Firefly Distillery is located on Wadmalaw Island, which is our neighboring island to the north of us, just on the other side of the North Edisto River. Good stuff. 
Firefly Distillery - Wadmalaw Island South Carolina A down-south summer favorite, spiked
Posted Oct 22nd 2008 10:01AM by
Amy McDaniel
Filed under:
Teas,
Vodka,
Southern States,
Spirits,
Summer 
Three of my favorite things converged recently: David Byrne, sweet tea, and booze. Down south, the latter two are common enough on their own, but now Firefly Distillery has combined them with Sweet Tea Flavored Vodka.
I was beyond skeptical when my friend brought a bottle to an outdoor David Byrne show in Atlanta. I'd never even met a canned or bottled sweet tea, or for that matter a flavored vodka, worth spitting at (most necessitate spitting out). I expected something cloying and artificial-tasting.
To my surprise, Firefly exercised remarkable restraint in infusing--or should I say brewing--the vodka with (according to
John T. Edge writing for the
Gourmet blog) local tea and sweetened with regionally appropriate Louisiana cane sugar. Edge calls it hyper-sweet, but by sweet tea standards it really isn't. He also recommends mixing with lemonade, which my friend also suggested. But such doctoring isn't necessary. Water and ice do the trick.
A down-south summer favorite, spiked - Slashfood 
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