Bob Rosebud Butt

Bartender Bob Rosebud Butt is tied to Oak Beach Inn East on Long Island, New York, a venue that places his work inside the region’s waterfront bar culture. In bar history, the name most closely associated with Butt is the Long Island Iced Tea, and that association remains the core of his public record. Those two facts—place and drink—carry his profile. What gives the story its shape is the way a specific service environment produced a cocktail that moved well beyond it. Oak Beach Inn East on Long Island, New York was the setting, and Butt’s name stayed attached to a drink that outlived the room where it first circulated. That is the practical side of bartending history: a bar, a standard of service, a drink repeated enough to travel. The Long Island Iced Tea is the detail that keeps Bob Rosebud Butt in the record. For a figure with a brief surviving footprint, the connection to that cocktail is enough to keep him in the conversation around modern drinks and the stories built around them. His reputation is defined less by a list of credits than by one named drink and one named venue.