Sex on the Beach
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| IBA Official Cocktail | |
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| Sex on the Beach (left) and Margarita (right) | |
| Type | Cocktail |
| Primary alcohol by volume | |
| Served | On the rocks; poured over ice |
| Standard garnish | orange slice |
| Standard drinkware |
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| IBA specified ingredients† |
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| Preparation | Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with orange slice. |
| †Sex on the Beach recipe at International Bartenders Association | |
Sex on the Beach is a highball cocktail made from vodka, peach schnapps, orange juice and cranberry juice. It is an International Bartenders Association Official Cocktail. The ingredients may be shaken together in a shaker with ice, and served in a highball glass.
[edit] Variations
- "Modern Sex on the Beach" replaces orange juice with pineapple juice
- Other variations use both orange juice and pineapple juice
- Coconut rum is often substituted for the vodka
- Sex on the Beach is often made as a Shooter by using half Vodka, half Peach Schnapps and a bit of Grenadine
- The alcohol-free variation is sometimes referred to as "Safe Sex on the Beach", "Dry Humping on the Beach." or "Virgins on the Beach"
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Origin
The earliest known invention of the cocktail and it's name dates back to 1987 in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Republic National Distributor (National Distribution at the time) had just begun to sell a new product, peach schnapps, in the fall. With the influx of tourism coming shortly for spring break, National devised a contest that would pay the bar that sold the most peach schnapps a bonus of $1000 and the bartender that was responsible at that bar for the highest sales of schnapps would receive $100. A young bartender named Ted Pizio working at Confetti's mixed peach scnapps, vodka, orange juice and grenadine. When Pizio began to sell the sweet and tasty beverage he was soon asked what it was called. On the spot, Pizio thought what the reason was that thousands of people came to Ft. Lauderdale for spring break was: The Beach and Sex. "Sex on the Beach!" He replied, and as the drink gained fame that spring, thousands of college students returned to their areas of the country and asked their local bartenders for Sex on the Beach. Obviously, the bartenders had no idea how to make a drink they had never heard of so they asked what it looked like and what it tasted like, which to this day has lead to the numerous regional variations of the famous drink recipe.
