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title: Sip Back and Relax- Seven Summer Drinks Worth Making to Beat the Heat
description: Cool, healthy and genuinely good, seven summer drinks you can make at home from real ingredients, for hot days and long tables. 
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-07-22T14:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-22T14:04:43.458Z
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There is a particular thirst that belongs only to summer, the kind that a cold can of something sweet never quite answers and often makes worse. The drinks that truly cool you are the simple ones, made from water, fruit, herbs and a little honesty about sugar, and they are almost always cheaper and better than anything you can buy. A jug of one of them on the table does the same work as a vase of flowers, drawing people towards it and turning an ordinary afternoon into something that feels looked after.

The thinking behind every drink here is the same. Hydration first, sweetness second, and real ingredients throughout. A summer drink should leave you feeling cooler and lighter, not heavier and thirstier, which is the trick the sugary bottled drinks never manage. Most of these take minutes, several can be made ahead in a big jug, and all of them are better for a few hours in the fridge to let the flavours settle. Where there is sweetness, it comes from fruit or a little honey rather than a heavy hand with the sugar, so you taste the ingredients rather than just the sweet.

What follows are seven summer drinks worth making, from the simplest jug of infused water to a cooling yoghurt lassi, each one cool, healthy and genuinely good.

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