Summer cocktails emphasize refreshment, featuring bright flavors, citrus, and summer fruits to cool without feeling heavy. Typical summer formats include spritzes, sours, and smashes rather than rich, velvety drinks like espresso martinis. A quintessential problematic example is the Long Island iced tea, which blends vodka, tequila, rum, triple sec, gin, simple syrup, and cola over ice with a lemon slice. The Long Island’s combination of four different liquors produces a potent, often cloyingly sweet drink that can taste like sweetened hand sanitizer and carries a reputation tied to rowdy patrons since its 1980s popularity.
A Long Island iced tea order will send a chill down the spine of even the most stoic bartender. It isn't that it's hard to make - it's that the people who drink it have a dire reputation. The drink reached its peak in popularity in the 1980s and has been associated with rowdy patrons ever since. This cocktail calls for vodka, tequila, rum, triple sec, gin, simple syrup, and cola with some ice and a lemon slice.
Combined, you have a drink that looks like iced tea, yet often tastes like sweetened hand sanitizer. Long Island iced tea contains not one but four different types of liquor, after all, resulting in a drink so powerful that you'll be drunk before you can do an inventory of the ingredients. Even if you sip it slowly, you're unlikely to be able to a
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