Episode 52: Adios, Motherfucker

  • 3/4 ounce vodka

  • 3/4 ounce white rum

  • 3/4 ounce silver tequila

  • 3/4 ounce gin

  • 3/4 ounce blue curaçao

  • 3/4 ounce simple syrup

  • 1/4 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed

  • 1/2 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed

  • Lemon lime soda, to top

  • Garnish: lemon wedge

Add the vodka, rum, tequila, gin, triple sec, simple syrup and lime & lemon juices to a Collins glass filled with ice. Top off with a splash of lemon lime soda and stir gently to combine. Garnish with a lemon wedge and serve with a straw.

The Adios Motherfucker is basically just a Long Island with an LA twist. In place of the triple sec, you use blue curacao, and instead of cola, you use sprite or 7up. Other than that, it’s the same drink, but in this case, instead of looking like iced tea in the glass, it looks like a glass of drain cleaner with a lemon twist.

As a variation on another drink, it’s a bit hard to pin down the exact origin story, but it seems like it most likely came about sometime in the 80s, though I’ve read some unverified stories from people who say they were drinking them as early as the 70s. Either way, by the 90s they were certainly very popular, especially in southern California.

The Adios Motherfucker also goes by many other names. Adios, AMF, Adios Mother F-er, Walk Me Down, Blue Motorcycle, & Boston Tea Party.


Episode 43: Long Island Iced Tea

  • 3/4 ounce vodka

  • 3/4 ounce white rum

  • 3/4 ounce silver tequila

  • 3/4 ounce gin

  • 3/4 ounce triple sec

  • 3/4 ounce simple syrup

  • 3/4 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed

  • Cola, to top

  • Garnish: lemon wedge

Add the vodka, rum, tequila, gin, triple sec, simple syrup and lemon juice to a Collins glass filled with ice. Top off with a splash of cola and stir gently to combine. Garnish with a lemon wedge and serve with a straw.

The Long Island Iced Tea was created in 1972 by a bartender named Robert "Rosebud" Butt at the Oak Beach Inn in Long Island, New York.

Butt has said, "The world-famous Long Island Iced Tea was first invented in 1972 by me, Robert Butt, while I was tending bar at the infamous Oak Beach Inn. I participated in a cocktail creating contest. Triple Sec had to be included, and the bottles started flying. My concoction was an immediate hit and quickly became the house drink at the Oak Beach Inn. By the mid-1970s, every bar on Long Island was serving up this innocent-looking cocktail, and by the 1980s it was known the world over."

Obviously this drink is boozy AF – which could be why it took off as an almost instant classic. It’s sweet, and it’s strong, but doesn’t taste strong. It might also be because the recipe is so easy to remember and to make – with all the ingredients in the same amount.