What is your Go-To drink on a Hot Summer Day... Juice, Water or Sport Drink?

[AviatorTom]

When you are out on a hot summer day, it's important to stay hydrated.

So what is your go-to drink?

Please vote in the poll below, and tell us why you chose that in an opinion.

Note: The images are just examples, there are many brands of each.

Juice

Sport Drink

Water

Something else - please describe

[Unit1]

I make my own mojito with blue curacao.

Prepare +/- 2 Liters of carbonated water by having it stored in the fridge, so that it's cold when you use it.

Take some lemons and mint. Cut the lemons in flat circles. Break the mint in sizes of about your palms.

Put both lemon and mint in a bowl

Next boil some water (around 300-500 ML) and pour it into the bowl with lemon and mint in order to extract their aroma. Feel free to use a spoon to crush them some more to get more aroma out.

Then pour the mixture in a bigger container (2-3L). Add to the container a shot of blue curacao syrup (sugar free!). Fill it with the carbonated water from the fridge and stir.

Mojito blue curacao is ready to be served.

To add alcohol to it, simply add half a shot of white bacardi rum (blanco) into your glass first and then fill your glass with the mojito. This way people can choose whether they want to drink mojito with or without alcohol. One can always adjust whether they want more or less alcohol after trying it with half a shot of white rum.

[abc3643]

Mineral water.

[IslaTheWitch]

bolero powder to make a drink. it's sweetened with stevia and has a myriad of flavours. One pack is for 3 liters of water, but I make it in 7. Then it's barely sweet and tastes great on hot days with a lot of ice.

[Unit1]

Seems like a good choice. Plain water tastes too bland for me. Available aromatic bottled waters are too sweet and contain sugar.

[velvetheart]

I like sports drink, light teas (cooled) or otherwise mildly flavored water lol. I try to mix in some electrolytes because it tricks my brain into thinking that I'm somehow more hydrated 😅

[sage2021]

Icy cold glass of Hawaiin Punch with a couple of ice cubes. Goes down better than bubbly sodas do.

[Massageman]

Water, but lightly iced and with a few drops of lemon. No sugar.

[Lliam]

I almost never buy canned/bottled drinks. I'm not a fan of "products".

I have a liter-size bottle that I fill with my pure, sweet well water.

My wife and I have lemon, orange, grapefruit and Mandarin trees. I particularly enjoy mixing orange and grapefruit juice and keeping a bottle in the frig. I'm not that into lemonade but we use lemons a lot in food.
There is fruit on the lemon, orange and grapefruit trees year round. The Mandarins become ripe in late summer and don't last well on the tree. They have to be harvested. They are easy to peel and so good to eat. But we also juice them. The juice is delicious.

In summer, I also buy half gallons of pineapple or guava juice from time to time. That is really refreshing on hot days.

Every once in a while, I feel like a carbonated beverage and have a root beer, usually A&W.

[LiamS95]

Sounds like you live in a tropical climate. My place in Barbados has mango, kiwi, lime, lemon and grapefruit trees and passion fruit vines. Oranges don't seem to grow well in Barbados but they get fresh squeezed orange juice from Jamaica by the gallon jug that is so good. My favorite is fresh made passion fruit juice.

[Lliam]

@LiamS95. I actually live in a Zone 9 climate in the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern California. It's not tropical at all. Temps in the summer are in the 90s with spells up as high as 110, and it's dry. It rarely gets as cold as 30 on winter nights, although it got down to 28 for a couple of nights one winter.

It may snow a few minutes up the highway at slightly higher altitudes, but it has never snowed here in the past 22 years since we've been here.

The cold has never hurt our trees. I think it is because we are on a slope and the cold air keeps moving past instead of sitting on them.

We could grown lime. We've thought about planting one. I think we could grow kiwi, too.
I'd love to be able to grow mango but it gets too cold here.

I hadn't thought about passion fruit. It supposedly loves this climate. The flowers are beautiful and, I agree with you, passion fruit juice is delicious.

[LiamS95]

Sounds like your temperatures are much like Barbados where it's always 93 to 94°F gets a bit cooler in January & February but not by much the mid summer months don't get any hotter just more humid but there is always a good breeze the higher you are on the island the better the breeze. I only live there for a couple months every year and live in the Toronto area the rest of the time.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

It has an extremely mild but refreshing taste (very mild fruit flavor and sweetness but much more pleasant and refreshing to me than Gatorade which tastes so artificial and sweet) and only 17kcal/100ml (compared to 24kcal/100ml for Gatorade) or only 102kcal for the entire large 600ml bottle.

My other favorite is lemon-flavored sparkling water at 0kcal.

I like ones I can drink without worrying about adding to my waistline. Very sugary and high-calorie drinks are my arch-nemesis (besides alcohol which I recently quit) because I never had much of a sweet tooth for foods, but I used to be addicted to soda and fruit juice and that was my main caloric leak.

[JacobJordan]

I generally do sports drink or I mix a pinch of salt per 8 fluid oz of water. Many don't know this or do this. Drinking water does almost nothing for you. It fills space in your belly sure but most of the water you just pee out. If you want to truly hydrate you need 1 pinch of salt per 8 oz when active (basically any activity) or 1 pinch of sugar per 8 oz while resting. That is why sports drinks are a mix of salt/sugars so your body can pull more of it. Best of luck!

[NathanDavis]

no, I want to feel refreshed and like life is worth to live... so

iced Coca~Cola

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

That's the one soda I still really like. "Always, Coca-Cola!" 🎶 For some reason, it tastes disgusting to me though from pet/plastic bottle. I much prefer from can or glass bottle. Alters the entire taste for me.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I have a bad habit of drinking too much and flushing my electrolytes out if I'm somewhere that has really good water. As such, I try to mix in some homemade lemonade and sports drinks as appropriate.

[WhiteSteve]

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[OlderAndWiser]

Iced tea for me, sweetened with Spenda or Stevia.

[Jessica405]

Waer flavoured with Robinsons sugar free summer fruit squash. Always a bottle in my rucksack.

[mandyfire98]

Water every day, on a hot day maybe I might get an iced coffee too

[MicroJ]

Pretty much a cold glass or bottle of water.

[AnusNdaPainus]

I love water but on a hot day kool-aid or Milos lemonade or Tea ( literally anyone of them milo don’t miss 👌)

[douride2]

I prefer water when it's hot & I am thirsty.

[Likes2drive]

Pretty much water if it’s that hot, sometimes iced tea

[Caramelpie]

Iced coffee or matcha or banana smoothie. ❤️

yum yum!😋

[msc545]

I prefer water but almost anything that will hydrate me in a pinch.

[LiamS95]

Naturally lime flavored sparkling water that is sugarfree, sodiumfree and caloriefree. Sometimes an ice cold alcohol free beer is good too.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Water

[Kelley1]

Water is hard to beat when you are thirsty.