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Quench Your Thirst With These Top-Rated Summer Cocktails

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24 cocktails, from the classic Martini, Manhattan, and…

5 Ways to make your favorite summer cocktail healthier

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Spring and summer seem to inspire some of the most yummy and exotic cocktails. Whether it be a spicy sangria or a minty mojito or a plain old gin and tonic, happy hour seems all the more fun when you can couple it up with halter tops, sundresses and frolicking in the warm summer sun.

Unfortunately, many of these summer-time libations come with a lot of calories. And although one drink might not be so detrimental, two or three can really start to add up. So what is a summer happy-hour lover to do? The chart below provides a breakdown of the good, bad and ugly of favorite summer cocktails (at standard serving size for the drink) to give you a sense of what to choose when the bartender asks you what your poison of choice is.

Spring Cocktails

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A new liqueur we're loving

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A new ginger liqueur from France, Domaine de Canton, has Bettys abuzz. We've been sipping, testing and loving it.…

Delicious: The mojito sorbet

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Sorbet! We approve of sorbet! It is slushy and fruity and delicious. Mojitos! We approve of mojitos! They are limey, and minty, and refreshing. Also, they have alcohol in them. What if...what if you were some kind of genius, and you thought to yourself, "I know--I will take the refreshing slushiness of a sorbet, combine it with the refreshing mintiness of an exciting alcoholic drink." Why then, you would be Dragon of Dragon's Kitchen, and also a genius.