Long Island Iced Tea

Day 176

Long Island Iced Tea

5 shots out of 5

We have another birthday today!  One of my dearest friends Angela is having a birthday today! I promised her that I'd make her favorite cocktail on her birthday, so here it is!  I hope you are having one.....or three of them tonight as well!  I also want to Thank Stacey for giving me tonight's recipe!  Thank you from The Cocktail Lady and Angela!!

I gave tonight's cocktail 5 shots out of 5.  I have been pretty darn SCARED about this cocktail for a couple months now.  This cocktail usually goes against ALL that I think I like in a cocktail.  We're talking 5, YES 5 liquors, 1 liqueur and then some sweet & sour mix and a little bit of coke.  WHAT?!?!  I braved it and pulled out all of my bottles, mixed it up.......took a deep breath.....stared at it for a few seconds.....and went for it!  WOW, I was surprised to REALLY like it!  It has no fruity, sweet taste to it (like I normally love), but the mixture of all of these alcohols along with the remaining ingredients.....very good!  I will admit that before I started this blog I absolutely did think that there was Iced Tea in this cocktail (which I'm not a big fan of at all).....glad I was wrong!

Here is the recipe for a Long Island Iced Tea:

• 1/2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz light tequila (by light I mean clear)
• 1/2 oz light rum (by light I mean clear...again)
• 1/2 oz gin
• 1/2 oz triple sec
• 3/4 oz sweet & sour mix
• 1 oz coke (coke, coke zero, diet coke.....even lime flavored coke I think would taste good)

In a shaker fill 3/4 with ice and add all of the ingredients above EXCEPT the coke.  Give it a good "brisk" shake and dump it all into a tall glass.  Pour your coke on top and give it a quick stir.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Happy Birthday to you Ang!  I love you and hope your day is as wonderful as you are!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady