Bartending Basics

As you begin your journey in the world of cocktails you'll most likely come across many recipes that ask you to shake this and muddle that along with a few other common bartending techniques. These methods are the commonly required in the majority of cocktails. With a little practice, by making drinks for yourself and friends, these drink preparations will become second nature.

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ABSOLUT Seabreezecocktail recipe

Ingredients

1 Part ABSOLUT VODKA
2 Parts Cranberry Juice
2 Dashes Grapefruit Juice
1 Wedge Lime

How to mix this cocktail

Fill a chilled highball glass with ice cubes. Add all ingredients. Garnish with lime.

INSTRUCTIONS

Pour the vodka, cranberry juice and grapefruit juice into a tall glass -or short -with the ice. Stir well. Decorate with a lime wedge.

INGREDIENTS

2 parts Vodka
3 parts Cranberry juice
3 parts Grapefruit juice
1 Lime wedge
1 part Ice cubes
5 Ice (crushed)

History

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.

According to some, the Sea Breeze, along with the Cape Codder and Bay Breeze, did not become very popular until the 1970s. This was because in 1959, the U.S. Department of Health stated that cranberry crops were tainted with toxic herbicides, collapsing the cranberry industry.

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EQUIPMENT NEEDED TO MAKE THIS COCKTAIL