Fruity · Brunch · Summer

Sea Breeze

Vodka with cranberry and grapefruit juice, built over ice. Tart, pink and low effort.

Base: Vodka
Glass: Highball glass
Method: Build
Strength: 9.49% ABV

Ingredients

40 mlVodka1 swap
Any neutral vodkahigh
Little change
120 mlCranberry Juice
30 mlGrapefruit Juice

How to make

Technique

Build · 10–15s

Building straight in the glass keeps it simple and preserves any fizz.

Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.

Serve

Glass

Highball glassAlso fine: Collins glass, Tall tumbler

Garnish

Garnish with an orange zest and cherry.Oil from the zest first, cherry after.

Taste & nutrition

9.49%ABV

159kcal

1.59Drinks

StrengthLight

Sweet to dryBalanced

Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.

Good to know

Use freshly squeezed juice — bottled tastes flat.

History

Year1980s

PlaceUSA

Created byUnknown

The Sea Breeze mixes vodka with cranberry and grapefruit juice into an easy, fruity highball. It took off in the 1980s and '90s, helped along by vodka and cranberry-juice marketing. Light and tart, it became a fixture of casual bars. It sits alongside the Cape Codder and Bay Breeze in the same refreshing family.

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