Great Beach Cocktail Recipes
Add some spice to your beach vacation with some great beach cocktail drinks.
Here are some of the best beach cocktails that you can make yourself.
Mai Tai Cocktail
Mai Tai is on of the most famous cocktails all over the world. Mai Tai translates from Tahitian to mean “Out of this World.”
Mai Tai Cocktail Recipe:
Pour light rum, almond creme and triple sec, in order, into a glass. Almost fill with equal parts of sweet and sour mix and pineapple juice. Add dark rum, a large straw, and serve unstirred.
Margarita Cocktail
Margarita is the most popular beach cocktail in the U.S. It was created by an American on vacation in Mexico, the home to the tequila that is essential to this drink.
Margarita Cocktail Recipe:
Rub rim of chilled cocktail glass with lemon wedge and dip in coarse salt to frost. Put cracked ice cubes in shaker with the tequila, triple sec and lime juice. Shake well. Strain into prepared glass and decorate with lime slice.
Caipirinha Cocktail
Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and a common Carnavale drink. It is made with cachaca, a very sweet Brazillian rum made from sugarcane juice.
Caipirinha Cocktail Recipe:
Squeeze the brown sugar into the lime wedges in a glass. Fill the glass with ice cubes. Pour the cachaca into the glass. Stir well. Optionally, you can add some lemonade.
Sex On The Beach Cocktail
Sex on the Beach is a very popular, delicious fruity drink that almost anyone will like. This cocktail drink has a particularly tropical feel, making it the perfect drink for summer nights and lazy afternoons.
Sex On The Beach Recipe:
Add 2 parts vodka, 1 part peach schnapps, 2 parts orange juice and 2 parts cranberry juice. Stir.
Mojito Cocktail
The Mojito is a great drink for the summer, a very nice beach cocktail which originated in Cuba.
Mojito Cocktail Recipe:
Mix the lime, mint and sugar in the bottom of a highball glass, fill with plenty of crushed ice, and add the rum. Stir well and add dash or two of syrup, to taste. Top up with soda water. Garnish with a mint spring and serve.
Strawberry Daiquiri Cocktail
Daiquiri is a traditional Latin American drink, created with rum and fruit.
Strawberry Daiquiri Recipe:
In a blender, combine ice, sugar and strawberries. Pour in lime juice, lemon juice, rum and lemon-lime soda. Blend until smooth. Pour into cocktail glasses and serve.
Tequila Sunrise Cocktail
Tequila Sunrise is a famous Mexican cocktail, great for the beach, too.
Tequila Sunrise Recipe:
Fill a high glass with ice. Pour in the tequila and add the orange juice. Mix. Carefully pour the grenadine into the tilted glass, allowing it to slip to the bottom. It should gradually work its way up a little giving the drink a reddish glow.
A Day At The Beach Cocktail
A Day at the Beach is a refreshing cocktail for those lazy moments.
A Day At The Beach Recipe:
Shake 1 oz coconut rum, 1/2 oz amaretto liqueur, and 4 oz orange juice in a shaker filled with ice. Strain into a highball glass over ice. Add 1/2 oz grenadine syrup then garnish with a pineapple wedge and a strawberry.
Beach Sunday Cocktail
Beach Sunday Recipe:
Add 2 oz vodka, 1 oz raspberry liqueur, 3 oz cranberry juice and juice of 1/2 limes.
Pour vodka and raspberry liqueur over ice. Add cranberry juice, and the freshly squeezed lime juice. Stir and serve.
