Five Cocktails – Summer Of 2025

FIVE SUMMER COCKTAILS FOR NOW

Here are the Summer cocktails we’re enjoying right now, right here. Some because we’re making the most of ingredients we can currently find easily. Others are combos that might become embarrassing if society becomes snootier.

Let’s live in the moment. We’ll never have another Summer of 2025!

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Huggy Bear

This hardly qualifies as a recipe. It’s more like another way to drink stout. However, as the anecdote testifies, we can get still it wrong.

You get the calming effect of a deep draught of black beer followed by a musky, awakening smell of coffee in the back of your nose.

Stout can fill you up. Oddly, I can drink a few of these, in a row.

Huggy Bear envelopes you like thick, cosy, fur then shoves you onto the dance floor to embarrass your kids.

Recipients: Guests with mature palates

Type: Made in glass

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Bloody Michelle

Bloody Michelle dwells in a delicious no man’s land. She is more rounded and mellow than a michelada and less thickly rich than a classic bloody mary. Okay, her country is less like no man’s land and more like everyone’s paradise.

Recipients: Friends who are squeamish about bloody maries due to their variable intensity and viscosity.

Type: Made in the glass, interactive.

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Lagerita

This goes down easily. I suggest serving it at the start of your event and not all night.

Confession: I am unashamedly borrowing the basis of this from Nigella Lawson. I’m pretty sure she didn’t invent it, so I think it’s okay.

Recipients: Those about to party hard, at a party at which you need to break the ice, fast.

Type: Jug

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