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Aqua Velva Cocktail

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

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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

Garnish: Lemon wedge & cherry skewered with a cocktail umbrella

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Hurricane glass

Method:

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

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Aqua Velva Cocktail contains 181 calories

Alcohol content:

2 standard drinks
26.53% alc./vol. (53.05° proof)
27.8 grams of pure alcohol

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.

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".

Ketel One Vodka 750ml - makes 20 cocktails
$19.99 $1.00 per cocktail Ketel One Vodka image

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 20 cocktails
$33.99 $1.70 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Bols Blue Curaçao 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$14.99 $0.45 per cocktail Bols Blue Curaçao image

$3.15 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 20 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Dr Miriam Hughes-Cholewa 4y

I made one out of nostalgia for my misspent youth. Down the sink and a negroni it is!