Hopefully, they won't cancel this one, too.

[fancycwabs]

On the advice of the squirrels, I picked up a bottle of Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka last week at Costco, where it was the ridiculously low price of $16.99 for a bottle. It's smooth, has a very nice sweet tea flavor (no lemon or mint, but you could add those if you like), and quite distinctive.
The bottle:


The glass:


Check it out, if you like tea, and vodka. If you dislike either tea or vodka, I'd suggest giving it a pass, as it offers nothing for you. Perhaps their muscadine vodka would be more your speed.

Comments

[piemancer]

*shakeyfist*
Screw my alcoholically conservative state! No everclear, no drive-through daiquiri shops, no booze booths in the mall, no freakin vodka at the grocery store!

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

We don't have those, either, but Costco has a separate section with separate management that circumvents it.

[samethreechords.livejournal.com]

Holy poop. I have GOT to get me some of this stuff.

[piemancer]

Today is just rife with the allure of Booze from Foreign Parts!

[meedja.livejournal.com]

Then, and this is a genuinely confused & concerned question, where do you get your booze from? If the words Gas and Station appear in the answer, I will know the world has gone completely crazy, and will probably go into a rant about stupid laws encouraging drink-driving.

I can't understand America some days.

[roman-mclaze.livejournal.com]

Take my wine
Take my brew
Take my limoncello too

I don't care
I'm still free
you can't take my vodka tea...

[garoux.livejournal.com]

I...I think I love you, melq.

[dimloep-suum.livejournal.com]

I can't understand America most days, and I live here.

[hatgrlstargazer.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Washington, but in some states you get your liquor and wine at officially-designated Liquor Stores. In Pennsylvania these are even state-run, and close early. In New York the Liquor Store isn't allowed to sell you mixers to go with it. Liquor only, get your sours mix (and beer)(and bucket-o-margaritas) at the grocery store.

Here in Ohio, up to a certain proof is at the grocery store, the corner store, everywhere. I get my vodka and rum at the grocery store, but for some reason the last time I wanted to buy Jack Daniels I had to go to a Liquor Store.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Is it the vodka itself, or the hottie-on-a-tire-swing that did it?

[samethreechords.livejournal.com]

I'd say both.

[piemancer]

I can't add much to Hatgirl's accurate and excellent explanation.

Liquor laws vary by state. As Fanghopper and I have lamented elsewhere on the intertubes, Everclear (190 proof, 95% alcohol by volume) is illegal in some states (ours). 151 (it's a kind of rum I know only by the number), which is 151 proof, ha ha, is 75.5% ABV, and is legal here.

Washington & Oregon, the only two states where I've lived, both sell beer & wine at grocery stores, convenience stores, and, yes, gas stations. In my youth in oregon, they'd stop selling beer & wine at 2:00 AM, if they were even open then. I've noticed no such frippery in recent years.
Liquor comes from the, yup, state franchised liquor store. Mixers & tools are available at liquor stores; most also have wines. The hours are set by the state, and they're closed on Sund'y.

On a few delightful trips to Califonia, I visited the booze in the grocery store, right by the cereal. You can use cupons for it, even.
On a recent road trip, I realized I was in a new state when I filled the gas tank, paid the cashier, and noticed racks and racks of liquor behind her. "Is this Nevada already?" I asked. Yup.

I've heard tell of some states that sell no alcohol at the grocery store. The liquor sells at the liquor store, but if you want beer or wine, you have to go to rhe beer store. A completely different establishment.

And before you go shakin' your head too much, we didn't invent the freakin' puritans, missy.

[meedja.livejournal.com]

The silliest thing about that is 151. 151 is made in the Dominican Republic, amongst other places (I think there's a few licenses for the name), and they were quite clear with us at the distillery that you're fine to buy & drink it in the DR, but the FAA/CAA view 151 as an explosive, and you can't take it on an aircraft. But you can buy it once you get back home.

Come and live in the UK. We sell it all in the supermarket, next to the breakfast cereals and munchies.

[piemancer]

Yes, where it's civilized!

I'd like to think it's because you dumped the Puritans on us. ;)