BrightestYoungThings: Most Refreshing Drinks in DC

It is as hot as balls in DC. You and we and everyone we know knows it. I mean, it is hotter outside than at 1am at Fatback. So-we decided to do an extension to our Happy Hour Guide from last week in which our Eat/Drink team pick the most refreshing (and frozen) cocktails in DC (NOT LIMITING OURSELVES to Margaritas and the like). Hopefully, having one of these will make you feel as cool and wanted as Jessica Alba in those nauseatingly appealing summer Campari Ads

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Danielle:

Art and Soul's sno-cone cocktails: they have the laurel park: strawberries, cucumber, Pimm's with St-Germain and sparkling rosé.
H Street CC offers a non-sparkling version of this made by Gina. Haven't had art and soul's but I know strawberries + pimms = great. frozen can only make it more so. A&S doesnt use sugary flavor syrups and lets the fruit steep in liquor which, technically, is illegal but who cares?
Estadio will have frozen alcoholic slushies (mixed by Adam Bernbach) but they're not open yet
ps7 has the Bell'anguria: ice, watermelon, lillet, bourbon combined, made to be like a fla-vor-ice.
Tabard: French "75" Cobbler: not technically frozen but served over crushed ice. Plymouth gin, aperol, lemon, chamomile honey, sparkling wine. And I hope they still make the mint juleps over crushed ice, those were amazing.
Alero: the matrimonio frozen margarita (strawberry + lime). Cheap ($4.99) and you can add further insult to injury with a $2 shot of chambord.

Alex:

Round Robin Bar at the Willard serves DC's original mint julep, which is just filled with crushed ice and served in a dark, cool room.
Ted's Bulletin in Barrack's Row has an old school soda counter that just happens to serve boozy milkshakes. A spiked Thai coffee milkshake sounds awesome right now.
The Swirl at Lauriol Plaza is not something I would normally go for. But at the weather gets hotter and hotter, I think I can make myself okay with sucking down a pitcher of swirled frozen regular and strawberry margaritas.
I don't think there is anything better than a Dark and Stormy on a hot day. Dark rum, ginger beer, fresh lime - I'm done. I like drinking them at Cantina Marina, POV lounge at the W, and anywhere else I can find them.

Ellen:

My favorites are the frozen slushie alcohol drinks from both Little Miss Whiskeys (peach!) and 9:30 Club Back Bar (something blue and delicious). they're both pretty cheap for the amount of alcohol they contain and pretty much guarantee a tipsy night.
The guava margaritas at H St. CC taste amazing, really unique and tangy. Probably my favorite margarita flavor ever.
Also (these women are a bit scary looking) National's stadium has started selling these tall, approx 2 ft long frozen vodka drinks. Definitely keep you cool during the game.

This made me realize I don't drink many frozen drinks. If only we had a Wet Willies...

Svetlana

Alex and Ellen already mentioned Ted Bulletins, Little Miss Whiskey's and Lauriol Plaza (no shame in my swirl game for 7 years now) but here are some of my other personal refreshing favorites:

The Negroni Frappe at the patio at the Gibson is great: a perfect balance of sweet and bitter, icy cold, and everything you ever wanted in a summer drink
ps7's Gnome's Water is the single most refreshing glass of cocktail magic around. I've waxed lyrical about it before - so click here to get the scoop/recipe.
The St. Germain breakfast cocktail @ Bourbon offers a cool, grapefruity tasting respite from the sickly sweet mimosas and too heavy/spicy bloody marys in the summer months

We'll close out with this sweet and refreshingly hot video by Beautiful swimmers for Big Coast