Highballs and long drinks · Vodka
Ruby cranberry and golden pineapple poured over ice, with vodka giving a clean lift. The Bay Breeze is tart, juicy and uncomplicated, exactly the kind of drink you want on a porch on a hot afternoon.
1½ oz
vodkae.g. Absolut · Smirnoff · Grey Goose · Ketel One · Belvedere
3 oz
cranberry juice
1½ oz
pineapple juice
Garnish: Pineapple wedge and lime wedge · Ice: Ice cubes
Bay Breeze
Tart cranberry and sweet, tropical pineapple with a clean vodka base. Light, fruity and refreshing, with low bitterness.
The Bay Breeze is part of a family of simple vodka and cranberry highballs that became popular in the United States from the 1960s onwards, when cranberry juice producers actively promoted mixed drinks such as the Cape Codder. The Sea Breeze adds grapefruit juice to vodka and cranberry; the Bay Breeze swaps the grapefruit for pineapple, which makes it rounder and sweeter.
The drink is also known as a Hawaiian Sea Breeze or, in some regions, a Downeaster. No individual creator is recorded. Its appeal lies in its simplicity: three ingredients, no shaker, and a colour that shifts from deep red to coral as the juices mix.
The Bay Breeze uses pineapple juice, the Sea Breeze grapefruit juice. Both are built on vodka and cranberry.
Yes. Keep the ratio of 1 part vodka, 2 parts cranberry and 1 part pineapple, and add ice only to the glasses.
A cranberry juice drink with some sweetness works best; pure unsweetened cranberry juice is very tart and needs a little syrup.
The perfect sound
A light pink breeze on a lazy beach day.
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