# This will be my summer drink **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking, liquor-alcohol\ **Created:** [March 26, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736 "2021-03-26T01:33:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/1 "2021-03-26T01:33:17Z")
You–and I cannot stress this enough–are welcome [![](https://i.ibb.co/KqkdYKR/New-Holland-Blueberry-Gin-Lemonade-RTD.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/KqkdYKR/New-Holland-Blueberry-Gin-Lemonade-RTD.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/2 "2021-03-26T01:38:50Z")
I should thank you for showing me something that is not being sold anywhere near me? 😠 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/3 "2021-03-26T02:15:06Z")
It does sound good. Where can this be had? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/4 "2021-03-26T02:16:03Z")
No offense, but it looks as horrible as Naturdays, strawberry lemonade flavored Natty light. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/5 "2021-03-26T10:54:09Z")
Moving this to Cafe society. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/6 "2021-03-26T11:50:57Z")
So not Peepsi? > **[Peepsi? Pepsi's newest flavor has Peeps in it](https://www.ksl.com/article/50133561/peepsi-pepsis-newest-flavor-has-peeps-in-it)** > > Good news, Peeps fans! Not only will Peeps be back on store shelves in time for Easter, but they'll come in a new form too. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/7 "2021-03-26T12:14:49Z")
Does that can say it’s 9% alcohol? That’s packing a pretty good punch for a commercial hard lemonade product. Those things are always too sweet for my taste, though. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/8 "2021-03-26T12:17:31Z")
Is it really gin in a can, or is it a malt beverage made to taste like gin in a can? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/9 "2021-03-26T12:21:11Z")
I like the Last Word, although I use Yellow Chartreuse for a mellower drink. > **[The Last Word Cocktail](https://www.davidlebovitz.com/the-last-word-cocktail-recipe/)** > > While I wish that I could try everything and go to all the places that are suggested to me. I used to keep lists of restaurants and bakeries in Paris that I intended to go to. Then, invariably, a few weeks later, that list would get updated with... ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/10 "2021-03-26T18:42:34Z")
Here’s my drinking magnum opus so far. It’s a spreadsheet that calculates how to make some popular frozen drinks in a specific way. [Frozen drinks recipes](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ziTNLem7kDM-VeKiTQk2W02NRVUVCCtB/view?usp=sharing) Basically they are frozen drinks with the texture of a restaurant/bar style frozen margarita (small ice crystals, etc…) without needing a slurpee-type machine. And you’re not blending ice either. Basically what these do is balance the alcohol, sugar and water such that they freeze mostly, but not completely solid, and then you blend them with whatever fruit juice it calls for, and you end up with a fantastic frozen drink. The daiquiri recipe is straight from Dave Arnold’s “Liquid Intelligence”, and the margarita is a riff off of that which I developed through lots of arduous testing. I’m pretty proud of it! The tiki drink is sort of an amalgamation of a bunch of tiki drinks from “Smuggler’s Cove” and the Beachbum Berry books, adapted for this frozen drink method. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/11 "2021-03-26T18:47:36Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Is it really gin in a can, or is it a malt beverage made to taste like gin in a can Real gin. [All Spirits - New Holland Spirits in Holland, MI (newhollandbrew.com)](https://www.newhollandbrew.com/spirits/#canned-cocktails/) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/12 "2021-03-26T21:02:22Z")
Looks promising, then. I’ve been fooled a few times with malt liquors masquerading as something more. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/13 "2021-03-26T21:08:28Z")
Perhaps you have influenced me after all and they are local to me. Although for me its more along the lines of taking flavored spirits and mixing them myself with sugar free lemonade sports drinks since I am a diabetic. But its got me thinking of expanding my drinking hobby. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/14 "2021-03-26T21:55:37Z")
If I’m honest this will be for special occasions; my daily 'bibe is Vodker-n-Fresca. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/15 "2021-03-26T22:10:35Z")
There are a lot of canned cocktails out now. Some of the are very regionalized. Many of them are pretty good. Also, bottled cocktails that are “higher class” than your TGIFs mudslides. (There is a bottle of Tattersalls Old Fashioned waiting to be opened when my husband gets home). But you want the canned cocktails, not the malt liquor crap. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/16 "2021-03-27T00:15:23Z")
Cheers! 🍻 ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/17 "2021-03-27T01:59:32Z")
Sorry, nothing canned is even close to my beloved G & Ts. Interesting combo of flavours though. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/18 "2021-03-27T14:31:27Z")
I stopped at a liquor store yesterday afternoon and I kept an eye out for the OP’s beverage of choice to see if they carried it (I’m in Michigan so I thought there’d be a fair chance) but they did not. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/19 "2021-03-27T15:44:12Z")
I found it Binny’s, if that helps at all ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736/20 "2021-03-27T16:15:22Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Moving this to Cafe society. Why don’t we have a SDMB Bar forum? Call it « Cecil’s Joint ». 🕶 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-will-be-my-summer-drink/938736.md?page=2)