Cocktail "Long Island"

A multicomponent cocktail "Long Island Iced Tea" has its own history and legend. By the main version, this cocktail was prepared in the USA. It does not include tea, but an externally cocktail resembles ice tea.

Any cocktail, like any dish, has both the original recipe and its variations. Initially used 20 ml of vodka, gin, orange juice, light roma, 10 ml of a liquor with an orange aroma, as well as a small amount of Coca-Cola. Over time, the recipe has repeatedly changed.

All "Long Island" components are easily mixed, so it is not necessary to buy a special shaker, a blender or a glass for mixing for its cooking. He is prepared and served in a glass, for example, toggle, Haybollah, Collins. Perhaps only to prepare ice cubes, lemon slices and straw.

Any alcoholic cocktail is mainly prepared on the basis of any type of alcoholic beverages. Long-Island is based on several components. These are: Tequila, white rum, gin, vodka, liquor with an aroma of orange, non-alcoholic drink Coca-Cola, ice. Sometimes added sugar syrup or orange juice.

To prepare a Long Island cocktail:

fill a high glass of ice cubes (150-200 g);
pour alternately in 20 ml of vodka, gin, white rum, tequila and liquor;
add Coca-Cola (up to 80 ml) almost to the top, so that the fragrance of the cocktail is not strongly scattered;
slightly stirrate the straw or cocktail spoon;
if desired, squeeze the juice of the lemon slices;
decorate a glass of lemon slicker;
put the straw.

If the proportions of all components are a bit change, then you can get a new taste. Largely popular is a slightly modified cocktail "Long Island", which adds raspberry vodka. An interesting blue cocktail can be obtained if you use a Liquor Blue Curaçao instead of a liquor with an orange aroma, as well as add lemon soda to a cocktail.