Cocktail Recipes for Summer Pool Parties

Nothing quite compares to a cool cocktail next to the pool, especially during this warm San Diego summer! We’ve compiled recipes of some of the city’s best sips – a fruity rum cocktail from Miss B’s Coconut Club, a slushie-like cocktail from The Smoking Gun and barleymash’s Afternoon Delight – to keep you hydrated while soaking up the sun.

Pro tip: you can double or even quadruple the ingredients to make more for friends who join in on your pool-time fun!

The Reefeater

Recipe courtesy of Miss B’s Coconut Club Bartender Ari DiMou

Ingredients

• 1 oz RumHaven Caribbean Rum
• 1 oz Beefeater Pink Gin
• .5 oz grapefruit juice
• .5 oz lemon juice
• .25 oz chareau aloe
• Dash of simple syrup
• Coconut Red Bull

Instructions

1. Combine rum, gin, grapefruit and lemon juice, aloe and simple syrup in a shaker (with ice) and shake until blended.
2. Poor over crushed ice into Collins glass and top off with a splash of Coconut Red Bull.
3. Garnish with a strawberry.

Trigger Finger

Recipe courtesy of The Smoking Gun

Ingredients

• 1.5 Vodka
• .5 Ancho Reyes
• .5 Giffard Passion Fruit 
• .75 Lime
• .25 Campari
• Cracked Pink Himalayan Salt

Instructions

1. Add all ingredients to shaker, combine and poor into glass
2. Add crushed ice 
3. Float Campari
4. Add a lime wheel for garnish

Afternoon Delight

Recipe courtesy of barleymash

Ingredients

• 1.5 oz Herradura Reposado Tequila
• .75 oz fresh lime juice
• 1 oz pineapple juice
• .75 oz agave syrup
• 2 slices of jalapeño 

Instructions

1. Muddle jalapeño
2. Add remaining ingredients to shaker
3. Shake vigorously and strain over ice
4. Garnish with jalapeno slice