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Long Island Iced Tea

How much tea is in Long Island Iced Tea? None. It only looks like iced tea: four spirits, triple sec, sour mix and a splash of cola for the color. Bartender Bob “Rosebud” Butt says he made it for a cocktail contest at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island, New York, in 1972. Kingsport, Tennessee, claims an older version from its own Long Island.

Ingredients

  • 0.75 oz 22.5 mlVodka
  • 0.75 oz 22.5 mlGin
  • 0.75 oz 22.5 mlWhite Rum
  • 0.75 oz 22.5 mlTequila
  • 2 oz 60 mlSweet and Sour Mix
  • 1 oz 30 mlCola
  • 1 oz 30 mlTriple Sec
  • built
  • highball
  • Lemon wedge

Method

  1. Fill a highball glass with ice.
  2. Pour vodka, gin, white rum, tequila, triple sec and sweet and sour mix into the highball.
  3. Top with 1 oz cola.
  4. Garnish with a lemon wedge on the rim.

Where it comes from

Oak Beach Inn, Long Island
For a contest: a new drink with triple sec

Taste

How the Long Island Iced Tea tastes

It's mostly herbal and sweet. In the app, your own taste shows on top of this chart as a dashed line.

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