Sex on the Beach
Spring break, distilled
A fruity cascade of peach, cranberry, and orange over vodka that tastes like a sunset looks. Sweet, easy-drinking, and proudly unpretentious.
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 oz Vodka
- 2/3 oz Peach Schnapps
- 1 1/3 oz Cranberry Juice
- 1 1/3 oz Fresh Orange Juice
Method
Pour all ingredients into a highball glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently. Garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino cherry.
Documented in the 1981 American Bartenders School Guide to Drinks (reprinted 1982), likely a combination of the Fuzzy Navel and Cape Codder cocktails. A popular but unverified 1987 origin story credits Ted Pizio of Confetti's bar (Fort Lauderdale) with creating it for a peach schnapps promotion, but this conflicts with the earlier documented recipe. Per IBA (Contemporary Classics list); Difford's Guide references the drink as 1980s-era with numerous recipe variations. Notes: the true creator remains uncertain; the popular Ted Pizio attribution conflicts with the 1982 source and cannot be verified through authoritative bar-history sources.