Ingredients
- .5 oz Vodka
- .5 oz Triple Sec
- .5 oz Rum
- .5 oz Gin
- .5 oz Tequila
- 1 Sours
- .5 oz Blue Curacao Liqueur
- 4-6 oz Lemonade
Instructions
Shake the ingredients:
- In a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes, add vodka, rum, gin, tequila, triple sec, blue curacao, and sours. Shake well until chilled.
Strain into a glass:
- Strain the mixture into a hurricane glass filled with ice.
Add lemonade and Sprite:
- Top off the drink with lemonade and a splash of Sprite for a fizzy finish.
Serve immediately:
- Enjoy this bold, refreshing cocktail!
Notes
Estimated Nutrition:
Where it came from
Long Island variants have spawned dozens of named children. Adios Motherfucker, Walk Me Down, Texas Tea, Tokyo Tea. Each swaps the cola or adds a new accent. Walk Me Down lifts the sour mix higher than the others, so it drinks sweeter and more lemonade-leaning.
Some bartenders add blue curacao for colour. The version above stays clear and lets the lemon-lime do the work.
What it tastes like
Lemonade up front, sour edge in the middle, alcohol warmth on the back. The five spirits stack but stay quiet under the sweet-sour build.
Heavy ice is what saves it. The drink dilutes from spirit-bomb to citrus highball as it goes down.
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Ingredient Spotlight
The bottles that make or break this drink.
The five spirits
- Use
- Standard pour vodka, gin, white rum, gold tequila
- Skip
- Premium versions, hidden under the sour mix
The sour mix
- Use
- Fresh lemon juice plus sugar syrup, equal parts
- Skip
- Bottled neon sour mix, ruins the drink
The triple sec
- Use
- Cointreau or a quality triple sec
- Why
- It is the connective tissue between the citrus and the spirits
What if I don't have…
Quick substitutions for when the bottle shop is closed.
Cut to four spirits. Drink survives but loses the agave note.
Lemon juice plus a teaspoon of sugar.
Top with a splash of cola. Now it is a Long Island.
Add 15 ml of blue curacao.
Half all the spirits and double the ice.
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