For the record, Firefly states categorically that FireFly sweet Tea Vodka is made with real tea and cane sugar in all bottlings. I have no doubt that what you say may be true about some of the brands I mentioned when I wrote this post, I don’t know.
But no so with Firefly, though they do add coloring to ensure the appearance is consistent, like many major brands of all sorts.

1st: None of these brands are ‘infused’ with real tea. Rather they are all sweetened with High-Fructose Corn Syrup and use Caramel Color additive to make it look like it’s tea. NOTE: The bottles that are distributed in the area immediately surrounding the Firefly distillery do contain real tea leaves and but that is not the case for the largest majority of their consumers. This is how Firefly can say it is an all-natural product when that is not necessarily the entire story.

There is a relatively new brand that was born in Austin, Tx and created by the founder of a popular bottled tea brand called Sweet Leaf Tea. Clayton Christopher and Chad Auler (Savvy Vodka) have created a real category leader with Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka. First, they start with a 10x column distilled vodka (which beats most Vodkas on the market), they use premium whole leaf indonesian black tea, and pure cane sugar. and lastly it’s sweetened with clover honey from a beekeeper in Central Texas. http://www.facebook.com/deepeddyvodka

Deep Eddy is currently is only available to consumers in Texas and Louisiana however, I have heard they are growing fast.

That said, until you have tried Deep Eddy you can keep talkin’ up these others, but make no mistake…Deep Eddy is the best hands down.

Huh. I don’t know about the phone number thing, but Firefly is available in over 50% of the liquor stores, at least in the Columbus area. It’s a full proof liquor, so look in the state agencies, not the grocery stores.

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Thanks so much for the info!

Firefly costs twenty bucks here in Ohio, same as the Weed, and five bucks more than Sweet “Carolina”. How’s that compare to you down there. I’m surprised that the straight stuff is bad. I was assuming it would be pretty good, considering. Ohio stocks (yes, the state itself sells all liquor here) two of the flavored Firefly variants, but I haven’t seen them yet.