Highball Drinks Overview and Recipes

Highball drinks typically include a base spirit, a mixer, and are served over ice in a highball or collins glass.
Common garnishes enhance the flavor, often featuring various fruits like lime or orange.

Highball: 1 oz whiskey, topped with ginger ale, served with a sip stick.
Waterball: 1 oz whiskey mixed with water, served similarly to a highball.
Scotch and Soda: 1 oz scotch, filled with soda water; flexible for other liquors.
7&7: Combination of 1 oz Seagram's 7 and 7-Up, adaptable for different liquors.
Gin and Tonic: 1 oz gin, topped with tonic water, garnished with lime; other spirits can be substituted.

Cuba Libre: 1 oz light rum mixed with Coke, garnished with lime.
Cape Codder: 1 oz vodka combined with cranberry juice and garnished with lime.
Madras: 1 oz vodka mixed equal parts with cranberry and orange juice.
Sea Breeze: 1 oz vodka blended with a half and half mix of cranberry and grapefruit juice.
Bay Breeze: 1 oz vodka combined with cranberry and pineapple juices, equally mixed.

Scarlet O'Hara: 1 oz Southern Comfort with cranberry juice, garnished with lime.
Greyhound: 1 oz vodka mixed with grapefruit juice; a variation is the Salty Dog which adds salt to the rim.
Screwdriver: Classic mix of 1 oz vodka and orange juice.
Fuzzy Navel: 1 oz peach schnapps combined with orange juice.
Hairy Navel: 1 oz vodka and orange juice topped with 1 oz peach schnapps in a collins glass.
Woo Woo: 1 oz vodka mixed with cranberry juice, topped with ½ oz peach schnapps.
Harvey Wallbanger: 1 oz vodka mixed almost to the top with orange juice, finished with a ½ oz float of Galliano.