Bourbon Southern Sweet Tea Cocktail Recipe

By
Joyce
– September 29, 2011Posted in: Recipes

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Bourbon Heritage Month Series

Bourbon Southern Sweet Tea Recipe featuring Woodford Reserve bourbon

Last Call for Summer at Woodford Reserve

I hate saying good bye to summer. I hate it. I am not ready to give up my sandals, by flirty little skirts, and easy wear clothes in all the colors of the rainbow.
   
   
Barefeet

   

I look at my fall and winter wardrobe and sigh….brown and black…blah.

   
   

But just because summer is fading, do not expect me to give up sweet tea. OH NO! I like my tea iced; I like my tea hot. It goes without saying that a little bourbon either way is a good thing.

   
   

Last weekend, Rhoda and I had the pleasure to attend visit Woodford Reserve Bourbon Distillery for their Guest Chef Series featuring that hot shot chef who’s name should be familiar to my readers, Chef Jeremy Ashby It was a beautiful day in the Bluegrass, with the sun smiling down on glasses of what Woodford Reserve bills as the “Ultimate Southern Sweet Tea.”

We began the event with a Bluegrass Sunrise Cocktail Recipe Bourbontini featuring Woodford Reserve, had a shot of Woodford Reserve Bourbon with a lesson in tasting descriptors, and finished with this tea as the main course was presented. It was a good day! (Yes MOM we ate well too…see at Woodford Reserve Bourbon Luncheon)

No, I’m not ready to let go of summer…..and you can bet I’ll be on the front porch sipping Bourbon Southern Sweet Tea until the snow flies.

Enjoy!


Bourbon Heritage Month
   
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Bourbon Cocktail Recipes

Bourbon Southern Sweet Tea Recipe

Adopted from Woodford Reserve Suggestions

Bourbon Cocktail, Cocktail Recipe, Sweet Tea Recipe

Ingredients

  • ½ cup unsweetened ice tea (I like Luzianne Tea for this Recipe because of it’s clean finish Individual Bags just became available in our area!)
  • 2 ¼ ounces of Ginger Syrup (Directions below)
  • 1 ½ ounces of Woodford Reserve Bourbon
  • 1 ½ ounces Peach Schnapps
  • Juice of 1 small lime wedge plus a lime wedge for garnish
  • Optional…peach wedge as second garnish

Method

1. To make ginger syrup slice fresh ginger root into thin slices, boil in 1 cup of water and 1 cup of pure cane sugar for about 5 minutes. Cool. Can be stored in refrigerator. Wonderful over ice cream, and I like it drizzled over Classic Pound Cake and freshly sliced peaches and or apples.

2. Put all measured liquids as listed above in a cocktail shaker to mix.

3. In a rocks glass, add ice. Pour liquid over and garnish with lime wedge and a peach if you got ‘em!

Makes 1 Serving plus a little for “topping off”

For tailgating or   picnics, make up a large batch of sweet tea ahead of time and add ginger syrup, bourbon, and schnapps for individual servings.

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About Joyce

Joyce Friend Pinson is a regional farm-to-table columnist for the Appalachian-News Express. She is a local television host. Her column show and blog, Friends Drift Inn, explores food, gardening, and real life farm-to-table stories from the perspective of a baby boomer in Appalachia. Joyce has a background in agriculture, media, and small business. Joyce is an heirloom gardening addict and home canner. She has a penchant for big hats, pointy toed shoes, and bourbon. Along with her husband Charlie, Joyce really does live in a barn where they ballroom dance. And laugh. And cook. And giggle.