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As a 21 year veteran fireman from a university town PENN STATE {one of, if not the, top party schools in the USA}. . . I LOVE the Long Island Ice Tea. My favorite way to drink it? by the pitcher! My record was 3 pitchers. And I still walked home upright. And my I say from the states, It's hard to tell which is more lovely, your eyes, hair, or that wonderful Irish accent.
I think most bars are watering down the drink when it’s ordered to prevent a drunken 🥴 patron and to boost sales. Some of the more upscale and corporate bars in my area are not allowed to serve the drink because management won’t permit them to serve it.
With the extraordinarily fetching way she pronounces "r," she could record herself saying "I'm tired of being sober" and sell it for messaging. Maybe also a phrase with the word "liver."
With the extraordinarily fetching way she pronounces "r," she could record herself saying "I'm tired of being sober" and sell it for messaging. Maybe also a phrase with the word "liver."
The bartender that taught me to make these many years ago, had me put a splash of real iced tea in at the end. Youe smell the tea and taste it with the first sip. Great drink.
Please share. Are you using 0.75 oz of each liquor, sour mix in place of the simple syrup, how much cola/tea?? Would like to add it to my recipe site where I have cocktail recipes as well as a home bar supply store. This is one of the versions I have on the recipe side of my site: homebarandmore.com/long-island-iced-tea-version-1/
My brother worked at a restaurant, and for my 21st birthday I drank two "real" long island ice teas. Successfully walking to the bathroom was one of the great accomplishments of my life.
It's reading (and hearing IRL) comments like these that remind me that I many not have learned drinking with the most functional people. I've started the evening off with 2-3 Long Islands, or double vodka rocks. It's not a boast, just a reinforcement of my first sentence.
I got this drink(LIIT) as challenge and now my favourite since a decade. Got whole set at home to make as I wish... However, regular dark-Rum drinker. You have pointed out perfectly, this is indeed most dangerous thing, it doesn't feel like alcohol..!!! Additional caution, don't go in breeze, it just makes you float...!!!😎
@@ChrisJ144 Suddenly all the booze runs to your feet, the blood rushes to your head, and you're just trying to navigate barstool to bathroom! LMAO! When mixed properly, it's an amazing......experience? 😆😆😆
@@jessicadavenport2808 Exactly. I was ‘introduced’ to this drink while in a hotel on business with colleagues. I had no idea what went into it. I had three before I needed to get up. I got up okay but my legs said ‘hang on there’ when I tried to move. 🙄
I was a bartender in a chain restaurant for 20 years. My favorite version of the classic Long Island Iced Tea is called a Tokyo Tea. Triple Sec, vodka, gin, white rum, and Midori, one shot each. Shake together. Add Sprite or 7-up to fill (We used a schooner). NO cola. Lime for garnish. Enjoy, but it really sneaks up on you. 😁
The Rusty Pelican, Miami, 1986: We sat at the bar, mid afternoon, pretty early in the day. My older friends ordered LI iced tea, so I ordered my first. Didn't taste any booze, so ordered my second. Then third. Then it was time to leave, and I stood up and promptly collapsed. They had to drag my 6'3" 200 lb. corpse by the ankles out to the car. All I remember after #3 is waking up in my dorm the next day.
LMAO. My first was after I tasted one that a friend bought and thought that aint shit. You could get it by the glass or the pitcher. Well showoff that I am, despite my friends telling me not to do it, I ordered the pitcher with a single glass. I proceeded to power my way through that. Then I decided all that liwuid just has to be pissed out. I don't know if i ever made it to the restroom but I do know I did wake up in my hotel room the next day.
Ok, LI IT story. In the early 90's, when I was in my early 20's, my going out budget was only $25 a night. $5 for the door (at Zelo's in Santa Barbara, CA), and LIIT's were $9, with a buck tip! 2 drinks, then I would hit the dance floor till closing. Lovely video, and a trip down memory lane!
About what seems a thousand years ago, I used to make these in a small bar in New Orleans, putting them in a small beer pitcher and charging a rather low price. For some reason, my tips were great.
@@no2all oh mine already has been stamped by Vlasic pickles but I'll take the 5th anyways. But I'm gonna need to put something on that before I go home. Y'all serve shrimp po'boys?
I preferred the term vertically napping. 😆😆😆 I associate Quantum Leaping with the intermittent black out. You know the ones where it's like a really badly edited movie. You remember like 30 seconds out of an hour. 😆😆😆
Lol, worked at a restaurant with a bar. Had the opposite experience, bar tender mixed them strong. First one I had "right" I was amazed how good it tasted. Just a big ol' glass of clear alcohol. Great vid, more please
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There are some cool variations of the long island. My favorite is the bullfrog. White Rum, regular vodka, Tequila Blanco, Gin and Blue Curacao. Put all together with fresh lime juice. and top with red bull until it goes a nice green color. The lime juice takes the edge off the red bull and it's just tasty.
Long Island is my go-to drink. It is the real test of a good bar or bartender. Here in the US, bars take short cuts. They do not use simple syrup and lime , but instead use a generic sour mixer, so they mostly taste the same. The BEST one I ever drank had a secret ingredient that took me a long time to figure out - grapefruit juice. A splash or more grapefruit juice adds so much complexity to the taste.
I wasn't sure at first about your recipe but I see it definitely working. I made one for my dad once. I quickly made a sweet and sour mix (boiling equal parts water, sugar, and lemon juice), and it blew his mind. I also do 1oz of each spirit.
One of my favorite cocktails ... usually one is enough. I don't handle the next day so easy at my age. I was introduced to Singapore Slings while on R&R there more years ago than I care to think. That's another one that's dangerous and I do have a story or two about a friends introduction to them. Congrats on the 100K+ subscribers .. AWESOME! Keep up the great work.
Good to see you trying the L.I.I.T. It is one of my favourite drinks. The recipe here in Australia more commonly uses standard vodka rather than vanilla. Also the juice normally used is lemon rather than lime and is an equal portion to the boozy components. The one thing that confuses me is the inclusion of the Simple Syrup. I have had these at more than a dozen different establishments and none of them have included sugar syrup, the Cointreau and the Coke/cola seem to be enough sweetness. After five Long Islands in an evening I decided to “walk” from the bar/restaurant to Sydney Central Railway station, about a mile and a half through some of Sydney’s least friendly streets at 3am on a Saturday morning. When I woke up in the morning I was the proud owner of a very nice knife that I hadn’t seen before and can’t remember where it came from.
I watched this with a stupid grin on my face. Ciara is such a beautiful person, inside and out, she just radiates effortless charm and poise. Thank you for doing what you do Ciara! Made my day.
To be fair, it's 5x3/4 oz of (about) 40% alcohol, so 15/4 oz, so almost 4 oz. That's bigger than a double but not quite a triple. One wouldn't be bad, two drunk SLOWLY would be about the limit. The danger is in slamming them back.
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I am a huge fan of a variation of this that I have heard called an Italian Iced Tea where you replace the orange liqueur/Triple sec with Amaretto, and is great.
Greetings from America🇺🇲 Saw you first on the TRY Channel, which was fantastic fun. Didn't know you had your own series; great video. One can never go wrong with the iconic Long Island. Love the video, Love Irish accent, and the perfect hostess. Looking forward to more of the same in the near future... Cheers!
There is a great variation on this called an Alaskan iced thee it replaces the triple sec with blue curacao and the cola with sprite to make it a super pretty icy blue and with a great lime soda taste.
Cheapo "dinner cruise" in the San Diego area, got into a LIT drinking contest with a friend. I was 6'4"/200lbs, he was more average sized. Did not end well for him. I had 4 or 5, was the most wasted I've ever been. Still didn't throw up, but the bed was sure spinning when I crashed in the hotel room. Still drink them occasionally to this day 30+ years later...
Mine starts with, "So I went campin' with a buddy and the first thing we did after we set up the tent was crack open some tgif iced teas, kid, the rest of the night was a blur. I remember a campfire..."
This was the first cocktail I drank. I loved it so much I ordered multiple. I would like to thank my friend who picked me up off the floor when and I landed on my butt! Also for getting me home and to bed that night. Lesson learned. Still my favorite cocktail!
@@samiam619 yep. They were in pint glasses. My favorites were, it was sinful, made by a 19 yr old. Not old enough to drink, but she made the best LIIT. Little heavy on the lemon. 5 would do me just right, 7 would make walking the 5 blocks home in heels tricky. But in those days, no problems. Get up at 6 or 7, go to work, do it all again. These days, a second glass of wine means someone else should drive home
A lot of bars use the premixed liquor so that is why theirs might not have been as strong. Most I’ve seen, they use the bar lime mix (the stuff that looks like kool-aid) as it waters it down some more and gives it more colour.
When I was in high school in the early '80s we'd go to the Fort Lauderdale strip in Florida on Wednesday night's which was called nickel night , any shot of house brand liquor was five cents so I would get four Long Island Iced Tea's for one dollar !
Congratulations on hitting 100k+ subscribers. As always, you handled the pressure of online bartending seamlessly. Rather than simple syrup, I go with fresh squeezed lemon-ade as my sweet & tart mixer. I also always shake my Long Islands as well. Slainte
You do it so well. When I was young, 80s, my buddy Dan and I would go on surf trips and mix LIIT’s in gallon jugs in the back of his BMW Trunk. What was left over from the weekend we would stash in the refrigerator at work and sip on it for the next week. Oh those were the day’s.
oh! btw, When you said we can use Cointreau or triple sec, just to clarify - Cointreau IS a triple sec, triple sec is a type of liqueur, Cointreau (among others) is a brand of triple sec liqueur
@@growmiegreenthumb8025 yes but they are not necessarily interchangeable in cocktail as it is amber in color and not clear, so the end cocktail will look different
Growmie Greenthumb very different though, I think most if not all triple secs are based in a neutral spirit, while grand marnier is cognac based. Not saying you can’t use it here, just that it's not quite a “top shelf triple sec”. Actually some bartenders recommend using grand marnier because it’s more complex and deep, so it's still a very good idea.
I’m a bartender here in the states, and the way I was taught doesn’t use lime juice or syrup. I use just under an ounce of each and use the cola at the end. You can use lemon juice at the end as a splash but just a splash for the ice tea with lemon.
I would definitely do equal parts everything not just the liquors, also lemon juice rounds out the drink way more than lime juice imo. That's how I make mine and my AMF's as well and have never gotten a complaint that they taste too strong. Great video! Subbed!
@@maggyxchuu try simple syrup that’s two parts sugar for every one part water as well if you like your drinks on the sweeter side, it also has a way longer shelf life this way too :)
I love drinks that taste different than you would expect, the Long Island included. My all time favorite is a shot of bar magic called Chocolate Cake. It’s equal parts hazelnut liquor and vodka. Coat a lemon wedge with sugar, suck the lemon and keep the juice in your mouth, shoot the shot. It really does taste exactly like chocolate cake. I bartended in New Orleans for a few years in my 20’s and that one was always a crowd pleaser. Vanilla vodka works perfectly with it. Love your videos!
I worked at the Oak Beach Inn summers, starting out as a bar boy and working my way up to doorman and then bartender. One of the best party places, Sundays were crazy on the dock, unfortunately closed years ago.
A woman with that wonderful accent you can listen to all day even if she recites the phonebook that can drink you under the table (I know I can't hold my liquor sadly) is a deadly combination.
Oak Beach Inn was a staple of long Island back in the 80s and 90s. If you lived in Suffolk County back them you had to have gone to at least one of them. I got to go to two of them when I was younger and had some great stories. Lol
i put lemon juice along with a double serving of simple syrup or make some homemade sweet and sour and put 2:1 of the other 5 spirits and put a good ounce or 2 of cola
Haha. College drinking establishment, circa 1994, had "quad-night". 4 x the alcohol for the normal price. LIIT came in a big glass. Two and you were DONE.
LIIT is my favourite cocktail. I remember staying at a hotel for a work conference once, and wanted one. The bar only sold spirits by the double measure - so I ended up with 10 measures in a pint glass, and with all the ice, there wasnt much room for the cola... I remember being told the next day I got totally hammered that night!
The recipe most of the really cheap bars here in the Midwest use a bottle of pre-mixed Triple Sec, Tequila, Vodka, Gin, and White Rum. They then mix that with an equal part of Sweet & Sour Mix (essentially just very very strong lemonade). They then top it off with a bit of Coke, just like you did. The nicer bars make it like how you make it (but without vanilla in the vodka), but they still add about a shot of sweet and sour mix to dilute it. I think it really helps balance it out.
My first Long island was in Memphis Tennessee, the bar served them in buckets with straws. Yes, buckets. Two straws, but no one used the second straw. I'm also surprised I still have a functioning liver.
I find that having one with a little more citrus juice in it reeeeeeeeeally covers up the alcohol. The more lemon, the more dangerous in my experience.
The only cocktail I’ve had that is boozier is the Black Orchid, a signature drink from a private goth club. Not sure what’s in it but it tastes a lot like a grape soda and knocks you on your butt.
One night at a local bar the last thing I remember the bartender say was "you better be careful when you drink these". She was not wrong. But they taste so good.
That is a great drink! I love your choices. When you shake it next time... Don't worry about moving your arms around. Hold it over your shoulder and shake from the elbow vigorously until the entire shaker is "COLD". Then serve over the ice. The shaking unlocks different tones of flavor when you do it that way and it won't melt the ice in the shaker.
Yet again I'll ask... can we get a Try Channel video of Ciara making her favorite cocktails for the rest of the group? I'd like to see how others like those.
When I was on a cruise with my friend's they decided to non-stop long islands for a whole day. I dont remember that day! Also for an absinthe drink they had the "quick fix". I don't know exactly what was in it but basically everything. I just know I got one, woke up 4 hours later in my cabin with my drink still half full on the night stand. What a ride
@@telluricman Depends how you define stronger. The Smuggler's Cove version is a daiquiri with lemon juice and passion fruit syrup scaled up by 2, not really stronger, just more. Their Zombie on the other hand is 4 ounces of rum, 1 of which being overproof, against just 1 3/4 ounce, 1 teaspoon and 2 dashes of mixers, and those dashes are Angostura bitters and absinthe, both over 40%, while 1/2 ounce is falernum, also about 11%. However you define stronger, the Zombie certainly is.
@@CiaraODoherty suggestion: I’ve always seen them made with a dash of sweet and sour rather than lime juice. Done right, this drink really tricks into tasting like a lemony ice tea!
I love Long Islands! I ordered one recently and it didn’t have any coke in it. It was so nasty that I actually sent it back and got a margarita, my second go-to drink. It’s a amazing how that one non-alcoholic ingredient changes the flavor completely.
Oh no, you don't get off that easy...finish the drink! LIIT is my goto as a before dinner drink. Just one and I can still drive home. Yes, an iconic American mixed drink. Great video!
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This is the version I have on my site for the Long Island Iced Tea: homebarandmore.com/long-island-iced-tea-version-1/
As a 21 year veteran fireman from a university town PENN STATE {one of, if not the, top party schools in the USA}. . . I LOVE the Long Island Ice Tea. My favorite way to drink it? by the pitcher! My record was 3 pitchers. And I still walked home upright.
And my I say from the states, It's hard to tell which is more lovely, your eyes, hair, or that wonderful Irish accent.
Oh yeah...the ol' bonus tipsy video ploy ; ) ; )
Not NEARLY enough cola. More will hide the alcohol, but that is what makes it dangerous. Would drink with you anytime, but I live in Vegas, so....
I think most bars are watering down the drink when it’s ordered to prevent a drunken 🥴 patron and to boost sales. Some of the more upscale and corporate bars in my area are not allowed to serve the drink because management won’t permit them to serve it.
Ordering a Long Island is a declaration of “I’m tired of being sober”.
😆
i felt gay ordering one at first. then I felt tough enough to fight anyone who thought so
With the extraordinarily fetching way she pronounces "r," she could record herself saying "I'm tired of being sober" and sell it for messaging. Maybe also a phrase with the word "liver."
With the extraordinarily fetching way she pronounces "r," she could record herself saying "I'm tired of being sober" and sell it for messaging. Maybe also a phrase with the word "liver."
Or a declaration of "I want to get arrested for a DUI" true story lol
The bartender that taught me to make these many years ago, had me put a splash of real iced tea in at the end. Youe smell the tea and taste it with the first sip. Great drink.
Same way I learned to make it.
Please share. Are you using 0.75 oz of each liquor, sour mix in place of the simple syrup, how much cola/tea?? Would like to add it to my recipe site where I have cocktail recipes as well as a home bar supply store.
This is one of the versions I have on the recipe side of my site:
homebarandmore.com/long-island-iced-tea-version-1/
Yes! It's best with real iced tea.
My brother worked at a restaurant, and for my 21st birthday I drank two "real" long island ice teas. Successfully walking to the bathroom was one of the great accomplishments of my life.
It's reading (and hearing IRL) comments like these that remind me that I many not have learned drinking with the most functional people.
I've started the evening off with 2-3 Long Islands, or double vodka rocks.
It's not a boast, just a reinforcement of my first sentence.
Do you have any bar experience?
''no''
Well, whats your background?
''...............I'm Irish''?
your hired!!
We Irish are not alcoholics, we are professionals.
The dangerous thing about LIITs is if you make it right, you taste no alcohol at all.
I got this drink(LIIT) as challenge and now my favourite since a decade. Got whole set at home to make as I wish...
However, regular dark-Rum drinker.
You have pointed out perfectly, this is indeed most dangerous thing, it doesn't feel like alcohol..!!!
Additional caution, don't go in breeze, it just makes you float...!!!😎
Correct ! It’s a weird thing about this drink. You only know you’ve been drinking alcohol when you try to stand up.
Dangerous could be an understatement
@@ChrisJ144 Suddenly all the booze runs to your feet, the blood rushes to your head, and you're just trying to navigate barstool to bathroom! LMAO! When mixed properly, it's an amazing......experience? 😆😆😆
@@jessicadavenport2808 Exactly. I was ‘introduced’ to this drink while in a hotel on business with colleagues. I had no idea what went into it. I had three before I needed to get up. I got up okay but my legs said ‘hang on there’ when I tried to move. 🙄
The reason I came here:
Ciara in every episode of Try: "Oh that's lovely"
Ciara actually reacted to a strong drink!?!?😲 She might be a mortal after all.
But, my life is broken. She can't be a mere mortal!
What am I supposed to believe in now? If I can't believe in her immortal goddess.
@@robertferrick463 A demi-goddess maybe?
It was a surprised look, not an affected look. This girl drinks everclear without making a face.
Plot twist, she had four more then drove to work and worked an 8 hour day without blinking an eye.
have you not seen "Irish people try America's strongest alcohol ?"
she crushes all but the leather jacket guy
Bartender: Here is a Battery acid margarita with a chlorine bleach floater.
Ciara: Oh its such a smooth drink.
The thing I found most interesting about Long Island Ice Tea is how the bar stool gets about eight inches taller with each cocktail.
...and loses a leg.
I was a bartender in a chain restaurant for 20 years. My favorite version of the classic Long Island Iced Tea is called a Tokyo Tea. Triple Sec, vodka, gin, white rum, and Midori, one shot each. Shake together. Add Sprite or 7-up to fill (We used a schooner). NO cola. Lime for garnish. Enjoy, but it really sneaks up on you. 😁
The Rusty Pelican, Miami, 1986: We sat at the bar, mid afternoon, pretty early in the day. My older friends ordered LI iced tea, so I ordered my first. Didn't taste any booze, so ordered my second. Then third. Then it was time to leave, and I stood up and promptly collapsed. They had to drag my 6'3" 200 lb. corpse by the ankles out to the car. All I remember after #3 is waking up in my dorm the next day.
RIP in F
🤣🤣🤣
Good man👍
Since it's an ingredient I think this still applies:
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
LMAO. My first was after I tasted one that a friend bought and thought that aint shit. You could get it by the glass or the pitcher. Well showoff that I am, despite my friends telling me not to do it, I ordered the pitcher with a single glass. I proceeded to power my way through that. Then I decided all that liwuid just has to be pissed out. I don't know if i ever made it to the restroom but I do know I did wake up in my hotel room the next day.
Ok, LI IT story. In the early 90's, when I was in my early 20's, my going out budget was only $25 a night. $5 for the door (at Zelo's in Santa Barbara, CA), and LIIT's were $9, with a buck tip! 2 drinks, then I would hit the dance floor till closing. Lovely video, and a trip down memory lane!
I love long island iced teas! However, I learned the hard way in my 20s just how strong they are!
Ahhhh our misspent youth, yes many evenings with a few teas.
1 at the start of the night for me then switch to something else. Otherwise I'll forget where I put my feet.
@@piltdownman2151 haha, from what I recall/have been told...I had a great time!
I used to drink 5. 7 would really get me going
Me too, I’m 44 and my local Applebee’s had long islands for a dollar before the lockdown.
Love how you give the history of each drink. Always a pleasure to watch.
About what seems a thousand years ago, I used to make these in a small bar in New Orleans, putting them in a small beer pitcher and charging a rather low price. For some reason, my tips were great.
Take me back to that good ol day bar keep! I'll take 4
@@cousinjake7986 We have a special promotion going on. Order five and get a free liver function test.
@@no2all oh mine already has been stamped by Vlasic pickles but I'll take the 5th anyways. But I'm gonna need to put something on that before I go home. Y'all serve shrimp po'boys?
@Erroll Leggo you sound like you could keep up
@@cousinjake7986 Dem po'boys almost as good as da gumbo or red beans & rice.
The Rum should be Bacardi 151. And we called the resulting blackouts 'Quantum Leaping'.
Unfortunately, they don't make Bacardi 151 anymore.
@@johnjorgensen6882 Alas it can still be found and there are other companies that make 151 rum. Also everclear comes in 151.
@@jbizzle9984 Very true!
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I preferred the term vertically napping. 😆😆😆 I associate Quantum Leaping with the intermittent black out. You know the ones where it's like a really badly edited movie. You remember like 30 seconds out of an hour. 😆😆😆
Lol, worked at a restaurant with a bar. Had the opposite experience, bar tender mixed them strong. First one I had "right" I was amazed how good it tasted. Just a big ol' glass of clear alcohol. Great vid, more please
I was today years old when I learned that there's no iced tea in the long Island iced tea.
First of the new Ciara videos I've seen! Legend!!
Summer of 2002. 12 long island iced teas in key west. Woke up the next day with NO hangover. Nailed it.
But were you still in Florida when you woke up?
But also no pants.
Hmmmm ... that’s 50+ shots ??
She should do a colab with Whiskey Tribe if she is ever in the States
DUDE. YES! whiskey tribe is one of my favorite channels! Ciara, Daniel and Rex would be an awesome collaboration!
They could zoom call it.
This!
Can we please find a way to blow this up and make it happen? Found Ciara through the Try channel. Found The Whiskey tribe through loving whiskey. This needs to be a thing.
Or they go back over the pond
There are some cool variations of the long island. My favorite is the bullfrog. White Rum, regular vodka, Tequila Blanco, Gin and Blue Curacao. Put all together with fresh lime juice. and top with red bull until it goes a nice green color. The lime juice takes the edge off the red bull and it's just tasty.
Thus 4-Loco was born :)
Long Island is my go-to drink. It is the real test of a good bar or bartender. Here in the US, bars take short cuts. They do not use simple syrup and lime , but instead use a generic sour mixer, so they mostly taste the same. The BEST one I ever drank had a secret ingredient that took me a long time to figure out - grapefruit juice. A splash or more grapefruit juice adds so much complexity to the taste.
If I could choose anyone in this vast world to go on a pub crawl with, hands down it would be the lovely and fun Ciara!
I wasn't sure at first about your recipe but I see it definitely working. I made one for my dad once. I quickly made a sweet and sour mix (boiling equal parts water, sugar, and lemon juice), and it blew his mind. I also do 1oz of each spirit.
One of my favorite cocktails ... usually one is enough. I don't handle the next day so easy at my age. I was introduced to Singapore Slings while on R&R there more years ago than I care to think. That's another one that's dangerous and I do have a story or two about a friends introduction to them. Congrats on the 100K+ subscribers .. AWESOME! Keep up the great work.
Same.
Singapore slings just seem to disappear quickly. Haven't had one in ages. May need to make one.
Greetings from Long Island, USA. So nice to see the island represented and The OBI mentioned all the way in Ireland!
No vanilla vodka. Just plain vodka and with lemon, not lime. Add a bit more cola. 🥃
Absolutely right.
I was thinking the cola looked weak.
agreed, but a vanilla-coke-ish aftertaste wouldn't be so bad, right?
Honestly, I'm tempted to try this variant now after seeing the vanilla coke comment.
You can skip the cola all together and top with Chambord if you're a fan of raspberry.
Good to see you trying the L.I.I.T. It is one of my favourite drinks. The recipe here in Australia more commonly uses standard vodka rather than vanilla. Also the juice normally used is lemon rather than lime and is an equal portion to the boozy components. The one thing that confuses me is the inclusion of the Simple Syrup. I have had these at more than a dozen different establishments and none of them have included sugar syrup, the Cointreau and the Coke/cola seem to be enough sweetness. After five Long Islands in an evening I decided to “walk” from the bar/restaurant to Sydney Central Railway station, about a mile and a half through some of Sydney’s least friendly streets at 3am on a Saturday morning. When I woke up in the morning I was the proud owner of a very nice knife that I hadn’t seen before and can’t remember where it came from.
If ciara thinks this is strong and makes faces you know it will knock the average person off their feet after 2 sips.
But the whole point is that it's not supposed to taste like alcohol
she didn't put in enough coke and simple syrup. it's equal measures of the rum, triple sec, tequila, gin and coke then double of the simple syrup.
@@SgtSplatter782 not enough room in the glass, usually these either come in a hurricane glass or small carafe.
Yes, I've never seen her make that face before.
Yep, Ciara makes bugeyes = I would perish.
I watched this with a stupid grin on my face. Ciara is such a beautiful person, inside and out, she just radiates effortless charm and poise. Thank you for doing what you do Ciara! Made my day.
Tastes like delicious iced tea, but hits like a massive semi-truck.
Yes! Like an adios mf-er or vesper. Hits hard.
Imo, lit tastes nothing like a traditional tea
It's street name is high octane iced tea. lol
To be fair, it's 5x3/4 oz of (about) 40% alcohol, so 15/4 oz, so almost 4 oz. That's bigger than a double but not quite a triple. One wouldn't be bad, two drunk SLOWLY would be about the limit. The danger is in slamming them back.
This is informative. Never realized how watered down The Long Island Ice Teas I’ve drank in the past but makes sense seeing all the ingredients.
"I can drink battery acid and not make a face" Ciara 2021
Found this channel after watching Try channel It always impressed me the strength of spirits you could drink and not make a face, like holy crap girl my face would be bright red after drinking Some of the stuff you've had. Instant sub
I am a huge fan of a variation of this that I have heard called an Italian Iced Tea where you replace the orange liqueur/Triple sec with Amaretto, and is great.
Ooooh dear. Long island ice teas. I have so many memories of STARTING the night with them...
What happens after went into the pit of o no what did I do????😀
Greetings from America🇺🇲
Saw you first on the TRY Channel, which was fantastic fun. Didn't know you had your own series; great video. One can never go wrong with the iconic Long Island. Love the video, Love Irish accent, and the perfect hostess. Looking forward to more of the same in the near future... Cheers!
me: realizing i have all the ingredients on hand
my liver: *oh no i’m in danger*
nonono, its "haha, im in danger"
Liver: Why is there Boss music suddenly...
mine is waving a white flag, should i be worried ?
Liver: Cirrhosis sense is tingling !
There is a great variation on this called an Alaskan iced thee it replaces the triple sec with blue curacao and the cola with sprite to make it a super pretty icy blue and with a great lime soda taste.
Everyone has a Story about Long Island Tea's and almost always it ends with "And that was the Last Time I had a Long Island Ice Tea"
Yeah, I think that was my 23rd birthday.
All while having a long island iced tea
Cheapo "dinner cruise" in the San Diego area, got into a LIT drinking contest with a friend. I was 6'4"/200lbs, he was more average sized. Did not end well for him. I had 4 or 5, was the most wasted I've ever been. Still didn't throw up, but the bed was sure spinning when I crashed in the hotel room. Still drink them occasionally to this day 30+ years later...
Mine starts with, "So I went campin' with a buddy and the first thing we did after we set up the tent was crack open some tgif iced teas, kid, the rest of the night was a blur. I remember a campfire..."
@@Ogrematic lol sounds about right
The O.B.I.was a LEGEND in itself!
I saw some _amazing_ shows at that venue. 🎸
This was the first cocktail I drank. I loved it so much I ordered multiple. I would like to thank my friend who picked me up off the floor when and I landed on my butt! Also for getting me home and to bed that night. Lesson learned. Still my favorite cocktail!
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5-6 was my limit, back in the day
@@LindaC616 Were you still upright after 3?
@@samiam619 yep. They were in pint glasses. My favorites were, it was sinful, made by a 19 yr old. Not old enough to drink, but she made the best LIIT. Little heavy on the lemon.
5 would do me just right, 7 would make walking the 5 blocks home in heels tricky. But in those days, no problems. Get up at 6 or 7, go to work, do it all again. These days, a second glass of wine means someone else should drive home
A lot of bars use the premixed liquor so that is why theirs might not have been as strong. Most I’ve seen, they use the bar lime mix (the stuff that looks like kool-aid) as it waters it down some more and gives it more colour.
When I was in high school in the early '80s we'd go to the Fort Lauderdale strip in Florida on Wednesday night's which was called nickel night , any shot of house brand liquor was five cents so I would get four Long Island Iced Tea's for one dollar !
A yes the 80's when the drinking age was still 18.
Yes remember Ft Lauderdale on the 80's well as a irish man working and living on the strip, Penrods, Button club etc.etc, great memories...
Congratulations on hitting 100k+ subscribers. As always, you handled the pressure of online bartending seamlessly. Rather than simple syrup, I go with fresh squeezed lemon-ade as my sweet & tart mixer. I also always shake my Long Islands as well. Slainte
She has my vote for Ireland's best treasure.
@bradley hall +1
You do it so well. When I was young, 80s, my buddy Dan and I would go on surf trips and mix LIIT’s in gallon jugs in the back of his BMW Trunk. What was left over from the weekend we would stash in the refrigerator at work and sip on it for the next week. Oh those were the day’s.
oh! btw, When you said we can use Cointreau or triple sec, just to clarify - Cointreau IS a triple sec,
triple sec is a type of liqueur, Cointreau (among others) is a brand of triple sec liqueur
Gran mar would be the top shelf version
@@growmiegreenthumb8025 yes but they are not necessarily interchangeable in cocktail as it is amber in color and not clear, so the end cocktail will look different
Growmie Greenthumb very different though, I think most if not all triple secs are based in a neutral spirit, while grand marnier is cognac based. Not saying you can’t use it here, just that it's not quite a “top shelf triple sec”. Actually some bartenders recommend using grand marnier because it’s more complex and deep, so it's still a very good idea.
I’m a bartender here in the states, and the way I was taught doesn’t use lime juice or syrup. I use just under an ounce of each and use the cola at the end. You can use lemon juice at the end as a splash but just a splash for the ice tea with lemon.
I would definitely do equal parts everything not just the liquors, also lemon juice rounds out the drink way more than lime juice imo. That's how I make mine and my AMF's as well and have never gotten a complaint that they taste too strong. Great video! Subbed!
Well mixed
Screenshotted this , I’m going to try this next time 🙇🏻♀️
@@maggyxchuu try simple syrup that’s two parts sugar for every one part water as well if you like your drinks on the sweeter side, it also has a way longer shelf life this way too :)
@@MandoEmmm thank you so much! I definitely will try it with simple syrup ☺️
I love drinks that taste different than you would expect, the Long Island included. My all time favorite is a shot of bar magic called Chocolate Cake.
It’s equal parts hazelnut liquor and vodka. Coat a lemon wedge with sugar, suck the lemon and keep the juice in your mouth, shoot the shot. It really does taste exactly like chocolate cake. I bartended in New Orleans for a few years in my 20’s and that one was always a crowd pleaser. Vanilla vodka works perfectly with it. Love your videos!
Not enough cola, but yeah!
I worked at the Oak Beach Inn summers, starting out as a bar boy and working my way up to doorman and then bartender. One of the best party places, Sundays were crazy on the dock, unfortunately closed years ago.
A woman with that wonderful accent you can listen to all day even if she recites the phonebook that can drink you under the table (I know I can't hold my liquor sadly) is a deadly combination.
I've always made mine with Bacardi bicardi 151 gold. In substitute for substitute for the white rum
Curious as to what you'd think of a Hurricane, New Orleans style.
That and a 190 octane daiquiri.
Can't leave out the hand grenades, now...
The express lane to drunk... My favorite! I love the variations, Long Beach Ice tea...
Ciara getting slammed at home under the guise of "let me make you a coctail". Well played Ciara, well played.
Oak Beach Inn was a staple of long Island back in the 80s and 90s. If you lived in Suffolk County back them you had to have gone to at least one of them. I got to go to two of them when I was younger and had some great stories. Lol
That was great. Have you considered doing one of the "medicinal" cocktails like the Penicillin or the Painkiller? Both are tiki-influenced.
i put lemon juice along with a double serving of simple syrup or make some homemade sweet and sour and put 2:1 of the other 5 spirits and put a good ounce or 2 of cola
At party’s, to make multiple drinks, it’s easier to use a baby bottle. Quick measurement lines
Besides, it gives the overly chatty guests something to do when you slip the nipple onto the bottle.
@@no2all, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
or you know a measuring cup
@@wesleymatthews6356 not my ideal but it ended up being very efficient. Probably too efficient
Always my favorite person on the Try channel! Just found out you had your own channel! New subscriber! ♥️
The dress is gorgeous, it really brings out the color of your eyes!
I personally love the Tokyo Tea with an melon liqueur called Midori. Also looks pretty with the green touch!
My favorite thing about a Long Island is that it comes in a tall glass.
I grew up on Eastern Long Island. I kind of remember drinking 2 on my birthday one year.
Haha. College drinking establishment, circa 1994, had "quad-night". 4 x the alcohol for the normal price. LIIT came in a big glass. Two and you were DONE.
I used to do 5 pint glasses
LIIT is my favourite cocktail. I remember staying at a hotel for a work conference once, and wanted one. The bar only sold spirits by the double measure - so I ended up with 10 measures in a pint glass, and with all the ice, there wasnt much room for the cola... I remember being told the next day I got totally hammered that night!
The Long Island Iced Tea aka Time Travel...
got to love a good long island iced tea or long beach iced tea is very good as well.
Oh my God, facial reactions from Ciara!
Quick, someone alert the Try Channel!
Surprise at how good it tasted, not the pop of the alcohol, though.
The recipe most of the really cheap bars here in the Midwest use a bottle of pre-mixed Triple Sec, Tequila, Vodka, Gin, and White Rum. They then mix that with an equal part of Sweet & Sour Mix (essentially just very very strong lemonade). They then top it off with a bit of Coke, just like you did.
The nicer bars make it like how you make it (but without vanilla in the vodka), but they still add about a shot of sweet and sour mix to dilute it. I think it really helps balance it out.
My first Long island was in Memphis Tennessee, the bar served them in buckets with straws. Yes, buckets. Two straws, but no one used the second straw. I'm also surprised I still have a functioning liver.
I love that she's using my favorite tequila! It goes down so smooth no chaser needed
I find that having one with a little more citrus juice in it reeeeeeeeeally covers up the alcohol. The more lemon, the more dangerous in my experience.
I like to strain any citrus juice when adding to cocktails. It is less bitter and requires less syrup to sweeten.
The only cocktail I’ve had that is boozier is the Black Orchid, a signature drink from a private goth club. Not sure what’s in it but it tastes a lot like a grape soda and knocks you on your butt.
its a Long Island with Chambord instead of cola
I used to love the oak beach inn!
One night at a local bar the last thing I remember the bartender say was "you better be careful when you drink these". She was not wrong. But they taste so good.
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That is a great drink! I love your choices.
When you shake it next time... Don't worry about moving your arms around. Hold it over your shoulder and shake from the elbow vigorously until the entire shaker is "COLD". Then serve over the ice.
The shaking unlocks different tones of flavor when you do it that way and it won't melt the ice in the shaker.
Yet again I'll ask... can we get a Try Channel video of Ciara making her favorite cocktails for the rest of the group? I'd like to see how others like those.
When I was on a cruise with my friend's they decided to non-stop long islands for a whole day. I dont remember that day!
Also for an absinthe drink they had the "quick fix". I don't know exactly what was in it but basically everything. I just know I got one, woke up 4 hours later in my cabin with my drink still half full on the night stand. What a ride
Needs more cola in it. It really should be the color of an iced tea.
Not if it's like my aunt's sweet tea that stuff is colored water, we usually just drank water at her house
@@111scone she probably needed to use a taller glass to add more cola
@@sherievaughn6475 I used to drink them in pint glasses
@@LindaC616 🤣
A Long Island was the first cocktail I ever had and it’s still my all time favorite.
I demand that you extend your pinky when saying "Dr Evil chair" going forward.
LIIT my fav. Great tutorial
The only suggestion I would make, is a bigger glass.
She needed to double the simple syrup, not half, and add more coke as it should be equal part to the alcohol . I love Long Island Iced Teas . Yum !
This and Golden/Cadillac Margarita are good options for a Friday night . Thx
Long Island Iced Tea makes us Irish People on Long Island keep up the stereotype(drunks)!
Only stronger drink is a Hurricane and I don't remember what either tasted like
@@telluricman Depends how you define stronger. The Smuggler's Cove version is a daiquiri with lemon juice and passion fruit syrup scaled up by 2, not really stronger, just more. Their Zombie on the other hand is 4 ounces of rum, 1 of which being overproof, against just 1 3/4 ounce, 1 teaspoon and 2 dashes of mixers, and those dashes are Angostura bitters and absinthe, both over 40%, while 1/2 ounce is falernum, also about 11%. However you define stronger, the Zombie certainly is.
Pete Melon you have no idea about Irish about Diaspora in New York. My family on both sides are ethically Irish.
I haven't been behind a bar in years, skills are skills! Keep em coming!
I have a friend who can down at least 4 of these before he starts showing signs of being drunk
When I was 28-32, the magic number was 5
Who are you apparently I know you
we made a punchbowl of this at our wedding party ten years ago. Costed a months rent, but got 11 of our friends and us in a twilight zone mood :D
Try a long island ice tea with whiskey instead of tequila
Or whiskey AND tequila 😈
Bourbon instead of tequila. Yep. Been there done that. Definitely makes it sweeter. Which encourages you to drink it faster. And
Thanks! This was my first drink on my 21st birthday!
That's awesome!
@@CiaraODoherty suggestion: I’ve always seen them made with a dash of sweet and sour rather than lime juice. Done right, this drink really tricks into tasting like a lemony ice tea!
Only had this a few times, and NEVER more than one at a time, followed usually by lots of water or much less concentrated drinks...
I love Long Islands! I ordered one recently and it didn’t have any coke in it. It was so nasty that I actually sent it back and got a margarita, my second go-to drink. It’s a amazing how that one non-alcoholic ingredient changes the flavor completely.
If thats strong to ciara then thats like drinking petrol to the average person
My favorite drink. I have a half gallon pre-mixed at this very moment. Think I'll have one now.
Oh no, you don't get off that easy...finish the drink! LIIT is my goto as a before dinner drink. Just one and I can still drive home. Yes, an iconic American mixed drink. Great video!