Long Island Iced Tea


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Iced_Tea
A Long Island Iced Tea is a type of mixed drink made with, among other ingredients, vodka, gin, tequila, and rum. A popular version mixes equal parts vodka, gin, tequila, rum, and triple sec with 1½ parts sour mix and a splash of cola. Most variants use equal parts of the main liquors but include a smaller amount of triple sec (or other orange-flavored liqueur). Close variants often replace the sour mix with lemon juice, replace the cola with actualiced tea, or add white crème de menthe; however, most variants do not include any tea, despite the name of the drink. Some restaurants substitutebrandy for the tequila.
The drink has a much higher alcohol concentration (about 22 percent) than most highball drinks due to the several liquors and the relatively small amount of mixer. Long islands can be ordered "extra long", which further increases the alcohol to mixer ratio.
Outside the United States, this highball is often altered, due to the unpopularity of sour mix. Long Island Iced Tea served outside the US is often made of liquors and cola alone (without sour mix), with lemon or lime juice, orange juice or with lime cordial.

Origin

There is some dispute as to the origin of the Long Island Iced Tea. However, numerous sources attribute the origin to one or both of two inventors in the 1970s or 1920s.
Robert "Rosebud" Butt claims to have invented the drink as an entry in a contest to create a new mixed drink including Triple Sec, in 1972 while he worked at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island, NY.[1][2] Various local New York references echo Butt's claims.[3] Local rumors also ascribe the origin to either Butt or another bartender at the Oak Beach Inn, Chris Bendicksen.[4]
Alternatively, a slightly different drink is claimed to have been invented in the 1920s during Prohibition, by an "Old Man Bishop" in a local community named Long Island in Kingsport, Tennessee.[5][6] The drink was then perfected by Ransom Bishop, "Old Man Bishop"'s son. This drink includedwhiskey and maple syrup, and varied quantities of the 5 liquors, rather than the modern one with cola and 4 equal portions of the 4 liquors.

[edit]Adios Motherfucker

A variation of the Long Island Iced Tea called an Adios Motherfucker replaces triple sec with Curaçao and cola with lemon-lime, along with amaraschino cherry as garnish.[7][8]

[edit]Mongolian Motherfucker

A variation of the Long Island Iced Tea called a Mongolian Motherfucker replaces the dash of cola with Curaçao, invented in the summer of 2002 by by Gavin Mannion, Brian Sammon, Paddy Moroney, and Conor Gantley, a group of young Irish students living in South Boston, as a way of achieving a palatable cocktail without the use of a non alcoholic mixer, and is deemed to be the original and most potent version of the drink, preceding contemporary twists and versions. Contemporary twists include the use of grenadine syrup, sloe gin, and Black Raspberry Liqueur


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