I think you’ve mentioned this before. I finally tried one this past weekend and I really liked it. I’ve made “wine spritzers” before (wine and carbonated water) but the Coke really ramped the taste up a notch.
Thanks, and cheers!
“Wasting away, again, in Beegaritaville…”
I’ll work on it and get back to ya.
I’ll have to try that then! Thanks for the tip!
I assume some kind of light lager, like Modelo Especial or Tecate is appropriate?
Yep, it’s mostly there for the dilution effect, bubbles, and a beery taste.
My pleasure. Can’t wait for summer - it’s currently glühwein and glögi season here, not sangria season.
When my brother lived in Germany, he told me about buying it on the street around Xmas.
Yep - mulled wine is a popular vended drink in Paris, Helsinki, Geneva and Tallinn as well, in my (tasty, tasty) experience. Best glögi I’ve had was the medieval Christmas market in Tallinn Old Town, heavy on the bitter orange and they did various flavours like cherry. I also liked the vin chaud from the Champs-Elysées Christmas Market - went well with roasted chestnuts.
My recent fave is 1 part dark rum, 2 parts seltzer and 1 part pineapple juice. Not too sweet, very quenching and summery.
I always associate Pimm’s cup with New Orleans.
I love a good Pimm’s Cup, but instead of the lime soda, I use alcoholic ginger beer.
What exactly is Sweet & Sour? Never mind, I guess it’s something like this.
A neighbor brought something that seemed to be based on various flavored liquors. I’m trying to get the recipe from him. He said it called for (among others) melon liqueur which he tried, and found vile, so he left that out.
Paloma:
Grapefruit juice, lime juice, soda, and tequila over ice. Or if you’re feeling a bit lazy, grapefruit soda and tequila.
I actually prefer the grapefruit soda (Jarritos) version, as long as lime juice is added as well. The grapefruit juice isn’t sweet enough, and gets bitter fast.
Mojitos are hard to beat though, even if they’re a bit cliched.
Muddle some mint in the bottom of a collins glass (or highball glass, I suppose). Add 2 oz light rum, about 1 oz simple syrup, and 1 oz lime juice. Stir it together well, add ice, and fill up the rest of the way (or as much as you like) with seltzer/club soda, and give it another gentle stir.
If you want it to be gorgeous looking (doesn’t affect the taste), strain out the mint pieces before adding the ice, leaving the mint-infused syrup/rum/lime juice in the glass, and continue as before. Garnish with a mint spring.
A friend offered me a “ghetto julep” from a pitcher this past weekend. It was kind of good
He filled a pitcher with ice, poured in Tom Tucker Mint Ginger Ale and Bourbon. That was it.
Had this before and it is a great summer refreshing drink.
Madre de Dios, someone actually beat me to calimocho!
Legend has it it was created by a Spanish student in the US who found himself being asked for sangria and without the base ingredient gaseosa, a clear lemony soda not as sweet as Sprite. He substituted Cocacola.
Slammer / machacao: beer, lemon soda, slam the glass on the counter for extra fizz (hence the name).
That sounds like one of the many variations of shandy - beer mixed with soda or a fruit ade. Most common are ginger ale or lemonade - yours kind of splits the difference.
Lately there has been a surge of brewers producing it in a larger variety, as a pre-made product. Yum 
Pimms, yum. We had a pitcher-full at my kid’s grad a few weeks ago. A measly £19, in contrast to the £45 and £75 bottles of bubbly the posh, and wannabe posh, parents were shelling out for.
My cocktail of the moment is a Lavender Piscine, though after having recently made twenty of them at a party, I wouldn’t recommend them for a crowd.
Make giant ice cubes in giant ice cube trays from lavender tea.
Put an ice cube in a large, fancy wine glass.
Add 1 oz Herbes de Provence simple syrup.
Top with champagne (or dry sparkling wine, if not posh).
Garnish with a sprig of lavender.
Don’t you mean aromatized wine-based drink? Or are you flying to Spain or Portugal to make it? 
Hate for you to get in trouble with Europol.
I think that’s only a problem if I’m bottling it. Oh well, if I fly to Europe some time and arrest me on arrival I guess we’ll know :D.