These 5 Grilled Cocktails Will Make Your Summer

Summertime’s signature cocktails and mocktails are all built around the freshest, juiciest fruits of the season. Think of everything from sweet pineapples in mai tais to citrusy lemonade. Now, grill that fruit and you’re looking at a whole new level of intensified flavor from the smoky, caramelized juices. So, light up the grill and let’s make some drinks!

Photo by Vanessa Greaves

Grilled Cocktails

I recently teamed up with Matt Wencl — a fellow Allrecipeep from our video team — to work out 5 grilled cocktails for you to try this summer. There was a whole lot of learning and tweaking along the way, but I hope you’ll enjoy the results.

1. Grilled Pineapple Mai Tai

Grilled pineapple is the winning move in this fired-up twist on a classic tropical cocktail. We even grilled the cherries for garnishing, because why not? This will totally crush it at your next tiki party.

Photo by Vanessa Greaves

2. Grilled Gazpacho Bloody Mary

While we were standing around the grill, the aroma of the sizzling tomatoes, onions, garlic, and peppers for the Bloody Mary mix made our mouths water! And the flavor of all those vegetables blended together was so robust, we really could have eaten this with a spoon. That’s why we’re calling it Gazpacho Bloody Mary. It’s a soup! It’s a cocktail! It’s everything!

Photo by Vanessa Greaves

3. Grilled Peach Bourbon Smash

Sweet smoky grilled peaches muddled with grilled lemon and mint, shaken up with bourbon, and topped with ginger ale. Tell me when to stop, because this cocktail can’t.

Photo by Vanessa Greaves

4. Grilled Grapefruit Paloma Cocktail

I always order a Paloma at my favorite Mexican restaurant in Seattle, so I wanted to try doing a grilled version. There’s a smoky undertone that makes the flavors deeper and more complex, but the cocktail was still as refreshing as I was hoping it would be.

Photo by Vanessa Greaves

5. Grilled Lemon Limeade

Caramelizing the citrus on the grill darkens the color of this family-friendly mocktail, but once you taste it you might decide that plain old lemonade is just missing something. Want to make a grown-up version? A slug of vodka or gin should do it.

Photo by Vanessa Greaves

Related

• Keep your cool with 12 easy boozy frozen treats.
• Get ideas for food and fun in our Guide to Summer Entertaining.
• Find all the drinks recipes you need to refresh yourself.

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