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The Old-Fashioned has to be on this list, partly because you need booze, sugar, water, and bitters, and because you can make it with bourbon, rye, rum, or scotch.

Add a barspoon of sugar, a barspoon of water, and 2-4 dashes of bitters. Muddle until most of the sugar is dissolved (if it doesn't all dissolve, that is ok). Add two ounces of booze. Top with cracked ice. Stir until well chilled, and serve with the ice, or strain into fresh ice.

Add an orange twist if you use bourbon, a lemon twist if you use rye. Pineapple simple syrup is awesome with rum. Use less sugar with scotch.

French 75 - legendary drinker Ernest Hemingway said it was like getting hit with a French 75 machine gun

Ingredients

2 ounces London dry gin
ounce fresh lemon juice
ounce simple syrup
2 ounces Champagne
Long spiral lemon twist (for serving)
Preparation

Combine gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice, cover, and shake vigorously until outside of shaker is very cold, about 20 seconds.
Strain cocktail through a Hawthorne strainer or a slotted spoon into a large flute. Top with Champagne; garnish with lemon twist.

Good thread! You folks weren't joking about the Ranch Water, that is one legit refreshing beverage.

Also recently discovered the Ranch Water. Big fan

Beer Margs or Tequila Punch

Large frozen limeade in a pitcher
Fill said empty limeade with your favorite tequila & pour into pitcher
Stir until frozen limeade is mixed
I can 7up
1 bottle DosXX
Orange squeeze (or Cointreau or grand manner splash)
Two handfuls of ice
Stir & consume, preferably in a red solo cup by the pool

GIN FIZZ

• 2 oz London Dry Gin
• 1/2 oz Fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 oz fresh lime Juice
• 3/4 oz Simple Syrup
• 1 Egg white (about 1/2 oz)
• 1 oz Club soda

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Add the first five ingredients to a shaker and dry-shake (without ice) for about 10 seconds.

Add 3 or 4 ice cubes and shake very well.

Double-strain into a chilled fizz glass and top with club soda.

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Some of yall have different ideas of what quick means relating to quick cocktails.

Cuba Libre

Rum
Coke
Fresh Lime Squeeze and garnish

CactusThomas said:

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Some of yall have different ideas of what quick means relating to quick cocktails.

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Had the same thought...quick recipe "well you take these 5 ingredients and do these 10 steps Viola best drink ever simple!"

The Darcy Farrow
2 oz Bulleit Rye Whiskey
1/4 oz Ginger Simple Syrup
3-4 Dashes Angostura bitters
Fresh peeled ginger
Ginger ale

to make this "quick and easy" to fit the theme of the thread pre-make a bottle of the syrup and keep ready in fridge and can omit the fresh ginger if in a hurry as well.

Its a spicy cool beverage that has bite and is still refreshing.

Keeper of The Spirits said:

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French 75 - legendary drinker Ernest Hemingway said it was like getting hit with a French 75 machine gun

Ingredients

2 ounces London dry gin
ounce fresh lemon juice
ounce simple syrup
2 ounces Champagne
Long spiral lemon twist (for serving)
Preparation

Combine gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice, cover, and shake vigorously until outside of shaker is very cold, about 20 seconds.
Strain cocktail through a Hawthorne strainer or a slotted spoon into a large flute. Top with Champagne; garnish with lemon twist.

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Username checks out! Had one of these for the first time last night and it was damned tasty. I think they used a dry cider instead of champagne but still a good summer cocktail.

Classic easy summertime cocktail is the Gin and Tonic. Get some decent tonic water like Fever Tree or Q Tonic, pre-cut a lime or two into wedges and keep the wedges in a tupperware in the fridge so you can grab one when needed. If that's too much trouble, just buy a squirt bottle of lime juice from the produce section.

2 oz. gin over ice
as much tonic as you like
wedge of lime (or quirt of lime juice)

If you want to cut the calories, replace the tonic water with club soda and double the lime. Quick, delicious, refreshing.

If you're swapping soda for tonic I'd recommend Hendricks Orbium as the gin. The quinine and wormwood add bitterness that you'd otherwise get from the tonic.

Tequila Sunrise:

2 oz. of tequila, I like Codigo
1 oz. of Grenadine (if you don't like it as sweet, just one dash should do)
6 oz. Orange Juice- if you're into pulp, this makes the drink even better IMO

I wouldn't consider most of these as quick cocktails, but I digress.

Add some elderflower liqueur (St. Germain) to the French 75 to take it to another level.

It's also tasty replacing the gin in the French 75 with vodka (French 76), or elderflower liqueur (French 77).

Scala Fenicia

Prosecco
Limoncello (mine is homemade)
mint leaves

We have been doing the following quite a bit lately. I am usually just a bourbon on ice guy but I have been enjoying this. Highly recommend.

2oz bourbon
3/4 oz simple syrup
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice.

shake with ice, strain into glass w large ice cube. My wife likes to top with a mint leaf - taste delicious with or without the mint though.

Also most probably know this but in case you don't.... simple syrup is just equal parts water & sugar. Place in saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves. We make a big batch at a time and store in fridge.

So it's essentially a whiskey sour without the egg white. I love the mixture of whiskey and lemon juice.

+1 on ranch water. Super delicious. Sometimes I'll use grapefruit topo Chico and/or add a squeeze of agave

-Large Sonic limeade, purchased between 2-4pm
-Slowly sip limeade on way home
-Fill with tequila

Nice summer drink:
Sea Breeze - 2 oz vodka
4 oz cranberry juice
1 oz ruby red grapefruit juice
squeeze of key lime
Shake, pour over ice (crushed is better)