Harvey Wallbanger Recipe | Epicurious

An Italian-accented riff on a screwdriver cocktail, the unique Harvey Wallbanger recipe is credited to a midcentury American mixologist named Donato “Duke” Antone. As legend has it, Antone created the now-famous drink recipe on the Blackwatch Bar in Los Angeles someday within the Forties or Nineteen Fifties. Like many Hollywood darlings, the cocktail wasn’t “found” straight away: Within the late Sixties, George Bednar, advertising director for McKesson Imports, the corporate that imported Italian liqueur Galliano to the USA, tasted Antone’s creation and was smitten. With a impartial vodka base and recent orange juice, the Galliano shines right here with notes of cooling anise, heat vanilla, and a woodsy, natural spine. Bednar rechristened the vodka cocktail the Harvey Wallbanger and used it to launch a nationwide marketing campaign encouraging residence bartenders to throw cocktail events in alternate without cost merchandise. The marketing campaign’s success turned the standard drink into a contemporary classic cocktail (and impressed residence bakers to make citrusy, natural Harvey Wallbanger cakes).

Because the Harvey Wallbanger is constructed within the glass you’ll sip it from, slightly than in a cocktail shaker, it’s simple to scale up for brunch or a cocktail occasion. Use fresh-squeezed orange juice for one of the best taste.