Harvey Wallbanger
Harvey Wallbanger is an alcoholic cocktail . It is a variant of the simple long drink Screwdriver , which, in addition to its ingredients orange juice and vodka, is also supplemented by a shot of the Italian liqueur Galliano . If you replace the vodka part with tequila , the cocktail is called Freddy Fudpucker .
history
The Harvey Wallbanger spread in the 1970s and was also initially known as the Italian Screwdriver . According to a legend that is told in different versions, the drink got its catchy name from a Californian surfer named Harvey. After he was excluded from a competition, he is said to have banged his head against the wall again and again in Pancho's Bar on Manhattan Beach after enjoying several of these drinks out of frustration ( English wall wall and to bang hit, pop). The figure is probably an invention from advertising. In a large-scale campaign for Galliano liqueur, which is said to go back to the former football player and then sales manager George Bednar and which contributed significantly to the spread of the drink, the surfer Harvey was shown as a cartoon character . Early written mentions of the drink are documented from 1971.
preparation
The long drink is "built in the glass" (that is, prepared directly in the guest glass and not in a cocktail shaker or mixing glass ). To do this, fill a large Collins or highball glass with ice cubes and about 4 cl vodka , add - depending on your taste, about three times the amount - orange juice just below the edge of the glass and finally let about 2 cl Galliano flow over it. Usually the drink is served without a garnish, but Dale DeGroff mentions a variant with cinnamon and sugar on the edge of the glass.
literature
- Rob Chirico: Field Guide to Cocktails: How to Identify and Prepare Virtually Every Mixed Drink at the Bar . Quirk Books 2005, ISBN 1-59474-063-1 , pp. 137-139 ( excerpt (Google) )
- Dale DeGroff : The Essential Cocktail: The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks . Potter (Random Huse), 2010, ISBN 978-0-307-76245-0 , p. 368 .
- Scott C. Martin (Ed.): The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives . Sage, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4833-7438-3 , p. 1501 .
