The Ultimate Black Betty Drink

If you like your cocktails fizzy and fruity, this Black Betty drink is a must try. It has a sweet yet light and fruity refreshing flavor that is sure to hit the spot.

What is a Black Betty Drink?

A black Betty drink is a combination of peach schnapps, blackberry liqueur, lime juice and club soda. The resulting cocktail tastes like a peach sweet tea with a giant squeeze of lime and a refreshing fizz. It is a pretty reddish orange colored drink.

Peach schnapps is a type of schnapps that has an extremely strong peach flavor. It is a very sweet liqueur. It is a low alcohol by volume drink at around 30 proof or 15% alcohol by volume.

Blackberry liqueur is a sweet liqueur that tastes like blackberry jam. There are a few variations you can use for this such as Chambord or creme de mure. Chambord based cocktails are common since they have a pretty color.

The lime juice in this drink lends a tart and tangy citrus flavor. While the club soda adds a bubble and fizz to the drink.

Occasions for this drink

With its pretty color and fizzy sweet flavor, this cocktail is perfect for occasions such as:

• casual gatherings
• summertime sipping
• brunch
• afternoon drinks

Variations for this drink

There are several ways you can change this drink up such as:

• Substitute out Chambord. Chambord is actually a black raspberry liqueur that is commonly used for drinks such as this. However, if you want a more true to taste blackberry liqueur then try creme de mure or make your own blackberry liqueur.
• Make it a wild black Betty. Wild Black Betty really only has lime juice in common. You’ll substitute in two types of whiskey, grenadine and Southern comfort.
• Different ingredients. There’s actually another drink with the same name. But very different ingredients such as: dark rum, Sherry, fernet, amaro Montenegro.

Some similar cocktails are the: hurricane cocktail, planters punch, back shot drink and the landshark drink.

How to make this drink:

To make this drink all you need is four simple ingredients and about 5 minutes. All you do is toss everything together and give it a good shake.

Equipment:

• highball glass
• jigger
• cocktail shaker
• Hawthorne strainer
• bar spoon

Ingredients:

• 2 oz peach schnapps
• 2 oz blackberry liqueur
• 2 oz lime juice
• top with club soda
• Ice

Instructions:

Step one

To begin, make sure you have everything needed to make your drink including lime juice, club soda, peach schnapps, blackberry liqueur, highball glass, jigger and cocktail shaker or bar spoon.

Step two

Take some ice and use it to fill your highball glass up.

Step three

Use your jigger and measure out 2 oz of chambord. Go ahead and pour the chambord into the highball glass.

Step four

Use your jigger and measure out 2 oz of lime juice. Go ahead and pour the lime juice into the highball gloss with the Chambord.

Step Five

You should figure it and measure out 2 oz of peach schnapps. Go ahead and pour the peach schnapps into the highball glass with the lime juice and chambord.

Step Six

Take your club soda and use it to top off the drink filling it almost to the top of the glass.

Step Seven

Next, you need to get your drink stirred up. You have two options to do this.

First, you can carefully dump the drink from your glass into your shaker and then from your shaker back into the glass. Do be careful when doing this because the club soda can get fizzy.

The other option is to use a bar spoon. Simply take the bar spoon and put it in the glass. Then give everything a good couple stirs.

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