Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka Makes a Splash: Product Review
Watch Out Stoli There's a New Vodka in Town.
The popularity of cocktails and gimmick drinks come in and out of fashion but that will not be the case with Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka. This little gem of a spirit was developed on the unassuming coastal South Carolina island of Wadmalaw and is one of the best things ever to come out of the South. Bar none. Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka is perfectly at home in a shot glass or a tall icy glass mixed with a bit of lemonade or sparkling water. It can be found at numerous bars and restaurants throughout in the Charleston, South Carolina area. It is also currently available in Georgia, New York, and Nevada.
I started hearing about this phenomenal concoction several months back. One of our local morning DJs was going on and on about how wonderful Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka was, which is unusual in itself, but when the other two DJs chimed in as well, I figured I'd better look into it. I hate to be behind the curve and I am very supportive of local entrepreneurs, so with the presidential debates coming up, I stopped and picked up a bottle.
Not being a native-born Southerner, I never acquired a taste for sweet tea; until now that is. What a marvelous, and potentially dangerous, mixture. Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka tastes exactly like you think it should. It is full flavored, sweet, and full of summertime under the magnolias. Quite a few folks I know who are acquainted with the vodka like to mix Firefly 50-50 with lemonade, but I really like the flavor of orange in my tea, so I went for a 50-50 mix of Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka and canned orangeade. It was a great choice and topped with a slice of orange presented a very festive cocktail, as well. A quick web search provides any number of sites with cocktail recipes starring Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka including cocktail.com. Cooks are also getting into the action. Charleston magazine recently presented several entrees using it as an ingredient.
Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka was developed by the Firefly Distillery on Wadmalaw Island, SC, which is a very hands-on operation. Photos on the company website here taken in the summer of 2008 show a very humble beginning for the brew. It was recently announced however, that a larger distillery in Kentucky is going to be producing the vodka for national distribution. The national release is scheduled for January 1, 2009. Firefly Distillery also produces Firefly Muscadien Wine Flavored Vodka, which is flavored by a luscious native South Carolina grape. Congratulations to the folks at Firefly Distillery for taking a great idea all the way.
Sources:
http://www.fireflyvodka.com/home.cfm
http://www.cocktail.com/tasting/offtheshelf/FireFlySweetTea.htm
Published by Anne Stjern
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16 Comments
Post a CommentFirefly may claim they use "real tea leaves" for their product, but that's not entirely true. In the surrounding cities of their distillery do receive bottles that have the tea leaves infused, but not the bottles that are purchased by majority of their customers.
Although, Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka infuses every bottle with a premium whole black tea leaf from Indonesia. Deep Eddy does not use High-Fructose corn syrup and caramel color additive to get that sweet tea color to the alcohol. Also Deep Eddy ingredients are 100% natural which makes taste that much better.
I would prefer Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka any day!
good review!
If I thought your meal would actually arrive edible, I'd send it tomorrow. Bojangles chicken is the best.
I am from Maryland and got hooked on sweet tea at Chapel Hill. You do not like sweet tea? Repeat. You do not like sweet tea? I want you to pick up some Bojangles for me. Two-piece meal, fries, biscuit, and sweet tea. Send to Chicago. ASAP!
Mmmm.......might be good to have for the holidays!
Vodka in the title caught my eye. I am such a Vodka lush. Great review. Perhaps someone can pry the Stoli out of my hand one day so I can try this
Thanks for this review! I see it in the liquor store every time I go in and wonder what it's like. Going to pick some up next time!
Sounds yummy for holiday parties !
Interesting review :)
Oh...that is so wrong. Good, but wrong!