Name: Bourbon Peach Tea
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 500 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1 pound peaches (the riper the better); ¾ cup dark brown sugar; 1 vanilla bean (split lengthwise); 2 cups sugar; 1/2 gallon water; ⅓ cup loose tea (or 4 family sized tea bags); 8 ounces bourbon; 4 ounces Peach Schnapps; 1½ cups peach puree; 3 cups tea (recipe above); Ice; peaches (sliced for garnish); lemon (sliced for garnish)

Peach tea made with real, ripe peaches is mixed with bourbon for a cocktail that is perfect for sharing (or not).

Total time 8 hours 20 minutes

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This bourbon peach tea is the perfect summer cocktail. Sweet, refreshing, and full of ripe peach flavor — and best of all you can make it by the pitcher. This recipe has enough of a bourbon kick to say, welcome to the south, y’all!

This cocktail is meant for adults 21 and over – please drink responsibly.

First Published: April 22, 2016… Last Updated: June 13, 2019

For this recipe you’ll need: peaches, dark brown sugar, vanilla bean, sugar, filtered water, loose leaf black tea, bourbon, peach schnapps, pitcher, ice

2 glasses of bourbon peach tea with a pitcher in the background and title text overlay.

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The Perfect Spiked Sweet Tea!!
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How to Make Bourbon Peach Tea
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Bourbon Peach Tea Recipe
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The Perfect Spiked Sweet Tea!!

Let’s talk about summer in the United States. More specifically, let’s talk about summer in the South.

Hot, muggy, and oppressive– our summers are almost unbearable sometimes. Many of us spend afternoons on the porch where we can catch a cool breeze — and a porch is incomplete without a pitcher of sweet tea.

I’ve taken this sweet tea to another level with the addition of bourbon and peaches. I guarantee that your friends will be asking for this recipe way before the summer is over.

Keep a pitcher of this available for those drop in guests — you’ll probably find that the number of “drop in guests” goes up quite a bit after the first couple of times you serve it.

More Summer Cocktail Recipes

I think that cocktails are made for summer. It’s a time when we tend to be more relaxed (in theory) and spend more time entertaining friends and family (in theory). Even if your idea of the perfect summer afternoon is Netflix and the air conditioning turned down to 52 degrees a cocktail in hand can only make that better, right?

Here are some of my favorites.

Brazilian Iced Coffee is a delicious “spirited” version of one of those chilled, sweet coffee drinks you pay too much for.
Sex in the Driveway is a bright blue tropical tasting cocktail that is perfect by the pool… or turn on some of those old bikini movies from the 1960s and pretend…either way, this is a yummy drink!
Alabama Slammer is a sweet, fruity drink that’s made with Southern Comfort.
Long Island Tea looks like a big, frosty glass of iced tea but in reality it contains some pretty serious ingredients like gin, tequila, rum, and vodka. It’s refreshingly perfect for summer sipping!
Spiked Arnold Palmer -so cool and refreshing- it’s one of those perfect cocktails that will tame the hottest summer day.
Peach Jack Daniels Cocktail is a sweet update on a classic highball.

How to Make Bourbon Peach Tea

Actually the process is pretty simple – it’s making the puree that takes the longest. You could skip a step and use peach nectar if you like but I don’t think it tastes as good.

The day before you’re going to make a big batch of peach puree.
If the pulp bothers you then you’ll need to strain it out in a cheesecloth. It didn’t bother me.
You can also put your tea together the day before if you like.
When you’re ready to make the cocktails just add everything together in a pitcher and give it a good stir.
It just doesn’t get easier than that!

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This pitcher and glass set is perfect for serving your bourbon peach tea! It’s very “southern” to take the tea and glasses out to the porch to sip and watch the world go by. Fresh, bourbon vanilla beans are exactly the right way to take the flavor in this drink right to the top.
Here’s the bourbon peach tea! Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Bourbon Peach Tea Recipe

Cold and refreshing! All you need is a pitcher of this bourbon peach tea, a rocking chair, and a porch…

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