Are you the kind of person who always has an energy drink at home or who never misses a drink at a gathering of friends? vodka and the whisky aside and learn how to make new drinks with energy.
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From very tropical versions that go with the summer to stronger options for the winter, learn below some recipes that combine the flavors of different spirits, fruits, and ingredients with the crowd's favorite energy drinks. There's even a non-alcoholic one for those who don't want to mix.
Strawberry on them
This recipe combines the citrus flavors of lemon soda and strawberry with the smooth touch of hibiscus tea and the sweetness of energy drinks.
Ingredients : 200 g strawberries, 2 tablespoons sugar, 200 ml hibiscus tea, 200 ml lemon soda, energy drink, ice, rosemary sprigs.
Preparation Wash and chop the strawberries, place them in a small bowl and add the sugar, macerate well until they form a paste, add the hibiscus tea and mix well. Put them in a cocktail shaker, add the soda, the energy drink and the ice, mix well and pour into glasses decorated with a sprig of rosemary.
Via Qualitá .
Tropical Touch
If you like citrus fruits in drinks, this is the right choice, a great tropical mix of flavors with gin and energy.
Ingredients : 2 slices of Sicilian lemon, juice of half a Sicilian lemon, 2 shots of gin, half a shot if orange liqueur or bitter, tangerine bud, mint sprig, energy drink, ice.
Preparation In a gin and tonic glass, fill it halfway up with ice and add the lemon slices, the juice, the gin and the bitter. Top it off with the energy drink. To decorate, add a tangerine bud and a sprig of mint.
Via Drinkeros .
Energized Caipirinha
Caipirinha is the most traditional drink in Brazil - and for this reason also one of the most revisited This version is almost the original, but with a touch of energy.
Ingredients : 50 ml cachaça, 3 lime wedges, 1 tablespoon sugar, energy drink, ice.
Preparation In a cocktail shaker, place the lemon, the sugar and macerate. Add ice and the dose of cachaça and shake well until the liquid is cold. Serve in a low, wide glass.
Via Ana Maria Brogui .
Brasileiríssimo
Taking advantage of the different flavors of energy drinks can play to your advantage at this time - and yield results that are as good as simple. Check out this drink that mixes gin with the Brazilian flavors of coconut and açaí.
Ingredients : 80 ml gin, 1 can Red Bull energy drink coconut and açaí, ice.
Preparation Put ice in half of a glass or goblet and add the gin. Top up with the energy drink.
Via Boutique of Aromas .
Freshness without alcohol
If you don't want to mix the energy drink with alcohol, but want something that looks like a drink, try this very light, non-alcoholic version for warmer days.
Ingredients : 25 ml lemon juice, 60 ml mint tea concentrate, energy drink, ice.
Preparation In a copper or iron mug, mix the juice, tea and ice. Top up with the energy drink. To decorate, top the mug with crushed ice, add fresh mint leaves and a slice of lemon.
Via Marie Claire .
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