Try mixing it at different ratios to dial in on what you like best. I like to let it sit so that it warms up a little bit and the flavors can mingle a bit more. Mix about 2 parts Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka with 1 part Simply Lemonade, and let it sit for a few minutes. Some folks like their tea with a little lemon, and simulating this with sweet tea vodka just requires a little bit of Simply Lemonade. Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka mixed down with water, what Deep Eddy calls The Skinny Dip, is a brilliant cocktail for your summer cookout or relaxing on your back porch. While the water brought out the vodka flavor a little more, you still need to be careful with Deep Eddy or you’ll forget that you’re still doing better than the ABV of beer and probably better than that of wine. I mixed at around 1/3 to 1/2 water with the vodka, and it drank almost exactly like a glass of sweet tea. Now, for some folks that don’t like their sweet tea as sweet as we do in the South, there’s a simple cocktail you can make at most homes if all you bought was a bottle of Deep Eddy. With Deep Eddy, it’s not as though you’re drinking a flavored vodka you’re drinking a sweet tea cocktail. When you’re done, there’s just the pleasant aftertaste of tea and a little warmth from the ethanol. If you’re sipping Deep Eddy straight, you’re not going to need a chaser. The vodka isn’t detectable until the swallow, and even then, it just pops in enough to remind me that I am, in fact, drinking an alcoholic beverage. The syrupy-when-cold mixture has a deep taste of dark tea that’s brought to a brighter, lighter note as the sugary flavors of the clover honey slowly becomes more discernible as my taste buds steep in the drink. That said, I like what Deep Eddy is doing with their tea. I know the taste I like, and I like it with more than a cup of sugar per gallon (well, technically, Splenda nowadays). I love sweet tea, but I can’t rhapsodize about the different tastes of different types of tea at different stages in growth from different parts of the world. Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka is the newest kid on the block that we know of, and we’re excited to see if it lives up to our expectations as Southerners and vodka drinkers. We’ve been watching the sweet tea vodka movement pick up steam, and, while we haven’t done many sweet tea vodka reviews, we’ve tried to cover the trend. It’s ingrained in our heritage and psyche that sweet tea is the best beverage on the planet next to vodka. As I mentioned before, we’re all Southerners here at VodkaBuzz.
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