Long Island Iced Tea Slush
Five spirits, one slush, zero memory.
The infamous American mega-cocktail — vodka, rum, tequila, gin and triple sec topped with cola. Slushed and surprisingly drinkable.
Bench-tested by the Will It Slush? team · Last revised August 1, 2026
Ingredients
Scale the batch — amounts update live in your units.
- Vodka60 ml
- White Rum60 ml
- Blanco Tequila60 ml
- Gin60 ml
- Triple Sec60 ml
- Fresh Lemon Juice90 ml
- Cola (flat)235 ml
- Water295 ml
- Sugar (to taste)74.2 g
Method
- 1.Flatten the cola.
- 2.Combine everything in Slushi on Spiked Slush, 60 min.
- 3.Lemon wedge garnish — and pace yourself.
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Notes from our testing
Five spirits at bar strength is 22% ABV — this only works as a deliberately weakened build.
The Long Island is the hardest classic to translate. A standard build stacks vodka, gin, rum, tequila and triple sec and lands above 20% ABV, roughly double what the machine can freeze. There is no clever workaround; the recipe has to be rebuilt at a fraction of the strength.
We use a half ounce of each of the four clear spirits plus an ounce of triple sec across a full 64 oz chamber, then lemon, syrup and cola to fill. That comes to about 9% ABV and 12 Brix. It still tastes like a Long Island — the flavour comes from the combination, not from the concentration — but it drinks like a spritz.
Keep the cola for the last two ounces and count its sugar. A splash of full-sugar cola is what gives the drink its colour and the faint caramel note that identifies it; it also adds around 10 Brix worth of liquid, so subtract from your syrup accordingly.
Because five bottles are involved, small pour errors compound. Measure with a jigger rather than free-pouring — a quarter ounce heavy on each of five spirits is over an ounce of extra alcohol and enough to push the batch out of the window.