Paul Kushner
Vodka is a grain spirit known to be the most neutral smelling and tasting of all the hard liquor varieties. As such, it is best suited for flavor infusions.
Every vodka company offers a myriad of flavored vodkas, from fruity to herbal to dessert-flavored.
A unique and utterly refreshing flavored vodka that’s growing in popularity is cucumber vodka.
It’s a delicious summertime vodka that compliments fruity, citrus, and floral mixers in cocktails.
Read on to discover the best cucumber vodka cocktails to try this summer.
Best Cucumber Vodka Cocktails
Cucumber Vodka Lemonade
The only thing more refreshing than lemonade is cucumber lemonade. This delicious and quenching cucumber vodka lemonade features homemade lemonade and fresh cucumber juice in addition to cucumber vodka.
You can easily make a pitcher of cucumber vodka lemonade to serve at a backyard barbecue. Mint and lemon slices make a colorful and cooling garnish.
Cucumber Vodka Gimlet
This simple three-ingredient classic Gimlet recipe swaps regular vodka for Cucumber vodka, blended with lime juice and simple syrup.
The lime and cucumber offer a delicate sweetness with a bright tang. You can make it even more refreshing by adding a splash of soda water for a bubbly finish.
Cucumber Melon Splash
Cucumber and melon are the pairings you never knew you needed, each providing a juicy, crisp, refreshing flavor to cool you down and quench your thirst.
This cucumber Melon Splash uses real cucumber slices to infuse the cocktail and homemade cantaloupe puree.
Its light pink hue with thinly sliced rounds of cucumber is as pretty as it is tasty.
Cucumber Vodka Elderflower Cocktail
This cucumber vodka elderflower cocktail is an elegant fizzy drink to serve at your next summer dinner party. It blends cucumber vodka with the floral elderflower liqueur known as St. Germain.
Lime juice, simple syrup, and soda provide a fizzy limeade base to compliment the botanica flavors of cucumber and elderflower.
Limoncello Cucumber Vodka Cocktail
Limoncello is the height of summer liqueurs and one of Italy’s greatest alcoholic contributions. It tastes like a candied lemon peel and makes any drink better.
Limoncello Cucumber vodka cocktail uses a dash of limoncello to add a concentrated lemonade flavor to cucumber vodka.
The two liquors get infused with fresh basil in a shaker, with soda water to top it all off.
Watermelon Martini With Cucumber Vodka
Watermelon is the quintessential summer fruit, its unparalleled juicy sweetness a staple of every summer snack or dessert.
This Watermelon Martini uses fresh watermelon blended with water to create a refreshing and subtly sweet puree to combine with a hefty pour of cucumber vodka.
This drink is classy, simple, and delicious.
Cucumber Mint Spiked Lemonade
Not only is there cucumber-flavored vodka, but also cucumber and mint-flavored vodka. Ketel One offers a cooling cucumber mint vodka as the key ingredient.
It gives you a double dose of cucumber and mint by blending fresh cucumber and mint and straining it to create juice.
This is a fresh and cooling spiked lemonade that makes a pitcher’s worth for your next pool party.
Cucumber Moscow Mule
One of the all-time classic vodka cocktails, the Moscow Mule is a three-ingredient drink that blends ginger beer, lime juice, and vodka.
This cucumber Moscow Mule swaps regular vodka for cucumber vodka. However, it recommends that you infuse the vodka with cucumber instead of buying a flavored vodka for the freshest taste.
Strawberry Basil Vodka Cocktail
Strawberry and basil is a popular flavor combination, blending herbal flavors with the delicate sweetness of strawberries.
You achieve this flavor explosion by mudding fresh strawberries and basil in a shaker before adding mint and cucumber Ketel One vodka and simple syrup.
This is a sophisticated cocktail that’s the best way to showcase the summer strawberry harvest.
Cucumber Cosmo
A summertime twist on the classic ladies’ night cocktail, this Cucumber Cosmo blends cucumber vodka with cranberry, triple sec, and lime juice.
The cucumber adds a juicy, cooling finish to the bright citrus flavors and gives this Cosmo a summery pink cantaloupe hue.
It’s a wonderful balance of sweet and sour.
Cheers!
Cucumber vodka cocktails are a refreshing and cooling summertime treat to celebrate the hot season’s long days.
Let me know which cucumber vodka cooled you down the most in the comments section below.
10 Cucumber Vodka Cocktail Recipes
Ingredients
Instructions
- Pick your favorite recipe
- Gather all the needed ingredients
- Prep a tasty cocktail in less than 5 minutes
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