A breezy vodka highball lengthened with cranberry and pineapple, the Bay Breeze is a Cape Codder softened by a splash of pineapple, its tropical sweetness rounding off the cranberry's tartness. Long, cold and rosy over ice with a squeeze of lime, it drinks rounder and fruitier than the grapefruit-sharp Sea Breeze.
Garnish: Lime Wedge
Built · Highball · On the Rocks
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Fill a highball glass with ice cubes.
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Pour the vodka over the ice.
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Add the cranberry juice.
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Add the pineapple juice and gently stir to combine.
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Garnish with a lime wedge.
No single bartender or bar can claim the Bay Breeze; it grew out of the cranberry cooperative Ocean Spray's mid-century push to sell its juice as a mixer. That campaign produced the Red Devil in 1945, a vodka-and-cranberry drink later renamed the Cape Codder, and from it sprang a family of easygoing coolers — the Sea Breeze among them — of which this pineapple version is one genericized member. It has also gone by other names, including downeaster, Hawaiian sea breeze and Paul Joseph, and its proportions are scaled from the IBA's specification for its sibling, the Sea Breeze.