The perfect drink for those wishing to get plastered by noon, the Long Island Iced Tea represents a blend of the most generic liquors in the booze cabinet. By the time you hit glass number 4, you’ll be ready to argue with your closest friends, pick a fight with a racoon, and commit whatever drunken misdemeanor takes your fancy. Right, lets get down to the nitty-gritty…
Long Island Iced Tea
Equipment
- 1 Tall Glass
Ingredients
- Lots Ice
- 20 ml White Rum
- 20 ml Silver Tequila
- 20 ml Gin
- 20 ml Vodka
- 20 ml Triple Sec
- 15 ml Lime Juice
- 40 ml Cola
- 2 Lime Wedges (To Garnish)
Instructions
- Fill a tall glass to the brim with ice
- Pour in 20ml of each of the Gin, Tequila, Rum, Vodka, and Triple Sec
- Add 15ml of Lime Juice
- Top with 40ml of Cola
- Take the cocktail stirrer, and stir the drink from the bottom up
- Garnish with a couple of lime wedges
- Add a turtle friendly (unless you have particular beef with turtle-kind) paper or metal straw and serve
Nutrition
A Little Knowledge Goes a Long Way
The Long Island Iced Tea Glass
Those with a penchant for a Long Island Iced Tea generally want other people to know what they’re drinking. As such, there’s no pomp in drinking from a standard highball glass, so in order to create a spectacle, find something nice and tall. I generally use these pilsner glasses (pictured), it’s not the best looking vessel, but robust enough to survive a few knocks by wayward drunks, and tall enough to tower over the cocktail domain.
The Alcohol
Whereas using the highest quality alcohols for such a drink is a bit overkill, budding cocktail makers should also avoid the cheapest booze. My go to liquors for a long island come in the shape of: Gordon’s Gin, Bacardi Blanco Rum, Stolichnaya Vodka, Jose Cuervo Silver Tequila, and Cointreau Triple Sec.
Sugar Syrup
A number of folks will insist in the addition of simple sugar syrup in order to sweeten the deal. However, I’m of the opinion that cola represents one of the sweetest substances known to man, and contains more than enough sugar for a Long Island Iced Tea.
The Original Long Island Iced Tea
According to legend, a grand fellow named Old Man Bishop invented the original version of the now infamous drink back in the 1920s. This prohibition era beverage used whiskey instead of triple sec, and sweetened with Maple Syrup instead of cola. This then satisfied the alcohol starved folks of the time with an astonishingly hazardous tipple!
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