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I will do a real post maybe later tonight, but I wanted to share the results of my vodka tea experiment. SO GOOD. I was so impressed. All I did was steeped 5 tea bags in a pint of vodka for 10 hrs (I wanted it to be really strongly tea flavored). Then added to lemonade with muddled lemon balm from the garden. Pretty kickass. I would definitely recommend making this. My only thing to remind you about it is that tea actually does have a lot of caffeine, it just doesn't really have time to leave the leaves in a normal steeping in water. But 5 tea bags in alcohol for 10 hrs? I'm assuming that there is a fair bit of caffeine. If you are super sensitive, try decaf. I didn't have any problems falling asleep last night, so it shouldn't be too big a deal.

Presentation-ready.

I was worried it would look gross stirred, but it still looks like classy tea.

I also have cherry lemonade (Santa Cruz organic juices were 50% off at Whole Foods), so I might try a cherry tea lemondade mixed drink later. I think I'll try making some different types of infused vodkas too. Green tea vodka might be good in lemonade. I want to make hot pepper vodka for Bloody Marys. I'm also going to see about making my own extracts, but that is a post for another day.