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Long Island Iced Tea Cocktail: A Step-by-Step Recipe Guide
A thrilling, ole time classic cocktail, the Long Island Iced Tea is a vibrant and flavorful cocktail. Our unique variation of the Long Island Iced Tea is a combination of Ketel One Vodka, Don Julio Blanco Tequila, Captain Morgan's Original Spiced Rum, and Tanqueray Dry Gin, this cocktail offers a medley of flavours that are sure to excite the palate, creating a refreshing and spirited drink. The Long Island Iced Tea cocktail is to be indulged due to its energetic and playful nature. Whether enjoyed as a social sipper or a celebratory sipper, we can promise this cocktail will deliver a memorable and enjoyable tea time experience. Cheers!
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Unveiling the Secret of an Improved Long Island Iced Tea
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This improved version of the Long Island Iced Tea was created the beverage director of Porchlight NYC, Nick Bennett. Nick also spent time behind the stick alongside Dave Arnold at Booker & Dax. His Long Island Iced Tea recipe sees a few subtle improvements including the use of aged instead of unaged rum and tequila, a spiced citrus syrup, Fever-tree cola and a healthy dose of Angostura bitters.
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LONG ISLAND ICED TEA INGREDIENTS:
- 1/2 oz (15 ml) vodka (
- 1/2 oz (15 ml) gin (
- 1/2 oz (15 ml) aged Guyanese rum, preferably El Dorado 8 (
- 1/2 oz (15 ml) reposado tequila (
- 3/4 oz (22.5 ml) Cointreau (
- 3/4 oz (22.5 ml) lemon juice
- 1/2 oz (15 ml) citrus syrup (see below)
- Cola to top, preferably Fever-Tree
- 4 dashes Angostura bitters
SPICED CITRUS SYRUP RECIPE
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- 1 lemon zest
- 1 lime zest
- 550 grams water
- 525 grams sugar
- 12 grams ginger, chopped
- 1.25 grams salt
- 22.5 ml lime juice
- 15 ml lemon juice
- Citric ( + malic acid ( based on syrup volume (see below)
METHOD
1. Combine all ingredients except the juices.
2. Simmer for 20 mins.
3. Add the lemon and lime juices.
4. Let the syrup cool and filter.
5. Measure the volume in milliliters, then add 10 grams citric acid and 5 grams malic acid per 1000 milliliters syrup.
6. Stir until the acids are dissolved.
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Long Island Iced Tea recipe
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Surprising to some, the Long Island Iced Tea doesn't actually contain tea. Most likely named for it's tea-like appearance - this also hints to the drinks origins during prohibition when some drinks were made to look like tea.
During US prohibition in the 1920s there was a drink being concocted called the Old Man Bishop - created by Charles “Old Man” Bishop. This was in a small community called Long Island in Kingsport, Tennessee.
Legend has it that Bishop threw together his drink using rum, vodka, gin, tequila, whiskey instead of triple sec and also had the addition of maple syrup. His son later refined it in the 1940s making it closer to the well known Long Island Iced Tea recipe that we know today. It was this recipe that was featured in a Betty Crocker’s cookbook in 1961.
Another 10 or more years later we have another person that claims to be the creator of the Long Island Iced Tea, Bob “Rosebud” Butt. He claims to have created it for a cocktail competition for Triple Sec at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island in the 1970s. His recipe closely reflects the recipe that most of us know today.
Originally the drink was most likely built over ice but a quick shake to combine the ingredients will do it justice. Rosebud's recipe calls for equal and full measures of each ingredient but I advise opting for 15mL/22.5mL (0.5 oz / 0.75 oz) measurements if you plan on remembering your night.
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INGREDIENTS
- 22.5mL Vodka (0.75 oz)
- 22.5mL Gin (0.75 oz)
- 22.5mL White Rum (0.75 oz)
- 22.5mL Blanco Tequila (0.75 oz)
- 22.5mL Triple Sec (0.75 oz)
- 22.5mL Sour Mix (0.75 oz)
- Dash of Cola
METHOD
Sour Mix:
1 Part Fresh Lemon Juice
1 Part Simple Syrup
Long Island Iced Tea:
1. Combine all the ingredients to your cocktail shaker (except cola)
2. Shake with ice
3. Strain over fresh ice into a high ball glass
4. Top with a dash of cola
5. Garnish with a slice of lime or lemon
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Make the Best EVER Long Island Iced Tea
The Long Island Iced Tea is a potent concoction for those undecided on a base spirit. If you’re a bartender, chances are you’ve been asked to make one of these before. No matter the type of bar, sooner or later, a Long Island will be ordered. Don’t feel the need to buy all top shelf liquors for this drink. Not only would that be pricey to make, but with so many flavors, the nuances of each spirit could get lost. This one's not for the faint of heart. Cheers!
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LONG ISLAND ICED TEA RECIPE
1 oz. (30 ml) Union Horse Distilling Co. Rider Vodka
1 oz. (30 ml) El Dorado 3 Year Rum
1 oz. (30 ml) Plymouth Gin
1 oz. (30 ml) Siete Leguas Blanco Tequila
1 oz. (30 ml) Luxardo Triplum Triple Sec
1 oz. (30 ml) lemon juice
1/2 oz. (15 ml) rich Demerara syrup (2:1)
top with Coca-Cola
lemon wheel for garnish
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The Long Island: One of The Most popular cocktails in History!
Note on this video: I mention that Cointreau is made from a Neutral grain spirit macerated with oranges but that's not totally true, Cointreau is made from a neutral spirit made from Sugar Beets and I knew that, i think I made the flub because I'm usually talking about Whiskey LOL!
The Long Island Iced Tea is the Rodney Dangerfield of cocktails, it don't get no respect! But if you see it for what it really is, you'll see that it's simply a sour template where the main spirit is split into four with a little dry Cointreau to temper the sweet. Now given that we're in a time when cocktails are thought of in a more culinary way and there's a lot of innovation going on it's easy to see why this drink get's lost in the shuffle, it really isn't very balanced and it is a lot of sweet on sweet on sweet. That said, it is somewhat of a guilty pleasure, it is a household name that is called often, will continue to be called in bars today, Highball drinks are back in fashion and therefore worth our consideration. If you are working in a bar today (and really even if you're not) you may as well know how to make a Long Island Iced Tea, and if you're going to learn that, you may as well learn all the major variations too. There are easily another five variations on this drink, using the same template and changing the modifier and the lengthener.
The Long Island came into being the way a lot of cocktails do: A company wanted to sell a product so created a competition for bartenders to push the product. In this case it was Triple Sec and the guy who entered the competition was a bartender named Robert Rosebud Butt who worked at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island, NY around 1972. There is a somewhat similar drink which claims to be the genesis of the Long Island created during Prohibition by a guy known as Old Man Bishop in a community called Long Island in Kingsport Tennessee. The drink is said to have been perfected by Ransom Bishop (Old Man Bishop's Son) and it consisted of various amounts of the major four liquors with the addition of Whiskey and Maple Syrup. I don't have the specs on this one, just the story which seems unlikely as it wouldn't have been created in the 1920's, lay dormant for 50 years then all of a sudden spike in popularity. But I guess it could have provided inspiration to Mr. Butt if he;'d known about it. All of this is just conjecture, there's really no way to know!
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Light Rum
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Vodka
Gin
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Cranberry Juice
Lemon Juice
Simple Syrup
Triple Sec or Cointreau
Mexican Coke
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Here's The Specs:
Long Island Iced Tea:
.5oz (15ml) White Rum
.5oz (15ml) Vodka
.5oz (15ml) Tequila
.5oz (15ml) Gin
.5oz (15ml) Cointreau
.75oz (22.5ml) Lemon Juice
.75oz (22.5ml) Simple Syrup
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