Our second cocktail is another long one; a Long Island Iced Tea.
The cocktail has been criticized for its large number of ingredients, making it cumbersome to prepare in busy bars. It is considered a favorite of university students in the United States and it has thus garnered negative connotations as “an act of mixological atrocity favored by college students and wastrels”, in the words of one food critic.
The drink is a polarizing choice between bartenders, with some favoring the drink and others disliking it. However, the variety of spirits needed to prepare the drink also mean that one can prepare many other types of cocktails if they have the ingredients for a Long Island already.
The cocktail’s flavor has been described as “bright and refreshing”. It is easy to drink, making it “dangerously boozy”.
Long Island iced tea – from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AuthorThe Cocktails Must FlowCategoryCola, Lemon Juice, Lime Wheel, London Dry Gin, Simple Syrup, Triple Sec, Vodka, White Rum, White TequilaDifficultyBeginnerAn official IBA cocktail created by Robert "Rosebud" Butt while he worked at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island, New York.
A Long Island iced tea or Long Island ice tea is a type of cocktail typically made with vodka, tequila, light rum, triple sec, gin, and a splash of cola, which gives the drink the same amber hue as iced tea.
Fill a highball ice with glass.
Add all ingredients and stir gently.
Garnish with a lemon wheel (optional).
There are two competing origin stories for the Long Island iced tea, one from Long Island, Tennessee and one from Long Island, New York.
Robert "Rosebud" Butt claims to have invented the Long Island iced tea as an entry in a contest to create a new mixed drink with triple sec in 1972 while he worked at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island, New York.
A slightly different drink is claimed to have been invented in the 1920s during Prohibition in the United States by an "Old Man Bishop" in a local community named Long Island in Kingsport, Tennessee. The drink was then tweaked by Ransom Bishop, Old Man Bishop's son, by adding cola, lemon, and lime. Old Man's version included whiskey, maple syrup, varied quantities of the five liquors, and no triple sec, rather than the modern one with cola and five equal portions of the five liquors. It was prepared in the following way:
- Squeeze 1⁄2 a fresh lemon and 1⁄2 a fresh lime into a 16 US fl oz (470 ml) glass
- Add 1⁄2 US fl oz (15 ml) rum, 1⁄2 oz. gin, 1⁄2 oz tequila, 1 US fl oz (30 ml) vodka, 1 oz. whiskey, and 1⁄2 oz. maple syrup
- Mix, then add 4 US fl oz (120 ml) of cola
Long Island iced tea - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a highball ice with glass.
Add all ingredients and stir gently.
Garnish with a lemon wheel (optional).