Harvey Wallbanger Cocktail
- Medium
- sour
- dry
A sour and dry, medium-strength cocktail, stirred until cold, served in a collins glass.
Serve in: collins glass
Ingredients
- 1.5 ozvodka
- 0.5 ozGalliano L'Autentico liqueur
- 3 ozFresh orange juice
- 1orange sliceoptional
- Ice cubesoptional
How to Make a Harvey Wallbanger
Instructions
- Add the vodka and orange juice to a glass with ice and stir a few times until cold.
- Pour the Galliano over the back of a spoon onto the drink.
Garnish
Decorate with an orange slice.
Tips & substitutions
- No vodka? Try gin.
The glass
Serve this one in a collins glass. A collins glass is a glass tumbler which typically is used to serve mixed drinks, especially Tom Collins or John Collins cocktails. It is cylindrical in shape and narrower and taller than a highball glass.
Did you know
Donato “Duke” Antone, according to longstanding legend, is the creator of the Wallbanger, in the 1950s. It’s said he named it after a Manhattan Beach surfer and bar regular named Tom Harvey who's favourite drink was a Screwdriver with added Galliano. Harvey Wallbanger may have been invented in the ’50s but it didn’t become a sensation until the early 1970s.George Bednar, a company’s marketing director, created an ad campaign that helped the drink fly off shelves as customers began to order it by name. However, recent research by culinary historians casts doubt on this theory.
