Freddy Fudpucker

Float it. Pour slowly over the back of a spoon so it sits as a yellow layer, and every sip drags a little vanilla and anise across the orange. Stirred in, it dissolves into the juice and you may as well have skipped it.

Same build, different base, and the tequila is doing more than standing in. Vodka lets the Galliano's vanilla and anise sit on plain orange juice; blanco tequila puts pepper and green agave underneath, so the anise reads savory rather than sweet. Whether that's an improvement is taste, but it isn't the same drink.

Mix the tequila and juice in a jug by all means; the Galliano has to go on individually. Stirred through a batch it turns into background sweetness, and 8 ml a head is far too little to register that way. Pour the base over ice, then float each one. It takes four seconds.

A classic Freddy Fudpucker calls for 45 ml (1.5 oz) Tequila, 90 ml (3 oz) Orange juice, 8 ml (0.25 oz) Galliano. That single-serve spec scales cleanly — the recipe above converts it to oz and multiplies it for 2–4 drinks.

A standard Freddy Fudpucker is roughly 15% ABV once mixed (before ice melt softens it further). That makes it about as strong as a glass of wine.

Serve a Freddy Fudpucker in a highball (tall) glass, over fresh ice cubes.

One Freddy Fudpucker has approximately 170 calories, estimated from the standard spec above. Bigger pours, extra syrup or sweetened mixers raise that number quickly.