Year-Round Refreshing Drinks

Keeping hydrated is important for maintaining overall health. As the need to drink more fluids increases as it gets warmer, quench your thirst with these refreshing beverages.

Ingredients - Pineapple lemonade
This take on a summertime favourite will make you want to set up a stand at the end of your driveway and sell it for pennies a glass like you did back in the day.

1.2 L sparkling water 
250 mL water
950 mL pineapple juice 
120 mL lemon juice
250 g granulated sugar
710 g ice cubes

1. In a saucepan, mix together the sugar and the water. Heat on medium heat until the sugar is entirely dissolved.
2. Fill a large pitcher with the ice. Slowly pour the sugar syrup over the ice to cool the syrup down.
3. Add the pineapple juice, lemon juice, and sparkling water to the pitcher. Stir with a long spoon to combine. Place in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

Ingredients - The Arnold Palmer
Created by and later named after the golfing legend, this beverage is good with or without a shot of liquor.

120 mL iced tea
60 mL lemonade

1. Pour the lemonade and iced tea into a tall glass filled with ice.
2. Stir well. Garnish with a slice of lemon.

Ingredients - Classic Sweet Tea
When you go south of the Mason-Dixon line and ask for iced tea, you'll get a variation of this in your glass.

12 individual bags of black tea
250 g granulated sugar

1. Bring 950 mL of water to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Remove from heat.
2. Dunk the tea bags a few times in the water to fully hydrate, then leave them submerged with the strings hanging over the side of the pot. After 5 minutes, remove the bags and discard them.
3. Add the sugar and stir until it's completely dissolved.
4. Pour the tea base into a large pitcher. If using multiple pitchers, divide the tea evenly between them. Add more water to the tea base and stir to combine.
5. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or, ideally, overnight.
6. Pour the sweet tea into ice-filled glasses. Add a sprig of mint or a slice of lemon to each, if desired.

Ingredients - Roy Rogers
The cola version of the classic Shirley Temple, this mocktail is named after movie star Roy Rogers, known as the "King of the Cowboys" in the 1940s, and John McClane's alias in the first "Die Hard"; yippee-ki-yay, indeed.

your favourite cola
60 mL grenadine syrup

1. Fill a highball or pint glass with ice. Add the grenadine syrup.
2. Gently top with cola, and stir.
3. Garnish with maraschino cherries.