The Adios, Motherfucker (sometimes known as an AMF or a Blue Motorcycle for the squeamish) is essentially a blue Long Island Iced Tea. The drink is American in origin, appeared to emerge in the 1980s, and had a resurgence around 2016. We can’t work out exactly who came up with it.
Ordering one requires … balls.
Adios, Motherfucker
Ingredients
- 15ml vodka
- 15ml rum
- 15ml tequila
- 15ml gin
- 15ml blue curaçao
- 30ml simple syrup
- 7ml lime juice
- Sprite or 7-Up to top
Instructions
1
Mix the first 7 ingredients in a tall glass with ice. Top with the fizzy drink and garnish with a cocktail cherry.
9 Comments
michelle
12/12/2020 at 5:41 amOk, this is totally random, but one of my clients said he and his buddies invented the AMF one night when they were tending bar.
He used to be a liquor distributor, traveled up and down California and has some crazy stories.
Suzanne Flores
03/07/2021 at 12:43 amThe Adios Motherfucker cocktail was invented by a bartender at TGIFridays in Orange, whose real name escapes me, but I do remember he had an alter ego named “Loki”. He invented the drink, but it was originally called an “Adios Madre” it evolved into “Adios Mother”, then “Adios Motherfucker”, by, if I recall, Brady “Ike” Eisenhower (AHS class of 1983 or 84), may he Rest In Peace. Ike also invented the “its nacho cheese” joke. I’m totally serious. I was there!
Don Cole
03/02/2022 at 2:33 amI drank my first Adios Motherfucker in about 1977 at The Creamery in San Luis Obispo; it had been served there for years. They had a sister restaurant/bar in Newport Beach that also served this drink. They invented it and advertised it as such, calling it an Adios Mother on their menu.
Nigel Eastmond
05/02/2022 at 3:18 pmThanks for this information. Useful to know!
Dave
14/01/2023 at 2:19 amThe Newport Bar was the Studio Cafe and the Adios MF was their signature drink. I lived up the street from there in 83/84.
It is now a place called Cabo Cafe. I just sold a poster featuring the Adios MF from the Studio Cafe that I bought in 84 that I never unwrapped.
Jim Gorrono
14/09/2023 at 4:46 amYep….I had two one night in 1978. Had to go lay on the beach by the pier to try and sober up
Jim Gorrono
14/09/2023 at 4:42 amThe Studio Cafe in Balboa Calfornia was serving this drink in the 70s. It was called the Adios Mother on the Menu…..no 3rd word
AMF Drink Origin: Uncovering the Origins of The Adios Motherf*cker Cocktail.
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Patti
04/06/2024 at 11:44 pmI lived on Balboa Peninsula and always heard it originated at Studio Cafe in the late seventies/early eighties.