Name: Aqua Velva Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 37.5 ml Vodka; 37.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; Top up with Lemon-lime soda

Aqua Velva Cocktail
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Serve in a Hurricane glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₄ oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 ¹⁄₄ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Bols Blue Curaçao
Top up with	Lemon-lime soda (Sprite/7-Up)

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Garnish: Lemon wedge & cherry skewered with a cocktail umbrella

How to make:

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. Top with lemonade.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Loaded with booze and with an aqua marine blue hue (as the name suggests), this citrusy drink was made for the 1980s. We're sure Del Boy would have described it as being "cushty" or even "lovely jubbly".

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History:

This cocktail takes both its name and blue hue from Blue Aqua Velva aftershave which urban myth purports was consumed by sailors during WWII for its alcohol content. At some point, probably the 1980s, someone created this cocktail in homage to the fragrance.

In the 2007 American mystery-thriller movie Zodiac with Jake Gyllenhaal playing Robert Graysmith a Political cartoonist who receives and interprets encrypted letters from the killer who calls himself the "Zodiac", this cocktail is depicted as being the character's preferred drink.

Nutrition:

One serving of Aqua Velva Cocktail contains 181 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
26.53% alc./vol. (26.53° proof)
25.9 grams of pure alcohol

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