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Hard Iced Tea for Delivery or Pickup
The Instacart guide to hard tea
About hard tea
Hard iced tea is a smooth flavored malt beverage with a refreshing flavor that makes it easy to consume, even if you don't like the taste of typical alcoholic beverages. Though these drinks are technically beers and produced through fermentation, they don't taste like your usual brew. Hard teas are made with lemon and select teas, which gives them a refreshing flavor.
Hard iced tea typically has about 5% alcohol by volume. This makes it comparable to beer which averages about 4.5% ABV. Hard iced tea has far less alcohol than most wine, which has 11.6% ABV. You can easily add a delicious hard tea to your menu without adding any errands to your agenda by ordering your favorite beverages through Instacart.
Types of hard tea
When you're shopping for hard tea, you'll find that there are many different flavors to choose from. Some options that you might see in your Instacart listings include:
- Traditional Hard Tea: If another flavor isn't specified, hard tea is typically made with iced tea and lemon. This gives it a blander flavor than other types of hard tea, but if you enjoy a regular iced tea in the summer, this alcoholic take on it may offer just the twist you're looking for.
- Half & Half: Hard teas marketed as Half & Half are half iced tea and half lemonade, so you'll enjoy a tangier flavor than a beverage that's primarily tea.
- Fruit Flavored: Many hard teas feature a strong fruity flavor. Raspberry and peach hard tea are very popular, but you may find other options as well, like blueberry, black cherry, huckleberry, mango, or passion fruit.
- Green Tea: Hard green tea has a distinctive taste that's reminiscent of regular green tea. Some describe it as floral or oceanic, while others find it slightly bittersweet.
- Long Island Iced Tea:Â This beverage is significantly different from other hard teas. This is a mixed drink that includes rum, tequila, gin, and triple sec. The ABV usually ranges from 12-22%, so it's important to check the labeling.
How to choose hard tea
Hard teas are typically considered a summer beverage. They have a light flavor that's especially pleasant on a hot, humid day. This is a great drink when you want something light to take along for a day at the beach, a sporting event, or other types of fun in the sun.
If you're pairing hard tea with a meal, carefully consider the flavors that you're putting together. A half-and-half tea with a strong lemon flavor goes well with any meal that pairs well with lemonade. Choose this for your summer cookouts to offset the hearty flavors of hamburgers and hot dogs well.
Lemon and peach flavored hard teas go well with fish or salads. The heavier flavor of a raspberry hard tea is better suited to steak or baked potatoes. You might try a hard green tea with Asian-inspired dishes like sushi, orange chicken, lo mein, or fried rice.
Get the hard tea that you're craving quickly and easily by ordering through Instacart. You can place an order online or through the app for same-day delivery!
Hard Tea Near Me
Buy your favorite Hard Tea online with Instacart. Order Hard Tea from local and national retailers near you and enjoy on-demand, contactless delivery or pickup within 2 hours.
FAQs about hard tea
Yes, you must be at least 21 to purchase hard tea through Instacart. Upon delivery, you must show a photo ID with proof of age to receive alcoholic products from your Instacart delivery driver. Some additional restrictions apply:
- You cannot add special requests to alcoholic beverages like hard tea.
- If the hard tea you selected is out of stock, your Instacart shopper will contact you to discuss a replacement. If they cannot reach you, the Instacart shopper may not substitute this item.
- You cannot replace a nonalcoholic item that's out of stock with a hard tea, so you cannot swap out regular tea for a hard tea.
- Instacart will not deliver hard tea to persons who are visibly intoxicated.
- If you do not meet the delivery requirements, you will receive a refund for the hard tea but may still have to pay the delivery fee, tip, or bottle deposit fee.
Although it takes a lot of equipment to make your own fermented beverages, adding liquor to your favorite tea can be a handy workaround. Some popular options for mixing DIY alcoholic tea-based beverage are:
- Iced tea and vodka.
- Green tea or peach tea and whiskey.
- Black tea and rum.
- Mint tea and bourbon.
You can order all the ingredients for these mixed drinks through Instacart, so you don't have to run to the store as you're planning for a party.
Place your hard tea order through Instacart now and get refreshing beverages delivered to your door in as little as 2 hours!