Ingredients
- 1 oz Blue Curacao Liqueur
- 1 oz Triple Sec
- 1 oz Butterscotch Schnapps
- 2 oz Orange Juice
- fill with Ice
Instructions
Combine Ingredients:
- Add 1 oz of blue curaçao, 1 oz of triple sec, 1 oz of butterscotch schnapps, and 2 oz of orange juice into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
Shake Well:
- Shake the mixture well to combine and chill the ingredients.
Strain and Serve:
- Strain the cocktail into a Champagne flute.
Enjoy:
- Serve immediately and enjoy your refreshing and bold Sex in the Shower Cocktail.
Notes
Estimated Nutrition:
Where it came from
Sex on the Beach kicked off the family in the 1980s. Sex in the Shower is one of dozens of named variants that swap a juice or a liqueur for a different visual. This version uses blue curacao for the colour and butterscotch for the sweetness.
It travels under multiple names. Blue Beach, Hawaiian Sunset, dozens more. The recipe is the same. Orange juice plus a tropical liqueur plus a coloured one for the camera.
What it tastes like
Orange juice up front, candy butterscotch in the middle, citrus orange peel from the curacao at the back. Sweet, fizzy and shaped like a tropical holiday drink.
Plenty of ice is the secret. The drink is sweet so it needs the dilution to keep moving.
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Ingredient Spotlight
The bottles that make or break this drink.
The blue curacao
- Use
- Bols Blue or Senior Curacao
- Why
- The blue is half the drink, do not skimp
The butterscotch
- Use
- DeKuyper Buttershots
- Skip
- Butterscotch syrup, all sugar no booze
The orange juice
- Use
- Fresh squeezed if possible, smooth if not
- Skip
- From-concentrate harsh OJ, makes the drink go acidic
What if I don't have…
Quick substitutions for when the bottle shop is closed.
Triple sec plus a few drops of blue food colouring.
Caramel liqueur or vanilla syrup.
Pineapple juice. Drink shifts more tropical, still works.
Cut the butterscotch in half and add a squeeze of fresh lemon.
Skip it. The blue curacao is itself an orange liqueur.
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