Fuzzy Navel
A simple peach schnapps and orange juice highball for easy summer drinking.
Base spirit
Liqueur
Style
Highball
Glassware
Highball glass
Technique
Build
The Fuzzy Navel is a two-ingredient highball of peach schnapps and orange juice. Peach sweetness leads, orange juice provides body and citrus, and the drink stays light and approachable. Served over ice, it became a defining casual cocktail of the 1980s. Its simplicity is the point: quick to make and easy to recognize.
Did you know?
“The Fuzzy Navel is emblematic of 1980s American sweet highballs that paired fruit liqueurs with juice for easy, high-volume service.”
Source:1980s American cocktail histories
Bartender's Note
Use fresh orange juice when possible; bottled juice dulls the peach note. Adjust schnapps down if the brand is especially sweet.
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How to make the Fuzzy Navel
- 1Fill a highball glass with ice
- 2Add peach schnapps and orange juice
- 3Stir briefly
- 4Garnish with an orange wheel
