The Long Island Iced Tea is the cocktail university students pretend to know how to drink.
Why you are pouring this tonight
The Long Island Iced Tea is the cocktail university students pretend to know how to drink. The real version, made well, is actually a respectable highball, five spirits split into moderate measures, citrus, sugar, soda, and the smallest splash of cola for colour.
It tastes like nothing and everything at once. Drink one, drive nothing.
What to pour it alongside
Bar food. Wings, sliders, fries with aioli. This is not a sit-down-dinner cocktail.
Notes
The cola is a colour cue, not a mixer. If you’ve added more than 60mL of cola, you’ve made a sweet mess. The drink is a sour with multiple spirits, not a cola highball.
The recipe
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