Who Makes Arizona Iced Tea?
Contrary to popluar belief, Arizona iced tea is not made by Jesus himself. The first can of Arizona Iced Tea was sold in 1992 in Queens, New York. The company is owned by Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons, who to that point mostly sold malt liquor and beer, such as Crazy Stallion and Mississippi Mud. They still produce the teas to this day, and have expanded to juices, and energy drinks. I find it suspicious that a company who specialized in malt liquors decided to start brewing tea. If you know your beers, then you know that beers are either “top fermented” or “bottom fermented.” Porters, ales, and stouts are top fermented and malt liquor is bottom fermented, which means the wort (the resulting brew of malt, prepared cereals like corn or rice, hops and water) is fermented by yeast of the bottom fermentation type (i.e. yeast which settles to the bottom of the fermenting tanks). Top fermenting yeast does the opposite. Malt liquor is made from a wort containing a high percentage of fermentable
