Fruity · Brunch · Summer

Sex on the Beach

Vodka and peach schnapps with orange and cranberry juice. Sweet, fruity, and completely unbothered about it.

Base: Vodka
Glass: Highball glass
Method: Build
Strength: 10.68% ABV

Ingredients

40 mlVodka1 swap
Any neutral vodkahigh
Little change
20 mlPeach Schnapps1 swap
Peach liqueurmedium
Little change
40 mlFresh Orange Juice
40 mlCranberry 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 half orange slice.Cut it thin — a thick half-wheel tips the glass off balance.

Taste & nutrition

10.68%ABV

253kcal

1.32Drinks

StrengthLight

Sweet to dryOff-dry

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

Good to know

Use freshly squeezed juice — bottled tastes flat.

History

Year1980s

PlaceFlorida, USA

Created byUnknown

A fruity 1980s crowd-pleaser, Sex on the Beach blends vodka and peach schnapps with cranberry and orange juice. Its sweet flavour and attention-grabbing name made it a spring-break icon. It is more about fun than finesse. Colourful and approachable, it never quite leaves the party.

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