Black Russian
50 ml Vodka, 20 ml Coffee liqueur
Woo Woo
Vodka, peach and cranberry - three ingredients, no ceremony.
Fruity
Easy
2 min
Photo: Woo Woo by Stuart Webster from Southampton, England · CC BY 2.0 · All credits
Ingredients
Measures below are multiplied for 6 drinks. Unmeasurable amounts such as “a splash” are left as written.
- 180 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 180 ml line. Vodka
- 180 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 180 ml line. Peach schnapps
- 360 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 360 ml line. Cranberry juice
- 6 wedges Lime wedge (optional)
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What the jigger, the spoons and the jug hold, in millilitres and in fluid ounces, is on the measures reference.
Quick version
- Measure equal vodka and peach schnapps over ice, top with cranberry, stir.
Method
Pitcher (6 drinks)Pitcher (6 drinks) - about 720 ml of measured ingredients, before ice and dilution.
Timings and per-glass steps below are written for one drink and are not scaled. A full jug takes longer to chill, so stir or shake until it is properly cold rather than by the clock, and pour over fresh ice one glass at a time.
- Fill a highball glass with ice.
- Pour in the vodka and the peach schnapps.
- Top with the cranberry juice and stir once or twice.
- Squeeze the lime wedge over the top and drop it in.
Serve it
Volumes in this story are multiplied for the size above, along with the ingredients. Years, ratios and the capacities of glasses and jugs are left as written.
Woo Woo
Named, as so many of the best drinks are, after the way people say it at a bar: two syllables, cheerful, and impossible to over-think. It arrived in the 1980s, it never left, and it is very hard to be sad while holding one.
Getting it right
Equal vodka and peach schnapps, twice as much cranberry - that is the whole recipe. Because there is so little to it, everything shows: use a cranberry juice with some bite rather than a sweetened cranberry drink, and add the squeeze of lime, which is what keeps it from tasting like squash. Serve it very cold and over lots of ice.
Tasting notes
Peach and berries, clean and bright, with a soft tart edge from the cranberry. The sort of drink that disappears before you have noticed you were drinking it.
It is the sober cousin of the Sea Breeze and the grown-up cousin of a glass of juice, and it takes about ninety seconds to make - which is exactly why it is worth knowing.
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