FireFly Sweet Tea Vodka
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:32
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ok *unkills thread*
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Quote:Gorramn it, who puts sugar in vodka?? Wtf, seriously people.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
This new distillation, made from five-time distilled muscadine grapes, is handcrafted in small batches and infused with American tea grown on Wadmalaw Island and sugar cane grown in Louisiana.
Well, that's one vodka this vodka-freak definitely will not be drinking. Shame given the reference.
Seriously, wtf?
~CK
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"Vodka may be distilled from any starch/sugar-rich plant matter; most vodka today is produced from grains such as sorghum, corn, rye or wheat. Among grain vodkas, rye and wheat vodkas are generally considered superior. Some vodka is made from potatoes, molasses, soybeans, grapes, sugar beets and sometimes even byproducts of oil refining or wood pulp processing" (wikipedia)
so, might they just be using it with the grapes in the distilling process? it is *sweet* tea vodka after all :-P sweet tea is uber sweet
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Muscadine grapes are super sweet anyway. If you've ever had any muscadine or scuppernong (a type of muscadine grape native to NC,SC and southern VA) wine you'll think you're drinking sweet juice then Whoa Nelly! it hits you.
I was allowed to sip it as a young person by my grandmother at Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was considered a "ladies wine" and was also served with dessert. There are several wineries around here that make a very good muscadine wine but none of them have branched out to vodka.
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well arent sweet wines considered dessert wines anyway for that reason?
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Meh, the way I read "and infused with American tea grown on Wadmalaw Island and sugar cane grown in Louisiana" it sounds like they make the vodka, then put tea and sugar in it. If it's sweeter than normal vodka, it's not just sugar being used in the fermentation, it's sugar added afterwards, the way you would pour those little packets of sugar into your ice tea at a restaurant.
Beyond my own medical restrictions against processed sugar, sweet vodka just seems wrong to me. I guess I'll be sticking the to classics. /Shrug
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Quote:
Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:Quote:Gorramn it, who puts sugar in vodka?? Wtf, seriously people.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
This new distillation, made from five-time distilled muscadine grapes, is handcrafted in small batches and infused with American tea grown on Wadmalaw Island and sugar cane grown in Louisiana.
Well, that's one vodka this vodka-freak definitely will not be drinking. Shame given the reference.
Seriously, wtf?
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
That's not MY quote, and the sugar is for the TEA, genius.
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Quote:/facepalm
Originally posted by AURaptor:
That's not MY quote, and the sugar is for the TEA, genius.
Right, I know. I quoted your post that started this thread. I assume you got the quote from the official webpage or something, but it's at the top of the thread so I quoted it so that people would know what the hell I was talking about. Didn't mean to imply that you cooked that one up on your own.
And second, I know the sugar is for the tea. That's what I'm complaining about! They added sugar to vodka, thereby making it no longer vodka. It isn't vodka anymore, it's tea-flavored Smirnoff Ice.
Some people CAN'T have sugar. Some people prefer to mix their vodka with other things, like cranberry juice, orange juice, tomato juice, olive juice, etc etc. My complaint was that this company took a perfectly good vodka -- not to mention a perfectly good name -- and ruined it by putting sugar in it!
Seriously, sugar is in frickin everything these days. I would like to be able to at least join my fellow Browncoats in a glass of FireFly vodka but I can't because these idiots put sugar in it. Oh well, sucks for me. Like I said, I won't be buying it.
~CK
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