The Finnish Long Drink Traditional 6-Pack 355ml

The Long Drink Company is based in Chicago, and its cans read Product of USA. Three Finnish founders, Sakari Manninen, Mikael Taipale and Ere Partanen, started it with Evan Burns. The drink is inspired by the Finnish lonkero, created for the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.

The brand calls it citrus soda with real liquor. It's made with distilled spirit, and a co-founder has said it is technically a gin cocktail of grapefruit and gin, though the brand rarely says so. It's lightly carbonated, 5.5% alcohol and gluten-free per the brand.

The brand describes it as crisp, bubbly and lightly sweet citrus.

Against The Finnish Long Drink Strong, Traditional is lighter at 5.5% versus 8.5%; for an easygoing citrus can you can sip through an afternoon, choose Traditional.

Drink it ice-cold, straight from the can or over ice in a tall glass. A lemon or grapefruit wedge on the rim brings the citrus forward, and a tall glass keeps the bubbles lively longer than a short one.

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