To help launch new cocktail website bible Gin & Tales, Dre Masso, the site’s editor and one of the capital’s leading mixologists, offers us his quick and easy take on the classic Long Island Iced Tea, a highball cocktail traditionally made with vodka, gin, tequila and rum.

Almond Iced Tea

Ingredients:

60ml Beefeater 24 gin

90ml chilled Sencha tea (brew Sencha tea in hot water then put in fridge until chilled)

20ml Orgeat Syrup

10ml Sugar Syrup

10ml Lemon Juice

Method:

Mix all the ingredients in a tall glass with ice, garnish with a lemon wheel.

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