A Long Island Iced Tea is a highball made with, among other ingredients, vodka, gin, tequila, and rum. A popular version mixes equal parts vodka, gin, tequila, rum and triple sec with 1 1/2 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 liquor). Close variants often replace the sour mix with sweet and sour mix or with lemon juice, the cola with actual iced tea, or add white creme de menthe; however, most variants do not include any tea, despite the name of the drink. Some restaurants substitute brandy for the tequila. A true long island as it was originally made did not have tequila.

The drink has a much higher alcohol concentration (≈28%) than most highballs because of the proportionally small amount of mixer. Long islands can be ordered “extra long” which signals the bartender to even further increase the alcohol to mixer ratio.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cl (0.51 fluid onces) (three parts) Vodka
• 1.5 cl (0.51 fluid onces) (three parts) Tequila
• 1.5 cl (0.51 fluid onces) (three parts) White Rum
• 1.5 cl (0.51 fluid onces) (three parts) Triple Sec
• 1.5 cl (0.51 fluid onces) (three parts) Gin
• 2.5 cl (0.85 fluid onces) (five parts) Lemon juice
• 3.0 cl (1.01 fluid onces) (six parts) Gomme Syrup
• Splash of Coke

Preparation:

• Mix ingredients in glass over ice, stir, garnish and serve.

There are various theories as to the origin of the drink. One theory has the drink being named after, or even invented by, the infamous gambler Bald Jack Rose. Albert Stevens Crockett (Old Waldorf Bar Days, 1931) states that it is named after the pink “Jacquemot” (also known as Jacqueminot or Jacque) rose. It has also been posited that the Jack Rose was invented by Joseph P. Rose, a Newark, New Jersey restaurateur, and named by him “in honor” of a defendant in a trial then being held at the courthouse in that city. (Joseph P. Rose once held the title of “World’s Champion Mixologist.”) However, the most likely explanation of the name is the fact that it is made with applejack and is rose colored from the grenadine.

Ingredients:

• Brandy
• Standard garnish cherry
• Apple slice
• Standard drinkware Cocktail glass
• Applejack
• Lemon or lime juice
• Grenadine
• 3  parts applejack
• 2  parts lemon or lime juice
• 2  dashes grenadine
  

Preparation:

Traditionally shaken into a chilled glass, garnished, and served straight up without ice.