28 Great Ways To Get Your Day-Drink On

Essentially a gin and tonic + cucumber and mint. Lord knows there's nothing wrong with that. Get the recipe.

Grapefruit juice + gin + vermouth + lemon. Get the recipe.

A tangy, shandy-like punch made with brandy, lemon, maple syrup, and Hefeweizen beer. Get the recipe.

Good morning! Get the recipe.

Blood Mary meets michelada. Get the recipe.

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Get your muddle on with any kind of fruit if it's not quite cherry time yet. Aperol helps give the drink its pretty color. Get the recipe at HonestlyYUM.

The ginger beer makes this a little lighter than your average marg (and thus fully appropriate for daylight hours). Get the recipe.

Aperol is lovely because it's got the complexity of other, stronger bitter-ish aperitifs, but is low-alc enough that you won't pass out before dinner. Get the recipe.

The perfect way to use up your end-of-winter clementines. Get the recipe.

Anything that involves bourbon, Lambrusco (aka sparkling red wine), AND Orangina is definitely something you should be interested in. Get the recipe.

There's a pinch of cayenne in there to make things interesting (surprise!). Get the recipe.

Sounds weird, but something about bittersweet Campari + bitter/fizzy beer = hot damn, that's refreshing. I'm on a quest to train every bartender in the world to appreciate this drink. Get the recipe.

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The low-key love child of a margarita and a chelada: tequila, triple sec, lime, and ice-cold beer. Get the recipe.

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A white wine spritzer that got a cool makeover with lemon juice, honey, and thyme. Get the recipe.

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Lemon-thyme syrup adds some intrigue to the pretty combo of blood orange + gin. Get the recipe.

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The calls for an elderflower cordial like Bottlegreen, but you could also use a splash each of St. Germain and simple syrup. Get the recipe.

Hello, laydeez. Get the recipe.

This sassy tequila-based drink takes a little doing because you have to make a spicy lime "shrub" syrup (shrub = involves vinegar), but after that it's a snap. Get the recipe.

You can just leave that pitcher with me. Get the recipe.

Like pie, except sangria. Get the recipe.

Blood orange juice, vodka, and cinnamon simple syrup, plus fizz. Go west, everyone. Get the recipe.