Purple Hooter

Both versions are in circulation. As a shot it's vodka, raspberry liqueur and lime, shaken and strained with no soda at all. This rocks build stretches the same proportions into something you can hold on to. Same drink, different pace.

Depends entirely on the bar, since neither name is standardized. Broadly, a Haze skips the soda and pours more liqueur, so it lands sweeter and heavier. This build keeps lime and liqueur level at 15 ml each, which is why it comes out tart rather than sugary.

Any decent framboise liqueur. Chambord brings vanilla and a little cognac weight; a plain creme de framboise is fruitier, simpler and cheaper. Steer clear of anything sold as raspberry schnapps, which is usually candy flavoring and will make the color look plastic.

Because 15 ml of it is spread through 90 ml of liquid, and Chambord is dark rather than strongly pigmented. Depth is what saves it: pour into a heavy-based rocks glass rather than a wide one, cut the soda to 20 ml, and the purple stacks up instead of washing out to pink.

A classic Purple Hooter calls for 30 ml (1 oz) Vodka, 15 ml (0.5 oz) Raspberry liqueur, 15 ml (0.5 oz) Fresh lime juice, 30 ml (1 oz) Lemon-lime soda. That single-serve spec scales cleanly — the recipe above converts it to oz and multiplies it for 2–4 drinks.

A standard Purple Hooter is roughly 16% ABV once mixed (before ice melt softens it further). That makes it about as strong as a glass of wine.

A Purple Hooter is built directly in the glass over ice — no shaker required. Add the ingredients in order and give it a brief, gentle stir.