Harvey Wallbanger
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The Harvey Wallbanger is a mixed drink made with vodka, Galliano, and orange juice. It is a variant of the screwdriver, and was very popular in the United States in the 1970s.
History
The Harvey Wallbanger was created in 1969 as a marketing campaign by McKesson Imports Company, importer of Galliano, as a means of promoting Galliano. The campaign was headed by George Bednar, marketing director of McKesson, and a cartoon character was commissioned from graphic artist William J. "Bill" Young in Lima, New York,<ref name="Andreatta">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> with the tagline that Bednar claimed to have penned: "Harvey Wallbanger is the name. And I can be made!"<ref name=Simonson/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Harvey Wallbanger character was a surfer, appearing in various advertisements during the campaign, and was mentioned in print as early as 1969,<ref name=Simonson/> continuing into the 1970s.<ref>Commercial prints and labels: Volumes 21–26 by Library of Congress. Copyright Office in 1971</ref><ref>"Harvey Wallbanger is taking Bloody Mary's place at brunch; try a drink with Galliano." Sports Illustrated, p. 9 (May 31, 1971).</ref> The recipe displayed in the advertisements is: "6 oz. O.J., 1 oz. vodka, stir with ice, splash in Template:Frac oz. Galliano".<ref name="Andreatta"/>
The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers were nicknamed “Harvey’s Wallbangers,” in honor of their manager that season, Harvey Kuenn, and for their exciting style of play. The drink remained popular among Brewers fans for many years, as result.
The cocktail itself is credited to three-time world champion mixologist Donato "Duke" Antone, of Hartford, Connecticut, where he ran a bartending school, Bartending School of Mixology, and worked as a cocktail consultant.<ref name="Simonson">Template:Cite news</ref> It is unclear if Antone designed the drink for Galliano (to advertise the ingredient),<ref name="Simonson"/> or renamed an existing drink, as suggested by his grandson, who claimed the earlier version was called "Duke's Screwdriver".<ref name="Dangremond">Template:Cite news</ref> An implausible story of the origin is that it was invented in 1952 by Antone, and named after a surfer frequenting Antone's Blackwatch Bar on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. This is implausible because at the time, Antone was running a bartending school in Hartford, and there is no evidence of any "Blackwatch Bar" in Los Angeles at the time, so it is presumably a fabrication; spirits writer Robert Simonson goes so far as to say that "no sane person ever believed that story."<ref name="Dangremond" />
Cocktail historian David Wondrich considers the Harvey Wallbanger the first successful consultant-created cocktail saying,