Ingredients
- .5 oz Blue Curacao Liqueur
- .5 oz Raspberry Liqueur
- 1 oz Lemon Vodka
- 1 Splash(s) Cranberry Juice
- 1 Splash(s) Sours
- 1 Splash(s) Lemonade
- 1 Lemon
Instructions
Combine Ingredients:
- In a shaker filled with ice, combine .5 oz blue curacao liqueur, .5 oz raspberry liqueur, 1 oz lemon vodka, a splash of cranberry juice, a splash of sours, and a splash of lemonade.
Shake Well:
- Shake vigorously until well chilled.
Strain and Serve:
- Strain the mixture into a glass.
Garnish:
- Garnish with a lemon wedge or twist.
Serve:
- Serve immediately and enjoy.
Notes
Estimated Nutrition:
Where it came from
Named in the same vein as the Purple Hooter and the Purple Rain. Bartender drinks where blue and red liqueur produce purple are everywhere on chain bar menus from the 1990s onward. Allison gets the credit on this one because someone named her at a bar.
It travels close to the Adios Motherfucker family but trades the multiple white spirits for a single citrus vodka.
What it tastes like
Sweet raspberry hits first, lemon vodka cuts through, cranberry rounds the back, lemonade lifts the whole thing. The blue curacao is mostly there for the colour but adds a faint orange peel note.
Plenty of ice keeps it moving. The sour mix and the lemonade are the balance, drop one and the drink goes flat.
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Ingredient Spotlight
The bottles that make or break this drink.
The lemon vodka
- Use
- Absolut Citron or Smirnoff Citrus
- Why
- You want bright citrus, not a generic lemon flavouring
The raspberry liqueur
- Use
- Chambord or Briottet
- Skip
- Raspberry syrup, no alcohol no body
The colour build
- Use
- Red from raspberry, blue from curacao
- Why
- The two combine for the deep purple
What if I don't have…
Quick substitutions for when the bottle shop is closed.
Plain vodka plus a 5 ml splash of fresh lemon juice.
Briottet, Lejay or Mathilde. Any blackberry-style would also work.
Triple sec plus a few drops of blue food colouring.
Pomegranate juice or Ocean Spray Light Cranberry.
Half the vodka, double the lemonade.
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