We're lucky to have so many great golf resorts in Florida. Even better, if you have a golfer in your life, they can play while you check out the Bay Hill Spa and have lunch at the Clubhouse. He was loved by everyone and truly missed.īay Hill is an amazing golf course, but if you don't play golf, it's still a lovely resort. We were so sad we never got the chance to see him play in person. Palmer's home course, just after he passed. My husband and I played golf at Bay Hill, Mr.
Here's a video of the man himself making his namesake drink:
In fact, SO many people love this concoction that the rights to the Arnold Palmer were sold to the AriZona Beverage company, where it's done very well. Palmer and ordered "that Palmer drink." And that's all she wrote (or said!) Thanks to her, we now have the Arnold Palmer loved by so many! A woman who was sitting nearby overheard Mr. In 1960, he was at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver for the U.S. He liked it so much he decided to take it in a thermos when he was playing golf. In a report in USA Today, it was said he asked his wife to put a little lemonade in the pitcher of iced tea. Palmer said he drank iced tea with lemonade at home all the time. So why is sweet tea and lemonade called an Arnold Palmer, anyway? According to some friends I met at Bay Hill Golf Club, Mr. Not an iced tea fan? Try this Mango Mimosa instead. So that’s a B- from the king can and a B+ if you’ve got a glass and some ice handy.If you live in the South as we do, summertime is all the time! We love our tea around here, especially when it's boozy, like this Ice Tea Whiskey Slush! It's one of our favorites! The alcohol is more apparent and that acidic tang is a lot more noticeable when it’s surrounded by aluminum. We need more of them.ĭrinking straight from the can rather than on ice does seem to hurt the overall experience. It’s very easy to drink, which is useful since it comes in a 24 ounce king can. It’s unsweet, but tempered by the sugar (adjacent) taste of its colleague.Īrnold Palmer does a great job of avoiding the bile-y, too-acidic undercurrent that makes Twisted Tea so unpleasant. The tea shines a little more strongly than the lemonade.
There’s a little bit of malty booze, sure, but for the most part this tastes like the regular, non-alcoholic thing. It looks just like a regular Arnold Palmer but smells appropriately boozy - like there’s a little extra acidic tang on those lemons.
#ARNOLD PALMER DRINK SPIKED CRACK#
He’s right there on the can - signature and trademark multi-colored umbrella and all.ĭoes it live up to the Palmer standard? Is it at least as good as the Arizona Iced Teas that bear his name? Let’s crack this can. But Arnie’s estate is branching out, so what we’ve got is the officially branded Arnold Palmer spiked bevvy. Add some vodka or bourbon or Southern Comfort to it and you’ve got what I’d always heard as a John Daly. Arnold Palmer’s pour of choice, a half lemonade, half iced tea glass of simple pleasure, has always been a fertile spot to plant booze. This week’s sipper combines those worlds. Golf, much like watching baseball or playing slow-pitch softball, is much better with a beverage. Until I became an adult and realized you could spend most of your round with a drink in your hand. There were plenty of weekends lost to the Travelers Championship or Greater Milwaukee Open as a kid.Īs a result, I spent some time at the driving range, walked some municipal courses with some flea market knock-off clubs and was generally indifferent toward golf. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage that pairs well with sports. Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series.
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