Twisted Tea Half & Half:

Evening all, after a good day of exploring beers, I head back to my obligations of hitting of the tallboys and malts liquors. As with last weekend’s trip into I try to find something at least better tasting than what I’ve been trying all week and today’s beverage of choice is Twisted Tea’s Half & Half (half lemonade and half tea). When I worked the Colonial Golf Tournament a few years ago this was a popular drink for those coming off the course, most of them drunk already and they came slurring and sidling up to me asking for “Drunken Palmers” or a “John Daly”, whatever you want to call it, it’s a drink that’s easy to make and a little too easy to consume a boat load of them. When I saw this can in the cooler at my local corner store, I pondered how I could justify buying this and then drinking it to review; then I remembered everything that I’ve done this month in this blog and went ahead with it, damn the torpedoes and all that jazz. So this brew pours just like iced tea, no foam, no carbonation, that’s a good thing, carbonated ice tea doesn’t sound that appealing. Now, most of us reading this blog are southern and ice tea, especially sweet tea, is a way of life. I know of at least three different ways to make sweet tea, probably 10 to 20 ways to flavor it and of course, there is the add-ons. One of those add-ons is lemonade and it’s a great addition to regular tea (you can add it to sweet tea but talk about sugar overload) giving it a sweet, tart taste along with the obligatory lemon taste. Another great addition is liquor, and its personal choice on what you want to add; vodka for the aforementioned adult beverages, Cajun spice rum if your giving tours in the Old New Orleans Rum distillery, and of courses whiskey. The canned version of this one tastes like a heavy hand of vodka poured it and while it isn’t bad, it does limit the consumption of it. Though I found myself nearly finishing the can, using the lack of carbonation to my advantage and nursing the can throughout most of the day, it was an trial of will at times. Not a bad Sunday drink, I have noticed that there were several other Twisted Tea varieties out there, and maybe I’ll dive back to try another one or two. So there you go, there is a first for this month, I’m actually willing to revisit a line willingly, not out of obligation. Tomorrow, I come from the land of Mary so it’ll be interesting what I find up there. Till then friends.