ONLINE DEMONSTRATION OF LONG ISLAND ICE TEAS AT SOHM

Today's cocktail making session was based on Long Island- Ice Teas (LIIT). The session started with introduction and history of LIIT's followed by cocktail making demonstration. The cocktails covered today were Long Island Iced Tea - Original Recipe and Long Beach Iced Tea.

Robert "Rosebud" Butt claims to have invented the Long Island iced tea with triple sec in 1972 while he worked at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island, New York. Another historical evidence claims the drink have been invented in the 1920s during Prohibition in the United States by an "Old Man Bishop" in a local community named Long Island in Kingsport, Tennessee. The drink was then perfected by Ransom Bishop, Old Man Bishop's son. This drink included whiskey and maple syrup, and varied quantities of the five liquors, rather than the modern one with cola and five equal portions of the five liquors.