Highballs and long drinks · Vodka
Four clear spirits go in, raspberry liqueur turns the glass a deep violet, and fresh lemon plus a soda top keep it lively. It drinks easily, which is exactly why it deserves respect.
½ oz
vodkae.g. Absolut · Smirnoff · Grey Goose · Ketel One · Belvedere
½ oz
London dry gine.g. Tanqueray · Gordon's · Beefeater · Bombay Sapphire · Sipsmith
½ oz
white rume.g. Bacardi · Havana Club · Plantation · Don Q · Flor de Caña
½ oz
blanco tequilae.g. Olmeca Altos · Patrón · Don Julio · Espolòn · El Jimador
½ oz
raspberry liqueur for example Chamborde.g. Chambord · Giffard · Bols · Marie Brizard
¾ oz
lemon juice
¼ oz
simple syrup
top up with
lemon-lime soda about 60 ml
Garnish: Lemon wheel · Ice: Ice cubes
Grateful Dead
Sweet and fruity with raspberry and lemon over a clearly boozy core. Deceptively smooth for its strength.
The Grateful Dead is one of the many offshoots of the Long Island Iced Tea, the American bar staple built on several white spirits at once. It keeps the vodka, gin, rum and tequila base but replaces the triple sec and cola with raspberry liqueur and lemon-lime soda, which gives it its purple color and fruitier profile.
The name nods to the Grateful Dead, the San Francisco rock band, but there is no documented link between the band and the drink, and no known creator. Like its relatives the Adios Motherf***er (with blue curaçao) and the Tokyo Tea (with melon liqueur), it is best understood as a colorful bar-menu variation on a well-known formula.
The name refers to the band, but there is no documented connection between the Grateful Dead and the drink.
With 75 ml of spirits and liqueur it is a strong long drink, similar to a Long Island Iced Tea.
Yes. Any lemon-lime soda works as the top.
The perfect sound
A colourful, loose summer festival that never quite ends.
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