![]() Runner-up: Gold Peak Sweet Tea + Simply Lemonade (2-to-1 ratio) Unfortunately, that interplay is minimized when this combo is ice cold, which is a shame only because an Arnold Palmer is best enjoyed properly chilled. 3rd Place: Gold Peak Unsweet + Simply Lemonade (2-to-1 ratio)Īs this pairing warms up, the tea and lemonade flavors continuously mingle - the tea takes center stage one moment, while citrus shines the next. Because of that, these two beverages play best together in equal measure, where bright lemon notes shine and the tea smooths out much of the lemonade’s inherent tartness. The moderate sweetness of this lemonade doesn’t overpower the flavor of the tea. 4th Place: Arizona Just Tea + Tropicana Lively Lemonade (1-to-1 ratio) ![]() You could argue that this pairing produces something that tastes more like sweet, lemon-flavored tea, as opposed to a lemonade-tea blend, but it’s the best combination featuring Arizona’s sweet tea, and it delivers honest citrus notes with the necessary acidity. Sean Zak 5th Place: Arizona Sweet Tea + Simply Lemonade (2-to-1 ratio) Lifestyle These drinks backed by pro golfers will quench your thirst on or off the course By: There’s a sharpness to the Nantucket Nectars lemonade that generally didn’t work in most cases, except that with this particular pairing it provides a nice contrast to the round and smooth notes of the unsweet tea. Without further ado, here’s the top six: 6th Place: Pure Leaf Unsweetened + Nantucket Nectars Squeezed Lemonade (2-to-1 ratio) If that sounds like your jam, now you know. If you can imagine a pineapple-flavored gummy bear in liquid form, that’s pretty much what you get. A 2-to-1 ratio of Gold Peak Sweet Tea and Tropicana Lively Lemonade produced a delicious drink - it just didn’t taste like an Arnold Palmer. The challenge then was finding the right lemonade to pair with those teas (and the appropriate amount of it) so that the resulting drink didn’t taste as though it was concocted by Buddy the Elf. In several instances, the flavor of the tea in sweetened examples came through more powerfully than it did in their unsweetened counterparts. Not surprisingly, lemonades crafted from a miniscule amount of natural ingredients - we’re looking at you, Dole and Minute Maid, with your 3% juice - produced mediocre results every time. The overall quality of some combinations was easily predictable based on the overall quality of the individual products, particularly the lemonade. This is especially true for pairings with sweetened tea. In almost all cases, a 2-to-1 ratio of tea to lemonade produced better results. ![]() But before I reveal the top six, it’s worth sharing a handful of observations (some of which may be obvious): In an attempt to make this experiment more approachable, I conducted the taste test in six batches using the tea as a constant, which allowed me to whittle the field of 36 total candidates down to six finalists. With the dozen bottles staring back at me from the countertop of my kitchen island, all that was left to do was start mixing. News Bottom’s up! Here are 11 great golf drinks from 11 high-end golf resorts By: On the lemonade side, I grabbed bottles of Calypso Original Lemonade, Nantucket Nectars Squeezed Lemonade, Dole Lemonade, Minute Maid Lemonade, Tropicana Lively Lemonade and Simply Lemonade. For teas, I bought Arizona Sweet Tea, Arizona Just Tea, Pure Leaf Sweet, Pure Leaf Unsweetened, Gold Peak Sweet and Gold Peak Unsweetened. There was only one way to find out, I surmised, so I ran out to the store and bought six bottles of iced tea and six bottles of lemonade, focusing only on products that are likely to be available nationwide. It was a great TV spot - almost all of those SportsCenter ads were - and it recently got me thinking: What is the best Arnold Palmer recipe? Is it a 2-to-1 ratio as that ESPN commercial suggested? Or does the classic golf clubhouse beverage work better as an equal blend of iced tea and lemonade? And what about the iced tea and lemonade themselves? Surely, some teas and some lemonades will work better together than others. Scott Van Pelt and the late Stuart Scott - both carrying trays - are in line behind The King, and as Palmer and his caddie walk away, Van Pelt whispers, “that was awesome.” Arnie stops at the lemonade and iced tea dispensers grabs a glass then pours a bit of the tea, a bit more lemonade, and finishes it off with another splash of tea. Remember that ESPN commercial for SportsCenter years ago, the one with Arnold Palmer? Palmer and his caddie are in the broadcast company’s cafeteria. What is the best Arnold Palmer recipe? One writer decided to put the ingredients to the test to come up with an answer.
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