Woo woo

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Woo woo
Cocktail
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The woo woo cocktail
Type Mixed drink
Served On the rocks: poured over ice
Standard garnish Lime Wedge
Standard drinkware
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Highball glass
Commonly used ingredients
PreparationBuild all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with lime wedge.

A woo woo (also called teeny weeny woo woo) [1] [2] is an alcoholic beverage made of vodka, peach schnapps, and cranberry juice. It is typically served as a cocktail in a highball glass or can be served as a shot. [2] It can also be served in a rocks glass. [3] The ingredients are shaken together with ice or stirred. A lime wedge is used as a garnish. [3]

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The drink became popular in the 1980s along with other cocktails containing peach schnapps such as the Fuzzy Navel and Silk Panties. [1] [2] Writing on the then-recent rise of peach schnapps in Esquire for March 1988, food and drink writer William Grimes commented: [4]

In the "flavor-driven" cordial and liqueur market, peach has taken the lead. But where, exactly, are we being led? Into the land of very strange drinks. Lane Barnett, vice-president of James B. Beam Distilling, which bought National Distillers last May, asserts with a straight face that something called a Woo Woo (peach schnapps, vodka, and cranberry juice) is very big on the East Coast. He doesn't quite have the courage to come out with the drink's full name: Teeny Weeny Woo Woo. Do not order this in a strange bar.

The woo woo is a relative of the Cape Codder (vodka and cranberry juice) and both share highball relatives in the Sea Breeze, the Bay Breeze, the Madras, and Sex on the Beach. [5] The baby woo woo is a shooter variation containing equal parts vodka, peach schnapps, and cranberry juice. [6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Grimes, William (2001). Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail (First revised ed.). North Point Press. p. 123. ISBN   9780865476011.
  2. 1 2 3 Cross, Robert (2003). The Classic 1000 Cocktails. Foulsham. p. 149. ISBN   9780572028527.
  3. 1 2 Calabrese, Salvator (2002). Complete Home Bartender's Guide. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 135. ISBN   9781402726484.
  4. ↑ Grimes, William (March 1988). "Impeachable Offenses". Esquire . p. 36. ISSN   0194-9535.
  5. ↑ Regan, Gary (2003). The Joy of Mixology (First ed.). Clarkson Potter. p. 148. ISBN   978-0-609-60884-5.
  6. ↑ Calabrese, Salvator (2002). Complete Home Bartender's Guide. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 208. ISBN   9781402726484.


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