With summer being right around the corner, there’s no better way to beat the heat and enjoy the sunshine than with a chilled refreshing cocktail in hand. Summer is a perfect season to sit down with a delicious fruity cocktail and relax while also cooling yourself down. Summer cocktails are all about color, vibrance and great tastes that bring out the true happiness and amazing weather. From fruity tropical drinks to something more crisp and refreshing there’s a cocktail out there for everyone to enjoy during the wonderful summer months. Whether you’re lounging by a pool or beach, enjoying the weather with friends and family in someone’s backyard or just sitting on your patio in the sun, an ice cold cocktail will only elevate the experience. 

One way to take your summer cocktails to the next level is by using fruit-infused ice cubes. Whether it’s cherries, blackberries, peaches or rosemary inside the ice cubes they all add a burst of flavour as well as a major touch of elegance to any drink. These colorful and innovative cubes not only keep your cocktails ice cold while adding a great visual appeal but also gradually release their fruity essence as they melt, enhancing the taste and smell of your mouth-watering cocktail. 

Listed below are some incredible cocktail pairings we recommend that go perfect with a lovely fruit infused ice cube. 

First we’ll start with the cherry infused ice cubes:

• Vodka Cherry Limeade
  • Ingredients include: vodka, lemon lime pop, maraschino cherry juice, fresh lime juice, simple syrup, lime wedges
• Sweet Old Fashioned
  • Ingredients include: whiskey, a lemon lime carbonated drink, bitters, sweet citrus syrup (orange juice mixed with grenadine), cherry garnish
• Cherry Gin & Tonic
  • Ingredients include: gin, tonic water, sweet cherries, fresh limes

Next Peach infused ice cubes:

• Prosecco Punch
  • Ingredients include: pineapple & peach juice, seltzer water, prosecco, vodka (vanilla), sliced pineapples & peaches, fresh mint
• Peach Margaritas
  • Ingredients include: tequila, peach schnapps, lime juice, peach puree
• Peach Sparkling Lemonade
  • Ingredients include: Jim Beam peach bourbon, lemonade, a splash of pop, peach wedges  

Then onto Blackberry infused ice cubes

• Blackberry Mojito
  • Ingredients include: lime, fresh blackberries and/or blackberry puree, rum, mint leaves, club soda, sugar 
• The Bramble Cocktail
  • Ingredients include: gin, lime juice, simple syrup, crème de mûre liqueur, a few fresh blackberries, lime wheel garnish
• Blackberry Malt
  • Ingredients include: fresh blackberries, simple syrup, whiskey, lime juice, soda water

Then lastly Rosemary infused ice cubes

• Lemon Rosemary Gin Fizz
  • Ingredients include: gin, fresh squeezed lemon juice, club soda, lemon wedges and fresh sprigs of rosemary 
• Rosemary Greyhound 
  • Ingredients include: vodka, grapefruit juice, sugar, fresh rosemary
• Rosemary Lemontini
  • Ingredients include: vodka, lemon juice, simple syrup, rosemary sprigs, lemon zest

When the nicer weather comes along, a huge opportunity to relax outdoors and enjoy delicious cocktails with the fruity flavors of the season opens up. No matter what you’re sipping on fruit infused ice cubes add that extra needed element to cool and bring your cocktail to the next level. So gather all your friends and family, make a cocktail, and raise a glass to summer and good spirits one sip at a time. Cheers!