Sex on the Beach
ClassicIBA OfficialVodka, peach, and a sunset of fruit juice.
Fruity, sweet, and easygoing. Peach liqueur leads with a soft orchard sweetness, cranberry adds a dry tartness, and fresh orange juice rounds it into something bright and juicy. Vodka keeps the base clean and lets the fruit run the show. A sunset-colored crowd-pleaser.
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz Vodka
- 0.75 oz Peach Liqueur
- 2 oz Cranberry Juice
- 2 oz Fresh Orange Juice
- Orange slice · optional garnish
- Maraschino cherry · optional garnish
Method
- 1
Fill a highball glass with ice.
- 2
Add the vodka and peach liqueur.
- 3
Add the cranberry juice and orange juice and stir gently.
- 4
Garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino cherry.
The Story
Sex on the Beach is pure 1980s: a bright, fruity, unabashedly fun highball that rode the decade's cocktail-bar boom to global fame, often credited to a Florida bartender during the spring-break rush. It has no pretensions to the classic canon and never wanted them — it's built to be easy, colorful, and crowd-pleasing. The layered cranberry-and-orange gradient it settles into is half the appeal.
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