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Questions from Readers: What to Mix with Favorite Spirits
Recently asked questions from readers:
Which is the best sweet tea vodka?
That question is better left answered by each individual. However, a side by side taste test comparison can be found on the site. Jeremiah Weed & Firefly Sweet Tea Vodkas Go Head to Head takes the confrontation to the glass and mixes things up a bit. You decide which one takes the cocktail for the winning sip.
A few Intoxicologist readers contributed recipes for a sweet tea challenge using Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea. Those recipes can be found in Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea: Cocktail Contest Winning Recipes. Firefly showed up at the Seven Deadly Sins Soiree at Tales of the Cocktail 2009.
What goes good with Three Olives Bubble Gum Vodka?
There are a few Three-O Bubble Vodka articles posted on The Intoxicologist site. These include cocktails, shots and drinks mixed over ice. There should be a something for a variety of tastes. Three-O Bubble Vodka’s aroma comes across a bit like Juicy Fruit gum, but does not taste sweet on the tongue in the same manner. It is whimsical and mixes well with fruity liqueurs and schnapps with club sodas or Sprite type toppers. Brut Champagne makes a great bubbly topper with liqueurs added to sweeten the deal as well.
Three-O Bubble Vodka Bubbles Over with Cocktails contains 4 cocktail and drink recipes with an additional 4 shot drinks for fun. Blowing Bubbles: Three Olives Bubble Vodka Review & Drink Recipe gives brief tasting notes with an additional cocktail recipe. There are more links to Three Olives reviews and media releases in each of the above links. Enjoy!
What goes with Torched Cherry Bacardi?
Bacardi Torched Cherry is relatively new on the cocktail scene, but definitely making a splash. Bacardi Dragon Berry & Torched Cherry Make Summer Entertaining a Breeze contains the Bacardi Torched Cherry Breeze with fresh fruits of the season and cucumber! You’ll find an additional Bacardi Dragon Berry Rum recipe tucked into the post as well. Happy Hour Buzz: Bacardi Torched Cherry reviews the spirit with a few tasting notes and two original cocktail recipes; the frozen Berried Cherry and Torched Cherry Limeade.
A few additional ideas:
Bacardi Torched Cherry, Cranberry with squeeze of lime
Bacardi Torched Cherry, splash of peach schnapps, top with club soda
Bacardi Torched Cherry, top with favorite flavored or non-flavored tea
Bacardi Torched Cherry, top with cola
What’s the difference between a buttery nipple and blow job shot?
Both shot recipes are covered in the Top 10 Popular Shot Recipes post. There are three variations of the Blow Job shot given rather than one. More shots can be found within the shot category heading.
What drinks can you make with Absolut Boston?
Absolut Boston is part of the ‘Cities’ editions flavors. It contains black tea and elderflower influences. Quite good. Absolut Boston Tea Flavor Parties Well with Drink Recipes contains the review with brief tasting notes and three original cocktail recipe creations. One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Introducing a Bottle of ABSOLUT Boston for Thee is the official Absolut media release with additional three drink recipes for the Absolut Boston flavor.
Absolut unveiled the new Absolut Berri Acai a few months ago (February) which was also reviewed on The Intoxicologist site with side by side comparison to the Van Gogh Acai-Blueberry by reader request. You’ll find this review with original recipe Berrily a Mojito in post, Absolut Berri Acai: Mint Condition Cocktail Spirit. The newest Absolut ‘Cities’ offering contains the flavoring of red apple and ginger with bottle design by Spike Lee. This review with summer 
style cocktail can be found in Absolut Brooklyn Spikes Vodka with Pizzazz.
What mixes with Finlandia all natural Tangerine Fusion?
Finlandia Tangerine Fusion flavor seems to flow naturally with spring and summer cocktail sipping. I loved this particular flavor. Finlandia Tangerine Fusion: Catch the Wave, Ride the Tangerine Dream reviews the spirit with three original cocktail recipes to try.
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Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea – Firefly Vodka – Three Olives Vodka – Bacardi Rum
Jeremiah Weed & Firefly Sweet Tea Vodkas Go Head to Head
In a side by side comparison taste test between Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea Vodka and Firefly the winner is…
Actually in a taste comparison there really is never a clear cut champion or defeated spirit when equivalent brands dual. What becomes apparent is the significant differences and similarities between two rival brands boasting superiority over the other. Each individual taster must decide which spirit they prefer according to their own palate.
Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea Vodka: Tea leaf scent sharpness. This flavored vodka borders on liqueur feel in my book with its extreme sweetness. The taste is exactly like Southern sweet tea with the medium body texture of vodka. Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea Vodka comes off extremely sweet in my book.
Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka: Delicate tea body in aroma. Thin vodka base. Light sweetness, yet still easily sippable. This is a dangerous one! By that I mean Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka could easily be poured over a tall glass of ice and sipped as if it were a tall glass of innocuous Southern sweet tea rather than the potently charged 70 proof vodka based spirit it actually happens to be.
Both Sweet Tea Vodkas have a Lemonade recipe that is similar, but not exactly the same. In the name of fairness I balanced the two and came up with a 2 ounce Sweet Tea Vodka ratio with Lemonade topper as the basis for my assessment. Both concoctions taste about on par with each other. However, when mixed with lemonade with its own sugary base the drink becomes entirely too sweet. Scaling the recipe to the following measurements renders a much better cocktail that easily passes for something potable if you prefer a squeeze of lemon in your sweet tea rather than lemonade mixed with sweet tea.
Lemon Squeeze Tea – created by The Intoxicologist
2-1/2 ounces Sweet Tea Vodka
1 ounce Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
Lemon Twist for Garnish
Build in a large rocks glass over ice. Garnish with the lemon twist for a hint of peel bitter freshness.
As I said early on there is not a winner or a loser in a head to head match-up of obviously equivalent spirits. In the recipe above it really does not make a difference which brand you opt for since the lemon takes the bite out of the tea leaf sharpness and the sugar factor is slight at best when weighing the two brands. That being said, consider your preference for sharp over delicate in regard to tea leaves and sweetness level. Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea Vodka ranks in as sweeter and sharper whereas Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka lines up a tad more delicate and a little less sweet.
· Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea Intoxicologist Cocktail Contest Winning Recipes
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