I present you something that will knock you off your feet quickly and exquisitely: Long Island Iced Tea (does not translate). There is only one disadvantage in it: to make it, you need to collect a large collection of alcohol. But if you suddenly have rum, tequila, vodka, orange liqueur and gin in your fridge at the same time, then you can start mixing.
Personally, I said to myself once: You have to do it. It happened after I heard Boots Riley’s track Long Island Iced Tea, Neat. That short two-minute composition captured me somewhat, and I was hung up on the thought that it was my duty to try a cocktail that deserved such music, and from that moment on, I gradually, methodically, got everything I needed. So…
Recipe:
3 parts tequila
3 parts vodka
3 parts of rum
3 parts of orange liqueur
3 parts of gin
5 parts lemon juice
6 parts of simple gum arabic syrup
1 part cola
Pour all the ingredients into a tall, narrow glass with or without ice, to choose from. Mix it up.
My notes:
What can I say? He takes it out. You pour a little bit of everything, and suddenly you get a quarter liter. A fortress at 25 degrees.
I used gum arabic syrup, because there was a lot of writing on the Internet about how gum arabic magically smoothes alcohol. And you know what? They didn’t lie. If you use gum arabic syrup, then the cocktail turns out to be so soft that even without adding ice, you can still drink it in one gulp. If you use gum arabic-free syrup, then perhaps you will need ice.
Cola is generally optional. It, in fact, exists in the composition as a dye.
Rum is recommended to use light rum. The devil knows. I used aged because it tastes sweeter and stronger. By the way, I poured 55 percent tequila. In general, I advise you to use something that is stronger.
The taste of the whole thing, it’s worth noting, is not as much of a hodgepodge as it might seem. I used a heavily herbal gin, so its notes in the cocktail felt extremely good. I also clearly felt the rum. The orange liqueur was definitely drowned out by lemon juice. Honestly, I’m not sure about tequila. Sometimes it seemed to me that she appeared somewhere among the taste of gin. But overall, I really liked it. I thought there would be something vague, but it turned out very well and balanced.
Drink to your heart’s content.
