How To Make Breeze Cocktail | Vodka | Straight Up Bar

How To Make Breeze Cocktail | Vodka | Straight Up Bar

Breeze is a cocktail containing vodka with cranberry juice and grapefruit juice. The

cocktail is usually consumed during summer months. The drink may be shaken in order to

create a foamy surface. It is considered an IBA Official Cocktail.

The drink follows the classic cocktail principle of balancing strong (alcohol) with weak

(fruit juice) and sweet and sour

The cocktail was born in the late 1920s, but the recipe was different from the one used

today, as gin and grenadine were used in the original Sea Breeze. This was near the end of

the Prohibition era. In the 1930s, a Sea Breeze had gin, apricot brandy, grenadine, and

lemon juice. Later, a Sea Breeze recipe would contain vodka, dry vermouth, Galliano, and

blue Curaçao.

The cranberry grower's cooperative in the 1930s evolved into Ocean Spray which marketed

cranberry juice in the 1950s. Cranberry juice was used as a mixer with alcohol, first with

gin and later with vodka. The Harpoon, later called the Cape Codder, was born, and its

descendants such as the Greyhound, the Salty Dog, the Bay Breeze, and the Sea Breeze were

later created. Starting in the 1960s, the breeze drinks were sporadically in the top ten

most popular mixed drinks.