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It's this Mexican cinnamon rice drink called Horchata. It's so good, but kind of an aquired taste- it's a bit sweet for some peoople.

Same as any other day of my life...one of the following three things: Water, Club Soda and Seltzer. These don't vary much although I will admit to craving an ice-infused (slushy) drink once in a while during the dog days of summer (which down here in FL are MISERABLE).

I drink hot coffee year round, and seltzer ... but my cocktail choices are definitely seasonal. Love mojitos and margaritas in the summer.

For warming up, I like Earl Gray tea with a drop of honey. Or warm apple cider. For warming up and a huge treat, Jacques Torres' spicy hot chocolate, made with Mexican spices. It's sooooo goooood, but I have to share a cup because it's so rich, it gives me a stomachache (worth it though!).

Water is always my drink of choice, but I enjoy an occasional iced coffee during the summer, extra strong.

Water out of the tap is my choice at work, for me it's out of laziness and lack of equipment that I don't want the possibility of getting stolen from my (locked) office.

Otherwise, it would be chilled sencha or genmaicha all year 'round, and mugicha in the summer only.

When I am in the mood for something different and don't care about the diarrhea that follows, I'll order a green tea frappucino from the Starbucks at our cafeteria any time of year. It's a bit too sweet, but I've always liked the dry bitterness of maccha and enjoyed maccha desserts, like cake and mochi, because it's not traditionally very sweet.

I've been looking forward to the warm weather coming back so I can make mojitos. The syrupy mojitos that bars serve are way too sweet for me, but a mildly sweet homemade mojito is quite refreshing on a warm summer evening.

Non- Alcoholic -- Un-sweetened ice tea with lemon or water
Alcoholic - Moscow mule

For alcoholic I love to make margaritas using fresh summer fruit like strawberries and bananas, mango mojitos with fresh mint, I've also had a delicious kiwi passion fruit mojito at a local restaurant that is amazing.
Nonalcoholic- half and half (iced tea mixed with lemonade) and slurpees/slushees.

I'm with sheeats! Corona with lime is perfect for summer! Or I love seasonal microbrews like Bell's Oberon.

Non-alcoholic, I love iced coffee with cream, iced tea, lemonade or cold water with lemon.

Well...we don't have warm weather...we have hot as heck weather. Anything frozen...iced coffees...water mostly.

It's perpetual summer here in Miami and my drinks of choice are cold seltzer (by the case) and mojitos!

I know it's really summer when it's warm enough to sit at a bar or restaurant with outdoor seating and order a gin and tonic.

At home I drink decaf iced green tea, no sugar.

iced green tea is delicious

PerkyMac- We usually stuff the lime wedges into the neck of the bottle, and then stuff our thumbs into the neck and turn the bottle upside down to fully immerse the lime wedge in beer (this is optional of course, and best done when you're outside and wearing clothes you can spill on).

I love beers that are garnished with fruit wedges, like Corona or Blue Moon. It's so much fancier.

@LiveToEat, so helpful......thanks! I'm afraid my thumb might get stuck, so I'll try my middle finger.

Seriously, aren't there some rituals where they suck on a piece of lime and then drink? Maybe that's tequila. I'm not much of a drinker and I'm trying beer for the second time in my life, so forgive my ignorance. I hope your reply was tongue-in-cheek.

For most of the year it's red wine or sparkling, but when the weather warms up, I'm all about the whites.
Good white wine--all last spring&summer, I kept on hand the 2004, Inama, Soave Classico...turned a bunch of red wine drinkers onto it.
A good Sancerre or Quincy or dry Rose...There's nothing like a day of shopping in the Spring and then going to our favorite brasserie for a cool glass of dry rose and some nibbles...

When "the girls" are coming over:
Margaritas--mostly good tequila, Cointreau, real lime juice, splash of sours, splash of OJ, shaken on the rocks. The slushy stuff out of a machine? I only do that if I know that is the ony way you'll drink it.

When the mint threatens to swallow a small child--hubby makes the best mojitos and juleps. I don't like bourbon, but I like his juleps. Actually he's converted several vodka drinkers with his juleps...

I have some friends (mostly older) who drink brown liquor in the fall & winter and clear liquor in the late spring & summer.

Wow--you all must think all I do is drink! But, I eat, too.

Non-alcohol: iced coffee, all the time.
Mornings are difficult b/c iced coffee seems to require more coordination than regular coffee.

Green Tea Chai

MadelynRodriguez, your Michelada is missing the key ingredient: hot sauce, or Tabasco. Without it, it's just a Cubana (beer+lime+salt). Michelada is like the beer version of a Bloody Mary; some people I know take the Tabasco one step further and put in tomato juice, too. Gross, but...different strokes, and all. :) :) :)

sheeats -- i've seen ones without hot sauce called micheladas all over central-western mexico (jalisco, nayarit, colima etc). not just tourist spots either, by people who grew up there. apparently it's a regional thing.

no matter how you make it, it's one of the most refreshing drinks in the world.

@JEP & wookie: we make our iced coffee in a Toddy (cold-brew method) and just mix with sugar and cream by the cup every morning. Toddy brewing is also lower in acid, which is nice.

My preferred warm weather drinks (other than iced coffee) include basil lemonade and iced tea.

I like a Pimm's Cup with ginger beer, too--but not this summer, while I'm expecting.

@ricestein & h_b----googled the "Toddy" & even checked out the recipes--thanks, I would like to try that! Does anyone freeze & make coffee cubes as an extra?

Limoncello! Any interesting ideas?

I've never made coffee cubes; the Toddy is pretty strong without added caffeine! (Toddy makes, essentially, a concentrate. If you add water, it becomes coffee-strength. But we usually add the cream and sugar straight to the Toddy, with the only added water coming from ice cubes. It makes a stronger drink, more akin to an iced latte.)

@ sheets - I learned about micheladas like that in Mexico (without the hot sauce) and have had them with the tabasco shot too... but in the US.

But you know what... the Cubana name is soooooo appropriate, because I am 1/2 Cubana. I now like them even more.

I"ve made the coffee ice cubes with my toddy brew, full stregnth, then thrown a few in the blender with some soy milk and a little simple syrup, now there is an iced lattee to die for! I'll have to try your idea though Ricestein, I usually just make it with water and keep it regular stregnth.
Btw do you add anything to it? I add a little vanilla or cinnamon to it and it really amps up the flavor without being obvious.

For the most part I confine myself to water and coffee, year-round, but orzata embodies summer, for me.