Long Island Iced Tea
The biggest, baddest, tastiest Long Island you’ve ever seen. Served with glasses for four.
There are two competing stories for the creation of this drink. The most widely known is that the drink was created by Robert “Rosebud” Butt in the early 1970’s at the Oak Beach Inn, Hampton Bay, Long Island. That’s Long Island New York. The other story, with less evidence or proof, is that the drink was created in the 1920’s by “Old Man” Bishop, who passed the recipe on to his son Ransom Bishop, a prohibition bootlegger who produced high quality illegal distillate in, yep, Long Island. Long Island Tennessee that is. Whatever the truth between the two, the recipe is almost identical, with Mr. Bishop preferring soda to cola, and a drop of maple syrup, but otherwise the same. Of course, during prohibition, there would not have been the range of spirits available to make this drink at all…
Either way, a remarkably delicious way to enjoy five spirits mixed with a splash of fresh lemon, a squeeze of orange, and a dash of coke.
