Not Your Grandma’s Sweet Tea.

This tea-based liqueur gets an extra hint of sweetness with help from the highly enjoyable but equally stubborn pomegranate. Don’t fret. Pomegranate-flavored tea bags are widely available and so much easier to wield.

PREPARATION:

First, make sure you have all the needed ingredients: 8 bags pomegranate green tea, 6 oz. Everclear®, 7 oz. filtered water and 13 oz. white simple syrup. If you don’t have simple syrup on hand and want to make your own, check out our simple syrup instructions.

Combine Everclear®, water and tea bags in a quart-sized, sealable container and let steep for 2 hours, or to taste.

Once steeped, remove tea bags and add simple syrup. Mix thoroughly, bottle and enjoy.

Not sure what to make with it first? Try our Holiday Road Punch.

POMEGRANATE GREEN TEA LIQUEUR

Ingredients:
8 Pomegranate green tea bags
6 oz. Everclear®
7 oz. Filtered water
13 oz. White simple syrup

Instructions:

  1. Combine tea bags, Everclear® and water in a sealable container.
  2. Steep 2 hours.
  3. Remove tea bags and add simple syrup. Mix thoroughly.
  4. Bottle and enjoy.
Prep: 5 mins Steep: 2 hrs
20% Alc./Vol. (80 Proof)
If using Everclear® 151: 15.9% Alc./Vol. (31.8 Proof)
Yield: 24 oz.
Created By: Ted Kilgore

Make It Your Own’s in-house mixologist, Ted Kilgore, is a 17-year veteran of the bar and spirits world. Passing the B.A.R. with BAR Ready certification in 2007, he is now proprietor and Beverage Director at Planter’s House in St. Louis.