Long Island Iced Tea

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Long Island Iced Tea

The Long Island Iced Tea (also: Long Island Ice Tea ) is a widely used cocktail based on several high-proof spirits . Although its name implies this, it does not contain tea , but looks because of the contained Cola as iced tea (Engl. Iced tea ) from. The drink is one of the long drinks .

preparation

The five "white" (clear) spirits rum , vodka , gin , tequila and Triple Sec Curacao are usually in equal proportions, with lemon - or lime juice and sugar syrup in a large, with ice cubes filled long drink or fancy glass given with Coke topped up and stirred. It is often garnished with a lemon wedge. In the German-language standard work Cocktailian , the Long Island Ice Tea consists of 2 cl of the mentioned spirits and 3 cl of lime juice; no sugar syrup is used. These ingredients are shaken with ice cubes in the shaker, then strained onto fresh ice cubes in a highball glass (large beaker) and poured over with cola.

Since different basic spirits are combined with each other and also mixed with liqueur, citrus juices and cola, their typical taste in Long Island Iced Tea can hardly be tasted and the high alcohol content is masked. This makes the drink popular at parties and in trendy gastronomy, especially since it can be made with simple quality spirits and in a short time. In specialist circles and by professional bartenders , mixtures of certain or too many different basic spirits are often rejected, so that the Long Island Iced Tea does not even appear in some bar books. The International Bartenders Association , however, has the drink in their list of Official IBA Cocktails .

history

There are numerous legends about the origin of the cocktail. It is said to have originated at the time of alcohol prohibition in the USA (1919–1932), as its appearance and name concealed its quite considerable alcohol content . According to other versions, it is said to have been invented by a rich, bored housewife on Long Island in the US state of New York . When she secretly reached into the house bar, she only removed a small amount from each bottle, as her husband should not have noticed. As a disguise, she had topped up the drink with cola. There is also talk of students who used small amounts from their parents' bottles.

In fact, Long Island Iced Tea didn't appear until the late 1970s. His invention is often attributed to Robert C. Butt ("Rosebud"), bartender at OBI (Oak Beach Inn) in Hampton Bays, Suffolk County, New York . Dale DeGroff reports, however, of young bartenders at Leonard’s in Great Neck, Long Island (New York), who allegedly invented the mixture earlier - between 1976 and 1979 - because they had found that younger guests in wedding parties were the ones from the older ones Colleagues did not like prepared whiskey sours . They would have served the drinks in large mugs under the name Leonard's Iced Tea .

What is certain is that the drink originated in the USA, where iced tea is usually written as iced tea (literally "iced tea") and not ice tea . In Germany, however, ice tea can often be read in cocktail books and on bar menus .

variants

The variants for the Long Island Iced Tea are numerous. Not all spirits are always included; instead of real citrus juices and sugar syrup, citrus liqueurs or lemonade ingredients such as lime juice cordial or lemon squash are used or orange juice is added. Some variants have different names. The mixture with whiskey is also known as Texas Tea . At Long Beach Iced Tea will be held Cola Cranberry juice used. With Red Bull instead of Cola you get a Long Island Energy , with champagne instead of Cola you get a Beverly Hills Iced Tea .

In “The Essential Cocktail”, DeGroff names the variants Full Monte by Audrey Saunders, which Cointreau replaced with maraschino and cola with champagne and rounded off with Angostura bitters. His London Iced Tea , on the other hand, consists only of gin and rum, dispenses with the orange liqueur, but contains amaretto .

Web links

Commons : Long Island Iced Tea  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
Wikibooks: Long Island Iced Tea  - Study and Teaching Materials

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Dale DeGroff: The Essential Cocktail. The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks. New York, 2008, ISBN 978-0-307-40573-9 , pp. 84f.
  2. Helmut Adam, Jens Hasenbein, Bastian Heuser: Cocktailian. The bar's manual . Tre Torri, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-941641-41-9 , p. 337.
  3. ^ According to Charles Schumann in the foreword to: American Bar. The Artistry of Mixing Drinks . Munich 1991, ISBN 3-89910-006-9 , who accordingly did not include the drink in his standard work of 500 cocktails. Also in Schumann's Bar. (1st edition. Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89910-416-5 ) the author expressly rejects combinations of gin and vodka (p. 263), but still has such a recipe for the Long Island Iced Tea added to the recipe section.
  4. The Long Island Iced Tea is not even mentioned at Uwe Voigt: The great textbook of bar customers. A handy guide for professional bartenders, bar masters, and bar managers. Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-87515-018-6 .
  5. IBA Official Cocktails. In: iba-world.com , accessed January 31, 2012.