Make a spiked Arnold Palmer (AKA the John Daly cocktail). Pour it over tea ice cubes to sip it straight without dilution.Īdd a shot to a glass of homemade iced tea. There are so many great ideas for this versatile spirit. This one is perfect for mojitos! Uses for Sweet Tea Vodka Mint Tea Vodka: Use mint simple syrup made with fresh mint instead of the unflavored kind. Peach Tea Vodka: Mix in homemade peach syrup instead of plain simple syrup. Lemon Sweet Tea Vodka: Add ¼ ounce lemon juice or more, to taste, into the mix. Honey Tea Vodka: Use honey simple syrup instead of simple syrup. Skinny Sweet Tea Vodka: Use sugar-free simple syrup made with your favorite sugar substitute, or simply use less simple syrup.
Infuse for 8-12 hours, then decant back into the vodka bottle. If you’d prefer to make a whole 750-ml bottle of vodka, use 10 regular tea bags. To multiply the recipe, use about 3 teabags for every 1 cup of vodka. Stir in 2 ounces of simple syrup into the vodka. You can also use a spoon, pressing the tea bag up against the edge of the container to force out the extra liquid. Tea drinkers may already have a tea bag squeezer, which is basically a little set of tongs. Remove tea bags from the vodka, pressing out any remaining liquid. Store in an airtight container until ready to use.) Remove from heat and let cool completely. In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine sugar and water. Meanwhile, make a simple syrup to sweeten the vodka. Cover with a lid and let rest for 8-12 hours. The color will begin to turn immediately. See the next section for instructions on making a whole bottle.Īdd the tea bags to a large mason jar.
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The recipe below shows you how to make a cup of sweet tea vodka, which can make 4-8 cocktails. If you plan to mix it into other kinds of drinks, you may wish to leave out the simple syrup entirely so that you can sweeten each drink individually. You can also use just about any flavored simple syrup: See the section called “Variations and Substitutions” below for some ideas. You can use granulated sugar, brown sugar or even honey. It is super easy to make with just sugar and water. Sugar or Simple SyrupĪs a cocktail blogger, I almost always have plain simple syrup in my fridge, but it’s okay if you don’t! You will need about 1 teaspoon of loose-leaf tea for every tea bag. You can use all the same flavors or you can mix and match to create your own flavor combinations. Green tea, white tea and rooibos tea all work just as well. Luzianne is another common one but there are tons of others on the market too. Lipton is a very common brand of black tea, especially in the South - it’s what many restaurants use to make their sweet tea. You can make this vodka with virtually any kind of tea! The classic sweet tea vodka uses black tea, which is the most common kind of tea for iced tea. Tea is one of the best natural ingredients for adding flavor to cocktail recipes. I love using all kinds of teas in cocktails, for example, this chai old-fashioned would be perfect with chai-infused bourbon. My go-to brands right now are Tito’s, Reyka, Absolut and Deep Eddy Vodka.Īlthough vodka is the typical spirit for making this sweet tea infusion, but bourbon can work really well too! Use the best vodka you can afford! In my Vodka 101 crash course, I’ll tell you how to pick out a bottle of vodka. If you are looking for a lighter version with less sugar, see my tips below under the section “Variations and Substitutions.” Ingredients Vodka Lots more sweet tea vodkas followed, including Seagram’s Sweet Tea Vodka, Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka and Southern Sweet Tea Vodka.įirefly Spirits also makes a Skinny Tea Vodka. Their distillery is in Charleston, South Carolina, one of my favorite Southern cities. In fact, the Firefly distillery made the first sweet tea vodka on the market. My first introduction was to the Firefly brand. Sweet tea vodka is simply vodka that’s been infused with tea and then sweetened. Now that I’m grown up, I know it’s still a favorite on bar carts here in the South, because it brings a little touch of that sweet tea flavor to all kinds of drinks, from the mojito to the hot toddy. There was always a bottle at parties for shots or mixing into drinks!
In my college days, my friends were obsessed with sweet tea vodka. If I’m out and craving a tea, I’ll ask for “half-and-half tea,” or half-sweet, half-unsweet iced tea.) (Personally, sweet tea can get to be a bit too sweet for me, which is why I like making it myself. I know people who have to drink a glass of sweet tea every day! Not just at parties and barbecues, but it’s common to order at restaurants with lunch or dinner. Growing up in the South, sweet iced tea is a staple. Homemade Sweet Tea Vodka Sweet Tea Vodka & Homemade Firefly recipe
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