6 lemonade recipes to quench your Beyoncé thirst

Last week, Beyoncé blessed the world with a new visual album, Lemonade. 

On top of that, she also shared an actual family recipe for lemonade. Naturally, hearing that recipe might make one a little thirsty. 

The next time you kick back to listen, or watch to the excellent album, take a sip from one of these creative lemonade recipes. From the Beyoncé-approved recipe, to honey-sweetened methods, here are six types of lemonade worth trying out. 

1. The actual Lemonade recipe

First and foremost, here's the lemonade recipe Beyoncé shared in the visual album. You'll need water, lots of sugar and 8 and a half lemons. Here's how the queen herself explains it. 

“Take one pint of water. Add a half-pound of sugar, the juice of 8 lemons and the zest of half of a lemon. Pour the water from one jug into the other several times. Strain through a clean napkin.”

Now make like Miss Tina (Beyoncé's mom) and celebrate the visual album's success with a fresh cup. 

2. Sparkling ginger lemonade

This recipe from Mischa of The Accidental Farm Wife requires ginger, sugar, sparkling water and lemon juice.

3. Lavender lemonade 

Inspired by this excellent tweet about being excited for Lemonade, but sad about the recent death of Prince? Pour yourself a purple one and have a toast to the beautiful ones. This recipe requires four lemons, dried lavender buds, and agave nectar. 

4. Honey-sweetened lemonade

This one goes out to the Beyhive, who've made ample use of the bee emoji. It requires raw honey, six lemons and 11 cups of water. 

5. Honey mint lemonade

Level up that honey lemonade by sprigging it up with some fresh mint. 

6. Pink lemonade

This recipe requires lemons, cranberry juice and sugar.