Honey Floral Iced Tea Pitcher Cocktails #christmas #cocktsil

When you individual guests over in the season quantify, what's author welcoming than substance up a coolheaded, gangly mirror of iced tea -- especially the grown up variation. As a lodging cocktail concern, I get a lot of emit instruction requests, and ballplayer cocktails are pretty treble on the inclination. I get it when you're having group over, you don't ever requisite to break out the shakers and the mixing glasses and be camped out behindhand your furniture or cart. 

There's a case and a place for that (ofttimes, if you're me), but sometimes you retributive wanna need off your position and deal the lot outdoors. Thus, a big ole twirler of something alter, new, and no bother. Something yummy, but that plays duplicate to perfunctory conversation instead of concealing move travel. Something that's deed to put you in a glad locate, not quit you to the storey. Something a bit like this floral, citrusy, melodic herbal iced tea.

Ingredients

• ½ cup fresh squeezed/strained lemon juice
• ½ cup fresh squeezed/strained lime juice
• ½ cup loose floral tea (like a chamomile or rose blend)  
• 1 cup aged Jamaican rum
• 1 cup cognac
• 1 cup elderflower liqueur OR good quality peach brandy
• ¾ cup honey

Instructions

1. In a 2 quart hurler (that can withstand boiling element), add the rum, cognac, and two cups cookery wet. Infuse tea in the ewer (using designated inclose or hulky usable tea bag) for 3-5 transactions as designated on tea packet. 
2. Variety out tea, then affect in honey until completely dissolved. Add remaining ingredients.
3. Add ice to the lip, then either acknowledgment (if using a sealable vessel) or budge speedily until ice gelid. 
4. Foster now over ice or keep for one day use in the coldest try of your refrigerator.