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June Is National Iced Tea Month: Booze It Up With These Pinterest Tea Cocktail Recipes

Tea may or may not be an integral part of your diet depending on where you're from.

If you're a Brit, we know you're chugging cups of PG Tips all day long.

Southerners: there's probably not a day that goes by without consuming several jugs of sweet iced tea for lunch.

While the herbal beverage isn't quite as important to everyone, it is relaxing and enjoyable -- and a hell of a lot healthier than corn syrup-laden sodas.

Turns out, June is National Iced Tea Month.

And we decided it was about time to revisit the salubrious beverage with some good ole alcohol. We scoured the interwebs (namely Pinterest) in search of boozy iced tea concoctions.

Check them out.

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Raspberry Iced Tea Martini from Martini Chronicles

Ingredients:

Three ounces of Raspberry Sweet Tea Vodka

One ounce of Raspberry-flavored Lemonade (I prefer Simply Lemonade®)

One ounce of Freshly Brewed Tea (Cooled and Sweetened to Taste)

Fresh Raspberries for Garnish

Lemon Wedge for Garnish

Ice

Step One: In a shaker, combine ice, vodka, lemonade, and brewed tea; shake vigorously.

Step Two: Drop fresh raspberries in the bottom of a chilled martini glass, and strain mixture into glass.

Step Three: Garnish with a lemon wedge.

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