Long drink

A classic long drink: the gin and tonic

A long drink is a variant of the cocktail with a relatively large volume (from 14 cl, mostly 20-25 cl, in exceptional cases up to a maximum of 30 cl).

Concept and components

By the term long drink but often meant a particularly simple variant of cocktails in the absence of a more appropriate name, consisting of a spirit (2 or 4 cl) and the filler (juice, soda), with which the highball glass or the tumbler (usually 0.2 to 0.3 liter volume) is refilled after adding ice and spirits. These simple long drinks are usually named after the combination of the mixed drinks, e.g. B. Vodka-Lemon ( vodka with bitter lemon ) or Whiskey Cola ( whiskey with Cola ). In some areas these drinks are also called "hat" or "hat".

Classic long drinks are, for example, the gin and tonic or the screwdriver .

See also

• Highball
• Short drink

literature

• Benjamin Ferté, Patrice Millet: Cocktails. L'encyclopédie. Éditions Proxima, Chamalières (France) 2000, ISBN 2-84550-040-8 (French).

Web links

• Short drinks - long drinks - hot drinks on the education server for teacher training in Baden-Württemberg ("Hospitality training days on the topic of bar customers")

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charles Schumann regards 16 cl or more as the necessary volume for long drinks;
   See: Charles Schumann: Schumann's Bar. The artistry of mixing drinks. Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89910-416-5 , p. 267.