The Most Popular Cocktails of August

Punch’s most popular recipes of the month are signaling the end of summer. Whether you’re mourning the sunniest season or excited for the strong, stirred and spiced drinks of fall, these cocktails are excellent transitional pieces, marrying tropical flavors with bitter, deeper tones, for example, or serving the stirred classics, like the Martini, on the rocks. Of course, it’s not fall just yet, so you still have time to sneak in another one of the month’s most popular serves: a frosty, slushy Margarita. Here are the recipes you deemed best in August.