Our bar is still pretty small. I’ve only been looking at cocktails with ingredients that we already have. So, my choices are a little limited until I start going out and expanding our liquor choices. With such a limited selection of I had to find a cocktail that was either vodka, rum, bourbon, or gin. Since the last two cocktails have had bourbon in them I wanted to avoid any cocktails with that as the main ingredient. I originally was interested going with that old standard, gin and tonic but, D vetoed it as not being sweet enough for her liking. Another search through the bartending guide and a few more vetoes left us with the Seabreeze.
Seabreeze
- 1 1/4 oz vodka
- 1 splash of grapefruit juice
- 1 splash of cranberry juice
- ice cubes
Build the drink over ice in a highball glass or mason jars if you don’t have highball glasses…
There were a few issues with this my construction of this cocktail. First, I purchased just cranberry juice, as in no added sugars or other juices. This was a mistake. Pure cranberry juice is very bitter and very sour and I would never, ever purchase this again. In the future I’ll make sure I use cranberry cocktail juice instead. Second, a splash is not very descriptive… I tried doing a splash of each as the directions indicated and ended up with hardly any cocktail and what was there was undrinkable. Some changes were going to have to be made!
Seabreeze False(b)logic edition
- 1 1/4 oz vodka
- 1 splash of cranberry juice
- grapefruit juice
- splash of simple syrup (optional)
- ice cubes
Place ice in glass, pour in vodka and cranberry juice, fill glass with grapefruit juice.
This tweaked version turned out much better than the original! The fresh grapefruit juice really balanced out the tartness of the cranberry juice, if your grapefruit juice is not sweet enough, or you just like your cocktails sweeter a little simple syrup should help.
D loved this drink and wished we had a nice front porch on a beach house to be drinking them from… I promised to make them for her again as soon as I figure out how to get the beach house. I loved this cocktail. The seabreeze is simple, refreshing and delicious. For a summer evening I think I’d prefer these to a peach julep.
I remember this old (late 90s) sitcom on NBC where “seabreeze on the rocks” was literally the only thing any of the characters ordered from bars. It seems a bit fruitier than like my drinks though. Welp, that’s my story about seabreeze, hope u enjoyed it.
If you had said late 80s I might have thought it was Golden Girls… It’s really not as sweet as you might think. If you get pure cranberry juice, instead of cocktail, you can determine the sweetness yourself by adding as much simple syrup as you like…
Thanks for sharing!