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Usually these drinks are enjoyed in the warmer months but brunch cocktails don’t really seem to have a season, do they? I mean, I’ll take a mimosa any time of the year and a Bloody Mary or a Michelada? I’ll mix those up for you any time you’d like me to.

We love refreshing warm weather drinks like a classic Sea Breeze! Also be sure to check out our other classics, a frozen Piña Colada and this tropical Mai Tai!Īlthough we would drink this Sea Breeze Cocktail any time of the day, we especially enjoy it for brunch! There’s always the standard champagne cocktails and the Bloody Mary bar, but if you want to keep it light and refreshing this Sea Breeze is the way to go! Drinking alcohol is illegal on most California beaches, which makes mocktails a safe choice for oceanside sipping.A Sea Breeze Cocktail is a classic drink recipe! The refreshing combination of cranberry juice, grapefruit juice and vodka makes the perfect summer drink! There’s one more reason why we love the nonalcoholic Sea Breeze: it can go places where spirited beverages cannot. We love how the nonalcoholic gin and hops infused sparkling water deliver authentic gin flavor – without any spirits. The following Sea Breeze mocktail recipe brings together elements of both the original and Ocean Spray versions to create a delicious alcohol-free cocktail with just the right amount of complexity. Today, the Sea Breeze is being reinvented yet again as the low and no alcohol beverage trend renews interest in nonalcoholic cocktails. During the martini bar heyday of the late 1990s and 2000s the Sea Breeze lost ground to its socialite cousin the Cosmopolitan. In the 1980s the Ocean Spray version of the Sea Breeze was the cranberry cocktail of choice for leisure seekers and big city clubbers. They gave it the refreshing name “Sea Breeze,” perhaps unaware that a different cocktail by the same name already existed. In the 1960s Ocean Spray shared the recipe for a spirited cranberry cocktail that included grapefruit juice and vodka. In an effort to recover, the cranberry grower’s cooperative known as Ocean Spray began publishing recipe booklets to encourage the use of cranberries in food and beverages. In 1959, a pesticide scare in the Pacific Northwest decimated the U.S. The vodka-cranberry Sea Breeze version has an intriguing story. While vodka provides a cleaner alcohol taste, we are partial to the complexity that gin’s fresh botanicals bring to the cocktail flavor. However, the original Sea Breeze had neither cranberry juice nor vodka, but was a spritely mix of lemon, grenadine, apricot brandy, bitters, and dry gin. The origin of the Sea Breeze cocktail is somewhat murky, but the flavor of today’s version is crystal clear: ruby red cranberry and grapefruit juices mingle with vodka and perhaps a squeeze of lime. What better beverage to sip by the surf than the aptly-named Sea Breeze cocktail? Perhaps the most popular beach holiday of all is the Fourth of July. Holiday weekends have everyone flocking to the beach, where laid-back locals and sun dazzled tourists lounge side-by-side on the warm sand. Here in Southern California, we know that summer has arrived when thousands of sunbathers dot the long stretches of golden coastline.