Perfect summer cocktails: ideal for you and your girlfriends

Want to pamper yourself a little? Then try these top cocktails!

5 best cocktails for this summer:

Hugo cocktail with elderberry syrup and strawberries

Ingridients

• 1.5 dl sparkling wine
• 0.3 dl of elderberry syrup
• mineral water (to taste)
• 3 strawberries
• 1 lime wedge
• 8 mint leaves
• ice

Preparation
Clean the strawberries and cut them into quarters. Crush the ice cubes and shake into a glass. Add lime. Add elderberry syrup to the sparkling wine and pour it into a glass over crushed ice. Add strawberries. Crush the mint leaves with your fingers to release the essential oil. Then shake them into a glass. Add cold mineral water to taste and mix everything well. Serve the drink immediately.

A mojito

Ingridients

• lime (3 cl of lime juice and lime pieces)
• 5 cl of white rum
• 8 fresh mint leaves
• 2 teaspoons of brown sugar
• Mineral Water

Preparation
Shake lime juice, mint leaves and brown sugar in a low cocktail glass. Crush the ingredients with an ice hammer so that the mint releases its wonderful aroma. Fill the glass with crushed ice and add rum. Add a little mineral water and garnish with a sprig of mint and a straw. You can rub the rim of the glass with mint leaves, and you can add a few pieces of lime to the cocktail for a better look and an even more pleasant taste.

Caipiroska

Ingridients

• 50 ml of vodka
• a large slice of watermelon
• two tablespoons of cane sugar
• half a lime, cut into three parts

Preparation
A caipiroska is a version of the Brazilian caipirinha, except that it contains vodka. Mash the watermelon to a mushy texture and 'pour' it into a glass with sugar and lime. Then add 50 ml of vodka and ice and mix the ingredients well with a spoon.

The perfect gin and tonic

Ingridients

• fresh green lime
• 50 ml of gin
• 100 ml of tonic
• ice cubes directly from the freezer

Preparation
First, roll the lime ten times on the cutting board with the palm of your hand, which will make it easier to squeeze out the juice. Then cut the lime lengthwise. Place it on the board with the flat parts and cut each lengthwise into four parts. So you will get 8 pieces for perfect compression. Take one of the lime wedges between your thumb and forefinger and squeeze the juice into the bottom of the glass. Throw the rest in a glass.

Then take a bottle of gin and count to five while pouring the gin. This should pour 50ml of gin. If you don't trust your bartending skills, pour the gin with a scoop. Then fill the glass to the top with ice. Open the bottle of tonic (and nothing before) and add 100 ml of tonic to the gin. When the bubbles have subsided, stir the drink with a long spoon. If necessary, add enough ice to bring the drink up to about an inch below the rim of the glass.

Then add another piece of lime, this time don't squeeze it first. This will make the drink even tastier and also visually more beautiful. At the end, add a straw to the gin and tonic if desired.

Brina cocktail

Ingridients

• 30 ml of Slovenian gin
• 30 ml of chilled ginger tea (boil 100 g of ginger in water, drain, cool)
• 30 ml of apple juice
• 10 ml of lemon juice
• 80 ml of Fever-Tree Aromatic tonic
• a rolled slice of lemon peel
• a slice of red apple
• ice

Preparation
Mix the gin, ginger tea and apple and lemon juice well in a cocktail shaker. Pour the mixture into a glass filled with ice. Add Fever-Tree Aromatic tonic to a glass and add a slice of lemon. Garnish with a slice of red apple.