Option to garnish with orange zest and a cherry. It calls for 40ml Vodka, 120ml Cranberry Juice, and 30ml Grapefruit Juice, built in a highball glass filled with ice. THE OFFICIAL MIX – The ‘Sea Breeze’ is included in the International Bartender Association’s (IBA) ‘Contemporary Classics’ official cocktail list, here. At the time there were many ‘Sea Breeze’ variations, but it is believed Ocean Spray were the first to add Cranberry Juice to the cocktail, at some point in the 1960’s. As part of the ‘recovery’ Ocean Spray began actively promoting recipes, including a Vodka and Cranberry-based one. In 1959 they had a big set-back with a poison-trace incident and the US Secretary of Health suggesting American’s avoid consuming them. There are also a host of other ‘Breeze’ and similar tropical variations that play around with these core ingredients and others, the Bay Breeze, the Malibu Breeze, the Cape Codder as examples.Ĭranberry juice would have been a relatively rare cocktail ingredient in the 1930’s, the Ocean Spray collective having only formed in 1930. The most successful being Absolut Vodka (supplanting the Gin and other Vodka alternatives) and Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice (supplanting the Grenadine and Lemon Juice), to create, especially through the 1990’s what is a significantly different drink. Built in a Highball glass, and topped up with soda water and garnished with mint.Īt some point or points, between the 1950’s and the 1990’s, this fading cocktail was reprized (or appropriated) by a number of mixologists and ingredient ‘interests’. Back before 1930, it was the ‘Sea Breeze Cooler’, and called for “the juice of half a lemon, two dashes of grenadine and equal parts apricot brandy and dry gin over ice”. HISTORICAL NOTES – Yet another cocktail gift to history from the work of Harry Craddock and his 1930 publication, ‘The Savoy Cocktail Book’. Mix of Locktail #037 – A modified 2021 version of the ‘Sea Breeze’ Cocktail. Garnish with a lemon wedge and (optional to taste) a sprig of fresh mint. Top the glass up with 30ml to 90ml of Fever Tree’s Mediterranean Tonic (or other light tonic or soda water if you are not a fan of tonic) to the appropriate level in the glass. Slowly add the strained contents of the cocktail shaker. Pour 60ml (approximate) of cranberry juice into the bottom of the glassware. Shake until cold (10-15 seconds) and set-aside. Add 30ml Gin (I recommend an Old Tom Style like Jensen’s or Hammer & Sons), 30ml Apricot Brandy (such as Joseph Cartron), 30ml fresh lemon juice into a cocktail shaker with a handful of ice. METHOD – Prepare a stemless wine glass, tumbler or double rocks glass with ice cubes or crushed ice. Garnish – Lemon Wedge (or mint sprig optional) Ice – Cubes (alternatively crushed or pieces) Preparation – Shake (selected ingredients) Stir.Glassware – Stemless Wine (or Double Rocks) Add ice to serving glass and pour over vodka, cranberry juice and grapefruit juice. Side note: If you love cranberry cocktail recipes, check out these delicious bad boys: the Madras, the Redheaded Slut Shot, the Forbidden Fruit, the Malibu Bay Breeze, and the Cranberry Lime Iced Tea.ġ. Not only did this Ocean Spray recipe give birth to the Sea Breeze cocktail recipe as we know it today, it also helped to spawn drinks such as the Greyhound, the Salty Dog, and the Bay Breeze. The cranberry growing cooperative published a recipe for a “Harpoon” cocktail on their Ocean Spray juice bottles, which called for vodka, cranberry juice, and lemon juice. Then, at some point in the 1950s, Ocean Spray - y’know that agricultural cooperative that really loves growing and selling cranberries? - decided to really push its cranberry juice as a mixer for alcoholic drinks. Apparently the Sea Breeze began as a gin and grenadine cocktail during the Prohibition Era, and was still a gin-based drink even in the 1930s, when apricot brandy and lemon juice were added to the ingredients list. Not because it was definitely invented by one particular person though, but because nobody claims to have invented it. But with the Sea Breeze cocktail recipe, that is not the case. Now, when it comes to figuring out who first made a particular cocktail, there’s usually a bunch of ambiguity thanks to there being so many conflicting origin stories - as in the case of the Bloody Mary cocktail, for example. Before jumping into the Sea Breeze cocktail’s history, here are some other classic vodka cocktails we think you'll love: the Salty Dog, the Lemon Drop, the White Russian, the Moscow Mule, and the Screwdriver.
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