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| Long Island Iced Tea |
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Long drink (collins) glass |
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Lemon wedge squeezed over drink and dropped in |
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Shake all ingredients except cola with ice, strain over fresh ice and top with cola
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BOLS Gin |
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8 |
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BOLS Vodka |
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8 |
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BOLS Triple Sec |
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8 |
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Silver tequila |
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Light rum |
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30 |
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Freshly squeezed lemon juice |
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Top with |
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Cola |
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15 |
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Rich sugar syrup (2 parts sugar:1 part water) |
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Attributed to Robert Butt. This is the most popular version of this renowned get-you-legless-drunk cocktail: the five white spirits, sweet and sour and cola. As with many tutti-frutti cocktails that grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, the Long Island was designed to taste innocent - like iced tea, in fact. One way to achieve this is to add the cola to the other ingredients in the shaker and (very carefully) shake all together: the shaking "flattens" the cola's effervescence, making it sweeter and more like iced tea.
Using tequila in a Long Island actually turns it into a Texas Tea, and the strong taste of tequila means that it will never taste like iced tea. If you want an authentically iced-tea tasting cocktail, skip the tequila.
Variations: Top with cranberry juice instead of cola to make a Long Beach Iced Tea, orange juice instead of cola for a California Iced Tea, or grapefruit juice instead of cola for a Florida Iced Tea.
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| added on: November 9, 1999 |
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