Vodka and Ice Tea and Iced Tea Vodka are two very different things. One is basically a cocktail while the other is a vodka infusion. Really the latter is just tea flavoured vodka that has been either artificially flavoured or infused using tea leaves. Brands of tea flavoured vodka are detailed below.
Iced tea and vodka comes in many guises and can be a brilliantly refreshing drink. At London Cocktail Week this year I came across a recipe that really hit the spot (see Momo's Sassy Punch just below).
The great thing about putting together a cocktail with iced tea is that the options are endless. There are countless variations in tea and if you are into your tea varieties you can experiment very easily with iced tea vodka recipes. As a guide, if you add some sugar or sugar syrup to your vodka and iced tea plus perhaps a squeeze or two of lemon juice you should be onto a winner!
To prep the tea you can either chill a batch of your brewed tea of choice or alternatively buy a powdered mix that simply needs to be diluted.
If you are feeling adventurous you could always infuse your own vodka with tea but this will result in something quite different and need a lot of straining. Vodka is a versatile spirit that really can be infused with pretty much anything.
This is the recipe that was served at London Cocktail Week in the Ketel One Hub.
Yield:1 cocktail
Prep Time:5 minutes (plus prep time for chilling tea and making sugar syrup if required)
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Yield:1 cocktail
Prep Time:3 minutes
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Prep Time:4 minutes
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Try this for a zingy, citrus tea flavour.
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Prep Time:4 minutes
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Tip:If your iced tea is already sweetened then you can remove the sugar syrup and top up with more tea depending on how sweet you want the cocktail to turn out.
Products include: Original sweet Tea, Skinny Tea, Raspberry Tea, Peach Tea
Produced on Wadmalaw Island in South Carolina, USA, Firefly purports as being the world’s first hand-crafted sweet tea flavoured vodka. It is distilled four times, infused with tea that is grown on a plantation just five miles away and then blended with real Louisiana sugar cane.
This is Absolut Vodka infused with Chinese black tea and oolong tea plus added elderflower flavourings.
Winner of a gold medal in the San Francisco World Spirits Competition in 2011, Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka is made in Austin Texas with honey and tea leaves and distilled ten times. It claims to be an all natural product with no artificial flavourings.
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