13 Low-Calorie Cocktails To Cool You Down This Summer

1. Grand Marnier Raspberry Peach Spritz

Oh how we love a cool, crisp mixed drink during the summer, especially one that doesn't wreak havoc on our diets. And looky there, something for everyone - gin, vodka, tequila, rum, even coconut water! Calories: 125 Ingredients: • 1.5 oz. Grand Marnier Raspberry Peach • 1 oz. cranberry juice (100%) • 2.5 oz. club soda • Squeeze of lime Directions: Build drink in a Collins glass. Garnish with lime.

2. Brasilia Blueberry Mojito

blueberry drink 3 Calories: 90 per serving (serving size: 2) Ingredients: • 1 bottle Bai5 Brasilia Blueberry (all natural antioxidant infusion) • 12 sprigs fresh mint leaves • 2 limes • 3 oz. white rum Directions: Squeeze both limes over the mint sprigs and muddle in a cocktail shaker. Add the ice, rum and Brasillia Blueberry. Stir, and then pour into cold highball glasses. Garnish with a sprig of mint and slice of lime.

3. Grand Tropez

118 calories per serving Ingredients • 1.5 oz. Grand Marnier • 3.5 oz. club soda • Juice of 2 lemon wedges Directions: Pour Grand Marnier and club soda into an ice-filled highball glass. Squeeze two lemon wedges into glass. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

4. Spa Cooler

225 calories Courtesy of Longitude Bar + Restaurant Ingredients: • 1 oz Akvinta Vodka • 1 oz VeeV Açaí Spirit • 1 Cucumber Slice • .75 oz Fresh squeezed Lime • .5 oz Agave Syrup Directions: Muddle, shake and pour into a Collins glass. Add a cucumber wheel, squeezed lime and a dash of sea salt.

5.

Grapefruit Basil Martini

148 calories Courtesy of Cameo Bar at Viceroy Santa Monica Ingredients: • 1 1/2 oz. Seagrams Gin • 3 oz. grapefruit juice • 2 basil leaves • Splash of prosecco Directions: Pour Seagrams Gin & grapefruit juice into mixing glass. Muddle in basil leaves. Vigorously shake over ice.Strain into martini glass. Garnish with a grapefruit wedge and basil leave.

6. The Gibbons

Courtesy of ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons Ingredients: • 1.5 oz Pura Vida Reposado Tequila • 1 Fresh Lime Wedge • 1 Fresh Lemon Wedge • 3 oz. Topo Chico (Mineral Water) • 2 Fresh Jalapeño Slices Directions: In a shaker with ice, combine tequila, juice of lime and lemon wedges. Shake to combine. Pour into a highball glass filled with ice and top with Topo Chico. Add two fresh jalapeño slices. Watch Billy make the cocktail here:

7. CÎROC La Piña


Ingredients:
• 1.5oz CÎROC Pineapple • .5oz Lime Juice • .5oz Simple Syrup • Splash of Prosecco • Garnish: 3-5 Mint Leaves Directions: Combine all ingredients, shake well and pour into Highball.

8. Platinum Paloma

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170 Calories
Mexico’s most beloved cocktail, the Paloma, is traditionally crafted with grapefruit soda, lime and a pinch of salt, but DELEÓN’s version switches things up by adding fresh squeezed grapefruit juice to complement the distinctive citrus notes DELEÓN’s Platinum tequila. Ingredients: • 1 ½ oz. DeLeón Platinum tequila • 1 oz. fresh grapefruit juice • ½ oz. fresh lime juice •1 bar spoon cane syrup Directions: Vigorously shake all ingredients over cold, clean ice until thoroughly chilled and strain over fresh ice into a rocks glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.

9. The Green Garden

Courtesy of Owl's Brew Ingredients: • 2 parts The Classic • 2 parts Green Juice (we recommend: cold press juice, cucumber & mint or mixed greens w apple & lemon) • 1 part Vodka • 1 part Sake Directions: Pour over ice into a mason jar or shake & pour into a martini glass

1. Grand Marnier Raspberry Peach Spritz

Oh how we love a cool, crisp mixed drink during the summer, especially one that doesn't wreak havoc on our diets.

And looky there, something for everyone - gin, vodka, tequila, rum, even coconut water!