What's your most refreshing drink?

[skyshrimp]

I drink a lot of bitter lemon. I don't think you have it in the USA. In the UK, it's cloudy lemonade with quinine which is used as a mixer, but I drink it as is with loads of ice.

I once added a little citric acid powder to orange juice to make it sour. That tasted nice and refreshing. I'd like to add quinine hydrochloride to juice to see what that tastes like.

Coca-Cola has a nice bite which I think is mainly due to the phosphoric acid. It really hits the back of your throat when you gulp down an ice cold can. I'd like to experiment one day and make Coca-Cola a little stronger by adding more phosphoric acid. Then I wonder how much is in there already and how much more I could add safely.

What's your go to drink on a hot day?

 

[fresh_42]

I would stay away from any "modifications", especially with acids. Bitter lemon and ginger ale are best the way they are! I always find grapefruit juice very similar to bitter lemon, so it's a kind of an alternative. As strange as it may sound, but I like to mix coke with apple juice, eventually some citric acid added. And I was glad as I recently found birch juice. It tastes a bit like the juice made from elder flowers, which I also like very much.

 

[Vanadium 50]

I drink a lot of bitter lemon. I don't think you have it in the USA.

You can get it if you know where to look. Polar, Canada Dry and Fever Tree make it, and specialty shops import it.

 

[DennisN]

I recently discovered Ginger Joe Non-alcoholic Ginger Beer, which I really, really liked.

I also like mineral water/club soda, elderflower juice, ginger ale and lemon drinks.

 

[skyshrimp]

Last summer, I made a really nice shake. You'll need Irish cream liqueur like Baileys. Not the cheap one with wine in it. You want the one that's whiskey and cream. Mix it in your blender with vanilla ice cream and full fat milk. The shake is amazing.

If you like coffee try this. Put a heap spoonful of coffee granules and four tablespoons of sugar in a glass with a little water. Nuke it in the microwave for a few seconds to melt it. Be careful as it will bubble up fast and overflow if you don't keep an eye on it. It takes about 20 seconds.

Transfer this to a cool glass full to the brim with ice and fill with full fat milk.

 

[Mark44]

If I've been out in the yard on a warm summer's day, my favorite refresher is a big glass of limeade on ice. The brand available here in the US is Simply ____, where the underscored part is one of several flavors, including limeade, lemonade, peach, orange, lemon-mango, and several others.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Irn bru - made from girders!

 

[Vanadium 50]

Pocari sweat!

 

[phinds]

I drink Coke. I do NOT drink Pepsi

 

[Nugatory]

Seltzer and orange juice, 2:1 ratio.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I've really gotten into Kombucha lately!

 

[StatGuy2000]

My go to drink for the summer is ice-cold barley tea (called mugicha in Japan). It's super-refreshing on a hot day!

 

[jim hardy]

A spoonful of honey plus a spoonful of apple cider vinegar in 8 oz of water, over ice in a frosted mug.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Nobody likes Pocari Sweat? With a name like that, it's got to be good!

 

[StatGuy2000]

Nobody likes Pocari Sweat? With a name like that, it's got to be good!

I've never heard of this drink until you have brought it up (apparently it's a Japanese drink that was launched a year before our family left the country).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocari_Sweat

Perhaps this should belong in the Linguistics thread, but "sweat" in this context is an example of wasei-eigo (Japanese words deliberately borrowed from English to convey certain uncharacteristic ideas, often deviating from the original meaning of the word).

 

[Dadface]

Tea and sometimes coffee. Milk if I fancy a cold drink.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Pocari Sweat tastes kind of like flat Fresca. But I love the name!

 

[Borg]

Water. Yes, that's mainly what I drink all the time.

 

[DennisN]

Water. Yes, that's mainly what I drink all the time.

Go easy on it. Too much can be poisonous*. And way too much can make you drown.

* EDIT: Which I know from personal experience, actually. A couple of years ago I accidentally got hyponatremia, because I drank too much due to various reasons (it was very hot, and I was walking a lot). Hyponatremia was really scary to have.

 

[Shalgam]

I try to stay away from fizzy drinks for almost a year. I have been quite successful so far. My alternative is usually lemonade.

 

[phyzguy]

What's going on? Does nobody else like a cold beer on a hot day? Beer is definitely my "go-to" thirst quencher.

 

[fresh_42]

What's going on? Does nobody else like a cold beer on a hot day? Beer is definitely my "go-to" thirst quencher.

And it's isotonic!

 

[Lisa!]

Cold water!

 

[Bystander]

Not bad for the hot day. :)

No "ice cream headache?"

 

[Mark44]

Nobody likes Pocari Sweat? With a name like that, it's got to be good!

I'm boycotting this product -- I don't support exploiting those poor Pocaris working away literally in a sweat shop.

 

[Mark44]

Water. Yes, that's mainly what I drink all the time.

For me, the most refreshing drink when I'm backpacking on a high ridge in the Olympic or Cascade mountains is cool water. On a warm day I frequently will drink five or six quarts. Even though it doesn't seem I'm sweating all that much, I know I'm losing a lot of water due to perspiration drying immediately as well as losing water vapor from breathing hard.

I sometimes add some of the electrolyte replacement powder, such as Gookinade, a tub of which I finally used up. When you're really working hard and sweating a lot, these electrolyte replacement powders help restore the salts, of various kinds, that you lose through perspiration.

 

[fresh_42]

For me, the most refreshing drink when I'm backpacking on a high ridge in the Olympic or Cascade mountains is cool water. On a warm day I frequently will drink five or six quarts.

On these occasions I find it best to drink from a cool mountain creek. It tastes so much better than ordinary drinking water, but maybe it's just the environment that makes me feel so.

 

[Mark44]

On these occasions I find it best to drink from a cool mountain creek. It tastes so much better than ordinary drinking water, but maybe it's just the environment that makes me feel so.

When I'm in the mountains, we get most of our water from creeks, but we filter it first. The water is probably OK as is, but the risk of contracting giardiasis is enough of a risk that we don't mind the extra work of filtering the water first. However, I'll scoop snow out of a snowfield directly into my (wide-mouth) water bottle. Sometimes I have to scrape off some of the surface detritus to get down to clean snow.

 

[pinball1970]

Does nobody else like a cold beer on a hot day? Beer is definitely my "go-to" thirst quencher.

I'm a Mancunian (Uk) and we know about proper beers but we have an import to our shores last few years from 5 point New York - Bengali Tiger. Its crisp sharp citrus strong and lively. After one hour of sport on a summers day it is perfect. 6.4% it is also not to be taken lightly. Very cheeky typical American take on a classic, this time on Belgium. great Love it.