Cooler (cocktail)
A cooler is a sweet, often fruity and/or bubbly cocktail for use as a refreshing drink, especially for summer parties. Often a cooler will be light, crisp, and colorful, and have less alcohol than other cocktails. A cooler is distinct from a spritzer in that a spritzer tends to be a mix of wine and sparkling water or wine and club soda, and therefore dryer than a cooler.
Examples of coolers include the chuncho cooler, the strawberry cooler ; the summer mint cooler, the Citrónge Lime Cooler, the cucumber cooler, etc.
Some coolers are nominally non-alcoholic, but can easily be made alcoholic; e.g. a non-alcoholic strawberry cooler could be a candidate for the addition of alcohol since strawberries are very liquor-friendly. Lemonade tends to be a suitable candidate for the addition of vodka, and incidentally can also be used as a margarita ingredient. Margarita variants themselves are often used as coolers, e.g. through the use of watermelon ice cubes; or yellow peaches; or in the case of the La Paloma grapefruit soda; etc.
A cooler that has wine as its alcoholic ingredient is a wine cooler.
