The Best Non Alcoholic Drink on a Hot Day

[Aquafire]

For my money, nothing beats a home made Ginger Beer with that extra zang..I can drink gallons of the stuff.
( altough I must admit to a growing fondness for homemade lemonade ).
What chases your taste buds drink wise that is ?
8)

[murbot]

Extra chilled Smirnoff Ice. I eat nachos with it, and the chips absorb all the alcohol.

[superkarate monkeydeathcar]

Originally posted by aquafire
For my money, nothing beats a home made Ginger Beer with that extra zang..I can drink gallons of the stuff.
( altough I must admit to a growing fondness for homemade lemonade ).
What chases your taste buds drink wise that is ?
8)
why does it have to be non-alcoholic? pray tell.
because on a hot day i always think back to my gin and lemonade drinking days. (drink to me, drink to my health, you know i don't drink anymore)

not just any lemonade, paul newman's lemonade.
any decent gin will do, although not bombay, don't ask me why, it just tastes weird.

[alcimedes]

a pitcher of either margarita (on the rocks)
http://www.theworldwidegourmet.com/drinks/tequila/margarita.jpg
or bloody mary.
http://www.outofthefryingpan.com/cocktails/images/bloody.mary.large.jpg

you can also try a lemon drop(right name?) (equal parts gin and lemon juice) or a gin and tonic, both are "summer" type drinks. and good beer. but nothing to dark. dark beers need real food, which isn't very refreshing on a hot day.

there is no truly refreshing drink on a hot summer day that has no alcohol.

[Aquafire]

Originally posted by murbot
Extra chilled Smirnoff Ice. I eat nachos with it, and the chips absorb all the alcohol.
Murbot,
" Chips that absorb all the alcohol "

Man your sitting on a veritable Gold Mine..!

Wow drink yourself stoopid and all you have to do to sober up instantly is eat some nachos...
Pure Genius

:D

[bunge]

Is Jack Daniel's considered an alcoholic drink? If so, I like simple water.

[superkarate monkeydeathcar]

i was once going to write a book entitled "the bloody marys of milwaukee".....
i did extensive exhaustive research.
in milwaukee they give you a little six ounce beer when you order a bloody. it's very dear.

[bunge]

Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
in milwaukee they give you a little six ounce beer when you order a bloody. it's very dear.

A 'pony' bottle?

[Aquafire]

Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
why does it have to be non-alcoholic? pray tell.
because on a hot day i always think back to my gin and lemonade drinking days
Ok. Given some of the nice drinks I've seen posted, I'll accept alcoholic ones too.
( I originally thought not to post alcoholic ones coz we'd done the boozy list a little while ago. especially beers.)

But since you mention Gin..well that is my favourite.

Gordon's Gin with a dash of Indian bitter tonic water, slices of lime & lemon with an island of cracked ice.
I heard somewhere that Gin is bad for the brain..but hells bells its too nice...:)

[superkarate monkeydeathcar]

no just a little juice glass, as i said it was very dear, and i remember it fondly.
as i feel i'm conjuring tennessee williams ghost i'm going to bed.

[superkarate monkeydeathcar]

Originally posted by aquafire
Ok. Given some of the nice drinks I've seen posted, I'll accept alcoholic ones too.
( I originally thought not to post alcoholic ones coz we'd done the boozy list a little while ago. especially beers.)

But since you mention Gin..well that is my favourite.

Gordon's Gin with a dash of Indian bitter tonic water, slices of lime & lemon with an island of cracked ice.
I heard somewhere that Gin is bad for the brain..but hells bells its too nice...:)

i liked gordon's but then they started selling it in a plastic bottle and i...well, i felt so cheap!

[Aquafire]

Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
as i feel i'm conjuring tennessee williams ghost i'm going to bed.
Yeah,laying back an listening to him on the radio with just the slightest waft of a breeze to disturb the cool evening air.

[Aquafire]

Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
i liked gordon's but then they started selling it in a plastic bottle and i...well, i felt so cheap!

Gordons in plastic! Good God man !

What Mindless Yobbo dreamed up that concept?

Someone needs their ass kicked real hard...:rolleyes: :grumble:

[pscates]

Gotta go with Country Time lemonade, over ice, in a nice big glass. Oooo...I'm livin' on the edge, baby! Watch out!

:D

[drewprops]

give me slightly chilled WATER!!

I mean, come on!

[murbot]

You Americans and your damn Bloody Marys! ;)

Couldn't stand it in the US, can't order a Caesar. Waiters give you this weird look like you have something oozing out of your nose. Next time I'm down there, I'm bringing a cooler full of Clamato.

:)

[Scott]

I don't think they make Clamato anymore.

[groverat]

Not slightly-chilled, but ice-cold water.

[Jonathan]

Originally posted by murbot
You Americans and your damn Bloody Marys! ;)

Couldn't stand it in the US, can't order a Caesar. Waiters give you this weird look like you have something oozing out of your nose. Next time I'm down there, I'm bringing a cooler full of Clamato.

:)

ok, murray... clam juice, crab juice... all disgusting.


honestly.

[thuh Freak]

for all seasons, i always have a few quarts of iced tea chillin in my fridge (the fake kind, with powder + water). its really good, and if u add enough of the mix u can have that sugar rush for minutes at a time.

but, on a particularly hot summer day (or any day where i happen to have a working stomach and atleast a partial liver), Guinness is good. I had a really good cider the other day, I don't remember what it was called though, with a lemony taste. That'd probably hit the spot just right on a hot day.

[drewprops]

You know, I saw some clam juice in the grocery store the other day....it was in a little glass bottle. It looked just like something you'd get out of the cooler at a convenience store. All I could think about was running off a fake label from a laser copier and sticking it onto the bottle then dropping it into a cooler at a party....man that'd be a mean joke. Don't do it though! You never know who has seafood allergies!!!

[thuh Freak]

Originally posted by Jonathan
ok, murray... clam juice, crab juice... all disgusting.


honestly.

but its gotta be better than mountain dew :p.

from episode 4f22 (illegally retransmitted transcript from snpp):
Homer: Now what do you have to wash that awful taste out of my mouth?
Vendor: Mountain Dew or crab juice.
Homer: Blecch! Ew! Sheesh! I'll take a crab juice...

[murbot]

Ah, you have a good Caesar spiced up, with a salted rim, ice, and a crisp celery stalk... you can't even really taste clams. Just pure daze-inducing bliss.

:D

[billybobsky]

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet iced tea

[superkarate monkeydeathcar]

Originally posted by aquafire
Yeah,laying back an listening to him on the radio with just the slightest waft of a breeze to disturb the cool evening air.

whereas his radio work is vastly underated,;) i was thinking more of his work as a playwright.
they always seemed be sweltering affairs. but mostly i was making a joke because i was nicking his style of prose in my posts. it was very vivian leighish.

[superkarate monkeydeathcar]

Originally posted by Scott
I don't think they make Clamato anymore.

the hell (http://www.clamato.com)

[Matsu]

Inside or out? Inside, after cooling off, hot black coffee. It could just be the extent of my addiction, but I find that it keeps me from feeling the hit of heat and humidity when I head back out. Weird.

Otherwise, real brewed Iced Tea, not form a bottle, lotsa lemon and Orange Pekoe, then a good honey to sweeten, but busy-bee in a pinch will do. Doesn't really kill the thirst if you put too much honey in it, but it tastes good.

I also find that PC brand gingerale or Coca Cola (from a glass bottle, the canned and/or plastic bottle stuff just tastes different) or root beer, any of the three, chilled to within a half degree of freezing, goes down nicely when your outside sweating.

[709]

Bloody Caesars rule. Best hangover drink ever.

[Placebo]

I like water that has been seperated into hydrogen and oxygen molecules and then combined again to form scientificaly pure H2O. I feel very sophisticated drinking isolated water. :D

[thuh Freak]

Another good nonalcoholic drink for a hot day is grapefruit juice with some peyote. Sure, it might taste good without the hallucinogen, but what's the point of that?

[Giaguara]

caipirinha.

split and squeeze a lime to a big glass, add some brown sugar to taste, then a shot of cachaça and fill with ice. if you like more cachaça use more of it, if more lime or ice, more of that. can't get any better.

and then eat some of those alcohol-absorpting chips...

[709]

That sounds lovely. What does cachaça taste like? Rum-ish? Or sweet-vodka-ish? I've only heard of, never tried. :(

[Giaguara]

it tastes rather mild ... vodkas, gins etc taste more sharp. it has some taste of sugar cane left, so if you ever have drank sugar cane juice (fresh, not canned!!) it is a bit like a mild tasting vodka with that flavour.

other good stuff:

- sugar cane juice. when it's fresh and made at the moment it's really tasty

- yerba mate. i'm nuts to drink it even cold ...

- cold espresso (sweetened) with ice crash or iced.

[superkarate monkeydeathcar]

in egypt they make a hibiscus tea that was pretty tasty, after a hard day slog in the sun and sand. it took some getting used to, but by the third day i was addicted. however i kept wondering how it would taste with gin.....

[tmp]

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or
http://www.sodapopstop.com/images/products/large_116.jpg

Galco's (http://www.sodapopstop.com/home.cfm) rules for sodas and candies that you might have thought were't made anymore. If you live in SoCal, it's worth a trip, if not, they ship anywhere, practically.

[superkarate monkeydeathcar]

sprecher root beer is made in milwaukee, and while researching my book "the bloody marys of milwaukee" i succumbed to the charms of sprecher root beer. it aroma is as fine as it's taste. it's especially delicious after an afternoon of lawn mowing.
but man it gave me the worst heart burn ever.
sprecher also makes regular beer, and it is my wifes favorite.

[Banjo Billy]

evian water. no substitutes. i dont drink anything that isnt from the french alps.

[Powerdoc]

Originally posted by Banjo Billy
evian water. no substitutes. i dont drink anything that isnt from the french alps.

Evian water is good, and since i am merely a french alp's son, i will not say the contrary. But personnaly i prefer the volcano water : Volvic. In the contrary i hate heavy mineralized water like Contrex or Vittel.

One of the most refreshing non alcoholic drink i know is the Chose : half grapefruit juice, half schweppes.

[superkarate monkeydeathcar]

Originally posted by Banjo Billy
evian water. no substitutes. i dont drink anything that isnt from the french alps.

eeeewww, i took a leak in the alps once....right on an alp.

[burningwheel]

h2o

[shetline]

Originally posted by alcimedes
there is no truly refreshing drink on a hot summer day that has no alcohol.
For me, it's the exact opposite. Alcohol on a hot day just makes me feel hot and sweaty.

Iced tea, sparking mineral water, or just plain water for me.

[Aquafire]

Originally posted by shetline
For me, it's the exact opposite. Alcohol on a hot day just makes me feel hot and sweaty.

Iced tea, sparking mineral water, or just plain water for me.

HOT TEA

Strange as this quaint custom might seem, there are many parts of the world, where their idea of a " cool me down " thirst quencher is a hot cup of tea.

Bushies in Oz use it, as do many aboriginal people ( boiling a billy & then swinging it over their heads to settle the tea leaves ).

Don't know who invented the idea, but the English Raj in India used to make it a bit of a ritual that has since become mainstream Indian culture..or was it the other way around ?
Hot tea for cooling ?

Now that IS wierd !
;) 8)

[Giaguara]

so if i say yerba mate hot and not chilled sounds normal after that? i used to drink pints of hot strong tea and not eat anything for weeks some summers ago..

[Aquafire]

Originally posted by Giaguara
so if i say yerba mate hot and not chilled sounds normal after that? i used to drink pints of hot strong tea and not eat anything for weeks some summers ago..
What's " yerba " ?:???:
As for not eating anything was this a fast thing, lack of money or an ashram guru spiritual enlightenment thing ?
:D

[tonton]

Personally, I like a nice Snapple (any flavor except diet) or maybe a Slurpee.

[Barto]

Soda Water with a twist of Lime.

For thirst quenching, I can't go past orange juice. Call me a country bumpkin.

Barto

[nixi]

Have to agree with Powerdoc: volvic is the best tasting mineral water, bar none.

[Matsu]

Originally posted by aquafire
HOT TEA

Strange as this quaint custom might seem, there are many parts of the world, where their idea of a " cool me down " thirst quencher is a hot cup of tea.


So it's not just me! Though I use coffee. You just can't have too many espressos during a day. An nice espresso, long, with a little raw sugar, not too sweet. Ummm...

Too bad starbuck's/Timothy's/2nd Cup et al, make horrible espressos. When about I have to stick to "coffee" but at home I make a killer espresso.

[tonton]

Originally posted by nixi
Have to agree with Powerdoc: volvic is the best tasting mineral water, bar none.

Absolutely. I first tried it in Paris in 1988 and have never tasted better. It really tastes crystal clear.

[Giaguara]

Originally posted by aquafire
What's " yerba " ?:???:
As for not eating anything was this a fast thing, lack of money or an ashram guru spiritual enlightenment thing ?
:D

yerba itself means herb, so one of its meanings is something to smoke ... yerba mate instead, here something about it (http://www.yerbamate.co.uk). that and tea takes away the sense of hunger of me .. for the rest, just didn't feel like eating.

[Aquafire]

Originally posted by Giaguara
yerba itself means herb, so one of its meanings is something to smoke ... yerba mate instead, here something about it (http://www.yerbamate.co.uk). that and tea takes away the sense of hunger of me .. for the rest, just didn't feel like eating.
Now I know what you mean.
Thanx.
For a moment there I thought you were slyly alluding to " Erbal " herb meaning .....weed:D Gunjagunja

But yes we have plenty of weird and wonderful herbal teas here too.

Mind you I have never tried drinking Clam juice..sounds Yuksville.

There some down here who reckon on making a Tea brewed up with gum leaves..
They say it gives them a clear head, others say it gives them visions..but mostly i've just seen them drink it, then run around like bushflies for a few minutes before falling over....:lol:

[der Kopf]

aquafire
_ posted 06-27-2003 04:10 PM

Hmmm. Somebody's up late... ;)

[Aquafire]

Originally posted by der Kopf
Hmmm. Somebody's up late... ;)

Seems awfully dark for 4.10pm

I posted it around 11.30pm local time..
Rain is thundering down outside, freezing cold too.
( well 10c is freezing for us aussies )
:D

[MGG]

I like just a plain lemonade.

[Aquafire]

Originally posted by MGG
I like just a plain lemonade.

Plain Lemonade !
Are you a Puritan or sumthin ?
:lol:

[LiquidR]

SWEET Iced Tea!!! If you don't know it, you betta recognize. 8)

[Randycat99]

HoRcHaTa water!!!

Aiyaiyaiyai! It tastes great and brings the COLD right to the core of your body. If you want alcoholic, you can always hit it with some coconut rum. They go great together!

(...and don't buy the pre-bottled stuff in a store. You got to buy da powda and mix it yourself. Goooood stuff!)

[jeffyboy]

I'll second lemonade. Those folksy Countrytime ads get me everytime! The hammock, kids running through the sprinkler, etc...

8)

Jeff

[DoctorGonzo]

a bitterly cold Dr. Pepper
Coke Slurpee
Lemonade

[xionja]

Amé :D

http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/ame/


Very very refreshing.

Originally posted by alcimedes

there is no truly refreshing drink on a hot summer day that has no alcohol.


would mix with vodka very well, for the alcimede's types out there. :)

[Jonathan]

Originally posted by Powerdoc
Evian water is good, and since i am merely a french alp's son, i will not say the contrary. But personnaly i prefer the volcano water : Volvic. In the contrary i hate heavy mineralized water like Contrex or Vittel.

volvic is the best, i agree.

i'm sure that your location has nothing to do with your preference?


;)

[Aquafire]

Interesting to note that no-one has mentioned Gator aide, Pepsi or Coke.:p