Ruby Relaxer

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Teh Intarweb claims that this is the recipe for a Ruby Relaxer as served at Ruby Tuesday's restaurant. Worth trying it out anyway:

1 oz. vodka
1 oz. coconut rum
1 oz. peach schnapps
2 oz. pineapple juice
2 oz. cranberry juice
garnish with a slice of fresh orange

Comments

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried that, but it sounds tasty. It also sounds as if "relax" is putting it mildly...

[cellio]

That sounds tasty.

Check me on this (I'm not fluent in mixology), but isn't this rather more alcohol than usually goes into a single drink?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Well, it varies pretty widely; a Manhattan or a Martini is rather stronger than that, but a fruit juice drink like this would probably be a bit on the lighter side. Recently there's been more of a tendency to add extra liquor, especially vodka, to all drinks. You could probably omit the vodka and still have quite a nice drink.

[jducoeur]

It's a tad strong, but not unusual -- for example, it's only a bit stronger than the cocktails that I was serving at our Memorial Day Party on Monday. (Long Island Lemonade, which involves five different boozes.)

Calculating it out, the boozes in the above average roughly 1/3 alcohol (ballpark), so that's about 1 ounce of solid alcohol. So it comes out to a bit more than one glass of wine or bottle of beer, but less than two...

[cellio]

Yeah, I guess you're right -- the schnapps is way lower in alcohol than the vodka. (I don't know what "coconut rum" is; I was counting it as rum, but if it's dilluted some that would be relevant.) Regardless, it does sound tasty!

[jimpage363.livejournal.com]

That sounds like it would certainly smooth an evening right out! Thanks for sharing!