 1/2 lemonade. So good!

i love tea and cranberry juice.... but, omg, the root beer floats post really zings... and lime sherbert with ginger ale!!

Cherry limeade, made with club soda and not plain water. Fizzy and fresh and cold, it hits all the right spots.

Give me a refreshing Gordon's Cup made with cucumber and limes - you can add a splash of Midori for extra pizazz!

Gin and tonics are my favorite for something cool to drink while sitting on my patio.

I'm with mint juleps as well.