Mix all the ingredients, including ice, in a shaker. Add a straw then a sprig of mint for garnish.Measure and pour in your lemonade, whiskey, then your tea.2 Ounces Lemonade – homemade or mix (Country Time is good).4 Ounces Unsweetened Tea – fresh brewed is best.How To Make The Perfect Arnold Palmer Cocktail Making an Arnold Palmer Cocktail with Jack Danielsĭid you know all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon? It all has to do with how much corn or grain is used, what type of barrel it’s aged in, and where it’s made. Being in Tennessee, Jack Daniels is always a good choice. Which type of Bourbon or Whiskey to use is just your preference.

Serving an Arnold Palmer Cocktail in mason jars The taste is totally up to you.įor a fun and casual look, serve it up in mason jars. If you like sweet tea, you will want to use sweetened, but for a bit more taste of the bourbon or whiskey, try unsweetened first. Ingredients for your Arnold Palmer CocktailĪre you a sweet or unsweet tea person? Maybe the farther South you live, the sweeter you like it. He later started selling this mixture but most everyone makes it themselves since it’s such an easy drink. I couldn’t find out if it was made with sweet or unsweet tea though. One hot day after golfing, he ordered this mixture, and someone overheard it and said, “I’ll have that Arnold Palmer”. The story goes Arnold Palmer had been drinking the mixture of iced tea and lemonade for years.

I’m thinking it would be perfect for sipping on the patio in warmer weather, or maybe make a pitcher full for watching The Masters in this weekend. But I’m taking it up a notch by making it into a cocktail. This has always been a favorite around our house, and you should try it if you haven’t. Here’s How To Make The Perfect Arnold Palmer CocktailĪre there any food or drinks with your name attached? I’m referring to his favorite drink – half iced tea and half lemonade. Serve immediately and often.Have you heard of an Arnold Palmer? No not the golfer Arnold Palmer, who I like to refer to as Uncle Arnie – I wish. simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water)įor the tea vodka: Add 1/2 cup loose black tea to a 1-liter bottle of vodka, let sit for 12-24 hours, then strain.įor the finished product: Combine vodka, syrup, and lemon juice, shake well, and strain into a martini (or other) glass. Just make sure to keep the glass away from the kids (we're looking at you,ġ oz. So, here's to many summer afternoons of slightly surreptitious martini drinking. Smooth, hooch-free taste makes us forget how drunk we are until we go drive a boat.Clandestine drinking potential due to zero vodka odor and wholesome iced-tea appearance.

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We're happy to report that the APM succeeds on many levels: If the Arnold Palmer Martini was going to live up to its namesake, we felt it was our journalistic duty to sample it under as many circumstances as possible, tinkering as we went along. It started out as a shot of tea vodka in lemonade and quickly became the opposite (a shot of lemonade in tea vodka), and by lunch I thought, this works.' 'I was playing around with homemade infused vodkas (tea, rosemary, lemon, pepper, etc.) last summer. Of course, every great invention has a creation story. If you've ever put a cigarette out in your G&T and discovered a tobacco-tinged, murky mess the next morning, you're already a pro at infusion. Don't let the vodka-infusion thing scare you off. Hughes's homemade formula, however, does one better: It dispenses with all the extraneous water in the equation by infusing the vodka directly with black tea, then adding lemon juice and simple syrup. A quick Google reveals evidence of a (very) boozy take on the legends's classic country-club beverage dubbed the 'John Daly,' in which the standard lemonade-and-iced-tea combo is spiked with a shot of vodka and renamed for America's favorite rough-and-tumble golfer. Hughes wasn't the first person to wonder what happens when you get (the) Arnold Palmer smashed. It is delicious, refreshing, and knocks you on your ass. Take the Arnold Palmer Martini, my new go-to summer tipple and the brainchild of amateur mixologist and friend of Eat Like A Man Matt Hughes. If we've learned one thing from TurBacon and deep-fried Oreos (and let's be honest, we've learned a lot of things from deep-fried Oreos), it's that some of the best ideas in food and drink don't always come from professional chefs.

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