Cooler (cocktail)


A cooler is a sweet, often fruity and/or bubbly cocktail for use as a refreshing drink, especially for summer parties. Often a cooler will be light, crisp, and colorful, and have less alcohol than other cocktails. A cooler is distinct from a spritzer in that a spritzer tends to be a mix of wine and sparkling water or wine and club soda, and therefore dryer than a cooler.

Examples of coolers include the chuncho cooler (made with Chilean pisco, Galliano, lime juice, ginger syrup, and club soda),[1] the strawberry cooler (made with strawberries, lemonade, lime, mint, and one's choice of Cointreau, vodka, tequila, rum, etc.); the summer mint cooler (made with bourbon whiskey, muddled mint liqueur, simple syrup, lemon juice, and lemon-lime soda),[2] the Citrónge Lime Cooler (made with lime liqueur, prosecco, sparkling water, and lime juice),[3] the cucumber cooler (made with gin, lime juice, cucumber, and tonic water),[4] etc.

Some coolers are nominally non-alcoholic, but can easily be made alcoholic; e.g. a non-alcoholic strawberry cooler could be a candidate for the addition of alcohol since strawberries are very liquor-friendly. Lemonade tends to be a suitable candidate for the addition of vodka,[5] and incidentally can also be used as a margarita ingredient.[5] Margarita variants themselves are often used as coolers, e.g. through the use of watermelon ice cubes;[6] or yellow peaches;[7] or in the case of the La Paloma grapefruit soda;[8] etc.

A cooler that has wine as its alcoholic ingredient is a wine cooler.

References
  1. "PUNCH | Chunco Cooler Cocktail Recipe".
  2. "Cocktail". The Cocktail Project. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  3. "Welcome to Patrón Tequila | Patrón Tequila". Patrontequila.com. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  4. "Cucumber Gin Cooler Cocktail Recipe". Saveur.
  5. Crocker, Betty. "Blueberry-Lemonade Coolers Recipe". BettyCrocker.com. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  6. "Margarita Cooler". MyRecipes.
  7. Don Julio Tequila Brand Publisher (2017-10-27). "Peach Margarita Cooler". Buzzfeed.com. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  8. "La Paloma Cooler". Martha Stewart. May 17, 2016.
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