Hard Spiked Peach Iced Tea Lemonade

I love trying new refreshing summer cocktail ideas. I recently made this spiked peach iced tea lemonade. This boozy iced tea recipe is a game changer! It is one of the BEST alcoholic peach tea recipes I ever made. Now I want to share it with you so you can make this hard spiked ice tea lemonade. I just know you’ll love this iced tea and lemonade cocktail as much as I do!

Enjoy every sip of this delicious boozy iced tea. It’s a great treat for the hotter months because it’s thirst-quenching as well as really tasty.

You might also like passion fruit martinis or magic color changing lemonade. And blackberry Moscow mules are really good!

What You Need to Make a Boozy Iced Tea Recipe

Take your pick from green tea or black tea to base this drink on. You will also need peach juice. These are the two main flavors in this iced tea and lemonade cocktail. In addition, you need lemon, lime, honey, and vodka. Oh and of course some ice to make it refreshingly cold!

For the alcoholic iced tea garnish, you can take your pick from many options. Consider garnishing this spiked peach iced tea lemonade with slices of peach, lemon and/or lime. Fresh mint leaves would be nice as well. It would taste delicious with a lemon icebox pie on a warm summer day.

How to Prepare Hard Spiked Tea Lemonade

This boozy iced tea recipe is quick and easy to make. Start off by brewing the tea then juice your lemons and limes. Add honey, vodka and peach juice. After that it’s just a matter of chilling this refreshing summer cocktail.

It’s your call how much vodka to add to this alcoholic peach tea. Also you can vary the amount of honey. It’s your iced tea and lemonade cocktail so you can adjust how boozy it is as well as how sweet.

Choose from honey, agave syrup, sugar, or artificial sweetener. You can add however much sweetness as you wish to your spiced peach iced tea lemonade. So add a little bit, taste, then add more if needed.

This spiked peach iced tea lemonade can be prepared a day ahead (without the vodka). Actually it will keep for two or three days in a covered pitcher in the refrigerator. Add the vodka before serving as well as your preferred garnish.

Iced Tea and Lemonade Cocktail Variations

Feel free to tweak this alcoholic peach tea to your heart’s content! It can be a lot of fun to experiment with a boozy iced tea recipe. Get the girls over and get creative!

Try adding more fruit such as blueberries, pineapple or strawberries to your hard tea lemonade. Cucumber slices also work in this refreshing summer cocktail. If you want to change the alcohol, you could use vanilla vodka or even try something different like peach schnapps.

Another idea is to freeze the mixture and make boozy popsicles. However, if you want to try this don’t put too much alcohol in the mix, else they won’t freeze! And then you’ll have peach tea slush instead of a popsicle.

History of Sweet Tea

You already know tea has a long and fascinating history but what about sweet tea and especially iced tea? It’s believed tea plants were introduced to the US by a French botanist in the 1700s.

Very soon iced tea recipes appeared in recipe books. And guess what – they all had alcohol in them! That’s right, this hard spiked iced tea lemonade is more vintage than you might think!

These green tea punches were known as Regent’s Punch. They were made from green tea, although today black tea seems to be the more popular option. These centuries old boozy iced tea recipes typically included brewed green tea, sugar, cream, and a bottle of claret (red wine from Bordeaux) or a bottle of champagne.

The first sweet tea recipe dates back to 1879. In this recipe, green tea is stirred into boiling water then left to brew for several hours. After that the mixture is strained and served with ice and sugar, along with optional lemon juice.

The first sweet tea recipe made with black tea dates back to 1904. Prohibition lasted for 13 years. Since alcohol was illegal at the time, iced tea recipes surged in popularity and pretty much every Southern cookbook from that period included at least one sweet iced tea recipe.

Since then of course iced tea has gone from strength to strength (especially in the South!) and there are many varieties to try including this hard iced tea recipe. There are plenty of bottled options or you can experiment with your own recipes. I highly recommend this hard spiked iced tea lemonade recipe for a warm summer evening though!

Hard Spiked Peach Iced Tea Lemonade Recipe

Whether you sip on this outdoors after dinner enjoying the sunset or make a big pitcher for your friends, you are sure to love the taste of this spiked peach ice tea lemonade. It’s a perfectly refreshing summer cocktail with a heady kick!

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