Bar Necessities
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Arnold Palmer

The golfer's drink

Glass Collins
Method Built
Garnish lemon wheel

Half iced tea, half lemonade. Named for the golfer, who ordered it this way for decades. Palmer himself preferred 3:1 tea to lemonade; the popular version has gone 1:1.

Ingredients

  • 4 oz Black Tea
  • 1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
  • 3/4 oz Simple Syrup
  • 3 oz Water

Method

Fill a collins glass with ice. Pour cold-brewed black tea and lemonade (built from lemon juice, simple syrup, and water at 1:1:3) in equal measures. Stir. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

Sourced from Named after Arnold Palmer, who popularized the drink from the 1960s onward. Canonical form per Wikipedia, The Kitchn, multiple golf publications.