3-Ingredient Happy Hour: Cherry Orchard Breeze

3-Ingredient Happy Hour: Cherry Orchard Breeze

Happy weekend, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. This weekend I’m headed to the coast, and updating a classic, kitschy cocktail for the Pacific Northwest.

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Unless someone else is mixing the drinks, I try to keep things very simple when I’m out of town. I like my cocktails big (so I don’t have to keep going back to the rental kitchen to mix another), fruity and strong. I’ve long been a fan of the Sea Breeze, which combines vodka with cranberry and grapefruit juice, but cranberries feel a little Cape Cod, and I’ll be drinking on the Oregon coast. To make this breeze a little more Oregon-appropriate, I swapped out the usual cranberry cocktail for some sweet and tart cherry juice.

3-Ingredient Happy Hour: Cherry Orchard Breeze

You are of course, welcome to enjoy this beverage wherever you may be spending your weekend. To make this simply delicious sipper, you will need:

  • 130mL cherry juice
  • 60mL vodka
  • 45mL ounces ruby red grapefruit juice

Combine everything in a large shaker filled with ice and shake until everything is super chilled. Strain into a pint glass filled with whatever shape ice your rental fridge happens to have.


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