A lot of cocktails have just one or two types of alcohol. But sometimes, that just isn’t enough. Sometimes, for example, after you’ve spent hours at work staring at the same block of text without figuring out what it means, or after you’ve walked past the same attractive person dozens of times without an opportunity to talk to them, or after your parents have told you that you should get married to a nice Japanese woman, you need more liquors than that. You might need at least, say, five.
So a drink you might think of when you think of drinks with lots of alcohol is a Long Island Iced Tea.
Long Island Iced Tea
0.5 oz vodka
0.5 oz tequila
0.5 oz rum
0.5 oz gin
0.5 oz triple sec
2 oz sour mix
1 oz Coke
lemon slice
That’s a potent drink, with five types of alcohol. Luckily the tequila and gin, neither of which I really like, are drowned out by the rest of the alcohol and the sour mix. It’s a nice way to get drunk.
A close relative of the Long Island is the AMF.
Adios Motherfucker
0.5 oz vodka
0.5 oz tequila
0.5 oz rum
0.5 oz gin
0.5 oz blue curacao
2 oz sour mix
2 oz Sprite
lemon slice
Basically the same as a Long Island, except the triple sec is replaced with blue curacao, and the Coke is replaced with Sprite. A more refreshing flavor than the Long Island, I thought. Also very potent.
And when five isn’t enough, you need six types of alcohol.
Tokyo Iced Tea
0.5 oz vodka
0.5 oz tequila
0.5 oz rum
0.5 oz gin
0.5 oz triple sec
1 oz Midori
2 oz sour mix
2 oz Sprite
lemon slice
This one’s potent too, as you might expect from having six different types of alcohol in it. The Midori flavor’s actually noticeable, and it goes well with the sourness of the sour mix. Hard to tell what any of the other liquor is… but it gets you drunk.
It’s hard to believe that it’s actually necessary to have all five or six types of alcohol in these drinks. Would it really make a difference if you just used half of the varieties and doubled the amounts? Hmm maybe I should try that.