In the cocktail world , what was once old is young and trendy again . Suspenders , mustaches , hand - carved ice balls — the flash and dazzle of 19th hundred bartending might be here to stay . But more recently , some bartender have been searching through the archives of the Disco Era for cocktails to find raw divine guidance .
One such drinking is the Sex on the Beach . Like theCosmopolitanand theWhite Russian , these drinks flourished during the period between the 1960s and early 2000s , when off-key mix and juice from a soda gun were barroom staples ( and bar used provocative public figure like the " Buttery Nipple " or " Surfer on Acid " or else of quality ingredient to sell deglutition ) .
But the Sex on the Beach still has a surprising following . A mistranslation of the phrase is catch for posterity by current Top 40 vocal “ Cake By The Ocean . ” There ’s even a moderncocktail companynamed after the cocktail . Their website take “ the earliest jazz invention of the cocktail and name dates back to 1987 in Florida , USA . ” According to them , peach schnapps had just become useable , and a allocator offer a incentive to the bar and bartender who sold the most .
As their level goes :
It ’s a fun storey , but it ’s likely untrue . In 1982 , a recipe for the Sex on the Beach ( that included peach schnapps ) graced thepages of a bookpublished by the American Bartenders School .
It ’s likely that a bartender ( or bartenders ) created the peachy recipe by combine a Fuzzy Navel ( orange juice and peach schnaps ) with a Cape Codder ( vodka and cranberry juice with a lime ) . As for how the name and the drink came together , there ’s nothing more to go on than speculation .
Hazy origin or not , this tropical , sweet cocktail is more than just playfulness to order — it ’s tasty to drink , too .
HIT THE LAB
Sex On The Beach1 1/2 ounce vodka3/4 oz. peach schnapps1 1/2 oz. cranberry juice1 1/2 ounce orange juice
coalesce all ingredients in a highball glass fill with ice . Garnish with a slice of orangeness .
