So it's hot again! What's the most refreshing drink?
So it's hot again! What's the most refreshing drink?
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Witchfinder

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6,388 posts

282 months

Sunday 23rd May 2010
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Personally, I'm fond of a hot cup of tea, an iced pear cider, or a gin-and-tonic (with lime and ice) on a hot day. What do other PHers drink on a hot day to cool down?

Henry Hawthorne

6,550 posts

246 months

Sunday 23rd May 2010
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Sparkling water. lick

Mobile Chicane

22,015 posts

242 months

Sunday 23rd May 2010
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Hendrick's gin with cucumber slices and Fevertree low sugar tonic.

Or, Mojito with *lots* of mint.

AndrewW-G

11,968 posts

247 months

Sunday 23rd May 2010
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Sparkling water with lots of ice and a slice of lemon, lime, orange or apple

Wadeski

9,046 posts

243 months

Sunday 23rd May 2010
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Jug of ice water with a dash of Angostura bitters is nice.

Forthright MC

8,362 posts

313 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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Witchfinder said:
iced pear cider
You mean Perry. Theres no such thing as "Pear Cider" thats just a name made up by faceless drinks companies who make syrup water instead of the real thing (which has been made with pressed pears for hundreds of years and is actually a jolly nice drink at its best enjoyed in a pub served straight from a plastic barrel without ice!)

Something along the lines of this for me please! -




Gaffer

7,156 posts

307 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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pimms. demolishd 3 big bottles today betwen 4.5 peopke.

sherman

15,297 posts

245 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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Forthright MC said:
Witchfinder said:
iced pear cider
You mean Perry. Theres no such thing as "Pear Cider" thats just a name made up by faceless drinks companies who make syrup water instead of the real thing (which has been made with pressed pears for hundreds of years and is actually a jolly nice drink at its best enjoyed in a pub served straight from a plastic barrel without ice!)
Pear cider = NOT made with perry pears but still made with other pears

Perry = Made with Perry Pears in the perry producing areas of England only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry

juice

9,907 posts

312 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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Corona with Lime

or a Dark N Stormy

Colin 1985

1,936 posts

200 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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Gaffer said:
pimms. demolishd 3 big bottles today betwen 4.5 people.
You're cannibals?

Stu R

21,663 posts

245 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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Mobile Chicane said:
Hendrick's gin with cucumber slices and Fevertree low sugar tonic.

Or, Mojito with *lots* of mint.
Haven't tried it with fevertree (nor heard of it for that matter) but I otherwise agree on both counts yes

Mr.Jimbo

2,084 posts

213 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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I like pear cider, but only Kopparberg for some reason, Ice cold and the sunshine = perfection at the minute. Strange, I used to be a big cider drinker, gone off it now... Kopparberg is the only one I like!

Have to say, nice cold Carlsberg Export in the Beer garden in the sun the other day was awesome!

shakotan

10,862 posts

226 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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sherman said:
Forthright MC said:
Witchfinder said:
iced pear cider
You mean Perry. Theres no such thing as "Pear Cider" thats just a name made up by faceless drinks companies who make syrup water instead of the real thing (which has been made with pressed pears for hundreds of years and is actually a jolly nice drink at its best enjoyed in a pub served straight from a plastic barrel without ice!)
Pear cider = NOT made with perry pears but still made with other pears

Perry = Made with Perry Pears in the perry producing areas of England only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry
WHS

'Perry' is a bit like 'Champagne', it's not really champagne unless the grapes are grown in the Champagne region. Same with perry.

RonJohnson

341 posts

201 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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Pastis. Lots of.

Witchfinder

Original Poster:

6,388 posts

282 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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Gaffer said:
pimms.
Ahhh! Good call. Most refreshing.

Simpo Two

92,944 posts

295 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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shakotan said:
'Perry' is a bit like 'Champagne', it's not really champagne unless the grapes are grown in the Champagne region. Same with perry.
I see the angle but there isn't an area of England called Perry.

sleep envy

62,260 posts

279 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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bitters, lime, lemon, vodka, ice

Plotloss

67,280 posts

300 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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papabear

14,232 posts

224 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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thirst quenching only as it lacks alcohol, J20 orange & passion in a pint glass filled to the top with soda water, served ice cold.


pugwash4x4

7,682 posts

251 months

Monday 24th May 2010
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real ice cold home made lemonade for me- a lovely balance of sharp and sweet with a very lemony flavour- its very tasty flat and even nicer bubbly