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This goes back to my bartending days.
I was bartending at one of my favorite places I've ever worked. It was a reliable pub with a few choice options and a bar that boasted one of the biggest whiskey menus in the state, and a bartender culture that really prides itself on high quality whiskey and cocktail service.
It's a busy weekend evening (pre covid) and things are running smooth until a Long Island gets sent back. Sometimes bartenders biff a drink, it happens to the best. The bar staff there would bend over backwards for any customer who thought their drink was bad. Its personally offenses to think we let a bad drink slip out, it's just the kind of bartenders they have there. And in those occasions we would happily and expeditiously remake the drink, free of charge, so they can get on with their night.
This particular Long Island I made. I know that because I had made it less than 2 minutes before it was sent back and we don't make a lot of those there.
"This isn't strong enough! Did you even put any booze in here!?" "Its not dark enough!"
I was aghast, I probably looked at her with a bewildered and stupid expression on my face but what she was saying was asinine. I don't measure mixed drinks like a Long Island when I make them, I free pour. We also straw taste every drink we serve out of habit, it was fine. I've bartended for years and have very accurate pours. But even so, in the case of the Long (Strong) Island my free pours probably looked a bit more like .6 or .7 than just .5. (For those who don't know a Long Island Ice Tea has five liquors in it, .5oz of each tequila rum vodka gin 3sec for a total of 2.5oz of booze) So this Long Island was already stronger than it was supposed to be. After all that liquor goes in the glass and is displaced by ice there is just enough room for a fair amount of sour mix and a splash of pepsi + garish.
Her condescending and rude tone really rubbed me the wrong way, especially since I made it a touch stronger on purpose so the liquor could stand up to all that mixer. It is served in a pint glass after all.
"Ok" I said "I'll make it 100% by the book."
Then I proceeded to grab my .5 jigger and measure out each liquor. There was considerably less liquid in this glass than the first one before I added the ice and everything else. After a straw taste on this one, tasted like straight sour mix and I loaded it down with Pepsi to make it darker, because that's what you look for I g
... keep reading on reddit ➡S6 Ep7: I’m just dying laughing watching Sheldon experiencing his first Long Island. Gulps it down like nothing, tries to pick a fight with Will, swears by the deliciousness of the tea… then pukes. Oh yes, dear, we have all been there and made the same mistake. Lmao.
Any other “firsts” on this how that is the epitome of everyone’s first?
Anyone work at the Keg? How do you make your Keg sized Long Island Iced Tea's? What ingredients do you use??? Best LIIT out there. thanks.
Most of the place in Pokhara doesn't even follow the actual recipe of LONG ISLAND ICED TEA, a random liquor of choice and their random ratio. Is there any place in Pokhara that serves LIIT at a reasonable price?
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Pretty self-explanatory, would appreciate suggestions on the best Long Island Iced Tea to be found in Canberra. Please and thank you! ^_^
I hear a joke recently on Spotify or Pandora. It was generally about being gay back in the day. It went something like back in ww1 some guy went off to war and met the love of his life only to have to leave him after the war. So the guy comes home and marries some woman he doesn't love to keep up appearances, she invents the long Island iced tea so it appears like she's not drinking since she takes a little from each bottle. She comments something like "when he comes home he beats me cause I'm not jimmy" (or whatever the guys name was). I know this is a mess but im hoping someone knows.
If I wanted to produce a large amount of this delicious beverage, when it calls for a “splash of cola”, how much is a splash? Is there a precise amount?
I haven't had one in a while, but if memory serves every one I've had has just tasted like slightly weird coke, but I can tell by the time I finish it that it had a lot of alcohol.
Does anyone know the science behind this? I don't understand how the extremely strong alcohol taste can be diluted by adding more alcohol.
Yesterday I had nothing to do, so I decided to go to a casino near where I live. I've never been there before, so I figured I'd give it a try (solo). I had two beers there, and on my way home I stopped at a restaurant for dinner. I went to the bar area and ordered a Long Island Iced Tea, along with my dinner. For those that don't know, it's a drink that is basically a whole bunch of different liquors mixed together, along with some juices. It was $5 so I figured it wouldn't be that strong. I drank it all, then my food came, and I ordered another one. Halfway through my meal I started feeling a bit weasy and could tell I was about to vomit. So I went to the bathroom, and of course there was only one stall, and someone waiting for it already. So I figured the sink was the next best option (looking back I should have gone with the trash I think). So I do my business, and of course the sink gets clogged. It was a double sink, now clogged with my puke, so I tried to drain it, but that just added water on top if it all. The person who was in the stall either heard me, or finished his business, got out and saw the puke and ran out of there, obviously without washing his hands. So I cleaned myself up, left the bathroom, and told an employee he should send someone to the bathroom to clean up the sink.... he of course wants to know what happened, so I told him and was really apologetic. I went to the bar, asked for my food to go and paid the bill. I left a generous tip. $26 total bill with a $14 tip (53%) and ran out of there.
Woke up today and I feel REALLY embarrassed about all of this. I know this isn't the craziest story out there, but I feel really ashamed right now. I won't be going back to that restaurant. I don't think there's anything I could have done in that situation, other than choosing the trash vs the sink. I know it's out of my control, but I feel so embarrassed right now.
TL;DR: Had a few beers, ordered a Long Island Iced tea, and puked in the restaurant sink, clogging it up
We know it sounds dumb but bear with us here. So we're back with drink experimenting and one that was recommended to us was a long island iced tea. Before we attempt to make it ourselves, could anyone tell us what it tastes like exactly? Like can you taste the liquor inside? Or does it taste like a standard iced tea? Reason being is that some of us have the habit of drinking too quickly if there isn't a strong taste to stop them.
My fiancé and I just got our Bartesian a few days ago. In the beginning we were having trouble getting our Bartesian to remain closed during mixing, it would just pop open halfway through and we wasted a 2 pods cause of this 😭
My question is, anyone have any recommendations for tequila for the Long Island ice tea pod? Right now we’re using a cheap tequila but every time we make the LI iced tea, it tastes strongly of just tequila and nothing like a LI Iced tea. We’re not really liquor experts so maybe it’s just the type of tequila we got?
