Name: Hey Hey
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Cognac (brandy); 22.5 ml Triple sec; 22.5 ml Aromatized wine; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 7.5 ml Chilled water; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Hey Hey
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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
⁵⁄₆ oz	Cognac (brandy)
³⁄₄ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix) optional
¹⁄₄ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Sidecar-like, with a good balance between sweet (triple sec) and sour (lemon juice), fortified by brandy and mellowed by aromatised wine. Stanley Jones' 1977 recipe calls for equal parts (¾oz a piece), but I prefer a tad more brandy and a scant spoon of sugar. I also added saline and a splash more dilution.

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Variant:

Hoopla
Hoop La!
Frank Sullivan Cocktail
Odd McIntyre

History:

The Hey Hey appears in the 1933 book Hollywood Cocktails and, a year later, in William T. Boothby's World Drinks And How To Mix Them. Exactly the same recipe also appears in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book and R. de Fleury's 1934 book 1700 Cocktails for the Man Behind the Bar. Indeed, this same recipe is repeated three times in both books, but under three different names: The Frank Sullivan, Hoop La! and Odd McIntyre. Hey Hey is this cocktail's fourth alias.

HEY HEY COCKTAIL.
¼ Lemon Juice
¼ Kina Lillet
¼ Cointreau
¼ Brandy
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Hollywood Cocktails, 1933

HEY HEY
Brandy . . . . . . . . . . ¼ jigger
Cointreau . . . . . . . . ¼ jigger
Kina Lillet . . . . . . . ¼ jigger
Lemon . . . . . . . . . . ¼ jigger
Shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass and serve.
William T. Boothby, Boothby's World Drinks And How To Mix Them, 1934

HEY HEY
Cocktail Glass
Shake
3/4 oz Lemon juice
3/4 oz Cointreau
3/4 oz brandy
3/4 oz Lillet
Stanley M. Jones, Jones' Complete Barguide, 1977

Nutrition:

One serving of Hey Hey contains 157 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
16.05% alc./vol. (32.11° proof)
16.9 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Benedikt

11th August 2025 at 15:07

Oh my lord this is good. Made it with Vecchia Romagna since I don't have any Cognac at home and with elderflower syrup instead of simple syrup, plain and simple because I reached for the wrong bottle. Sweeter than expected but very very well balanced nonetheless.

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