Easy Mixes for your Home Bar

Ingredients

Vodka

• Tomato juice
• Cranberry juice
• Black currant, raspberry, forest berries juices
• Tonic
• Ginger ale / ginger lemonade
• Energy drink
• Unsweetened soda
• Tan and Ayran
• Pomegranate juice

Gin

• Grapefruit juice
• Apple juice or cider
• Lemonade (tart)
• Raspberry or peach lemonade
• Iced tea
• Elderflower (tonic, lemonade, syrup, or liqueur)
• Peach juice or nectar
• Rooibos or other teas
• Cranberry juice

Whiskey

• Plain still water
• Soda
• Apple juice or cider
• Ginger ale / ginger lemonade
• Coffee (hot or cold)
• Cherry juice
• Grapefruit soda or juice
• Cranberry juice
• Tea (especially chilled Earl Grey)

Rum

• Pineapple juice
• Ginger ale or ginger beer
• Coconut water
• Exotic juices (multivitamin, mango, passion fruit, guava)
• Lemonades (pineapple, coconut, peach)
• Dairy (milk or cream)
• Coffee (hot or cold espresso)

Tequila

• Grapefruit soda (for a Paloma)
• Watermelon juice
• Cucumber juice (with soda or tonic)
• Tonic (TNT)
• Tomato juice (for a Bloody Maria)
• Orange or pineapple juice
• Mango, strawberry, or peach juices/lemonades
• Ginger ale
• Lager beer (like Corona)
• Coconut water
• Cola (for a Batanga)

Brandy / Cognac

• Coffee (hot or cold)
• Black tea
• Apple juice or cider
• Grape juice (especially white)
• Pear juice
• Cherry juice
• Milk or cream
• Ginger ale
• Plain soda