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- Blake Lively’s Betty Booze is adding two vodka iced teas, Meyer Lemonade and Passion Fruit
- The brand’s lineup also features tequila and bourbon canned cocktails
- Lively launched Betty Buzz in 2021 with sparkling mixers, later introducing sister brand Betty Booze in 2023
Betty Booze is getting two refreshing additions to its lineup just in time for summer.
Blake Lively announced on Wednesday, June 4, that her beverage brand is launching a pair of vodka iced teas: Meyer Lemonade and Passion Fruit.
“I come from a Southern family, so iced tea, especially in the summertime is a staple,” the actress and entrepreneur tells PEOPLE. “Sweet tea, passionfruit tea, tea with fresh lemonade … it all feels like relaxation and peaceful times. Enjoying an iced tea is a feeling as much as an experience to me.”
Lively initially launched her Betty Buzz brand in 2021 with sparkling mixers, later expanding into tequila and bourbon canned cocktails under Betty Booze in 2023.
“Vodka felt like the perfect next addition to our ‘bar’ lineup because of its subtle and popular flavor,” she adds, calling the spirit “an ideal backdrop to both of our yummy new teas.”
The Betty Booze founder, 37, says all her drinks are meant to be shared.
“I usually think of a barbecue or summer hang outside, even if it’s just with one family member,” she notes, adding that the vodka iced teas don’t require a special occasion.
“Any time you’d have iced tea or an Arnold Palmer with alcohol is the time you’d have this,” she continues. “At a party, dinner at home, at a restaurant, wherever is natural to you. I like seeing friends try both and swapping with each other back and forth as they drink. That’s how you know they’re close.”
Lively recently reprised her role as Emily Nelson in Another Simple Favor, the sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favor.
The actress says the complicated character would opt for the Vodka Tea with Meyer Lemonade.
“Emily had a fabulous wedding in Capri, which is all things lemon,” she notes of the sequel, which was released on Amazon Prime last month.
“Lemons have a sweet spot for all us Capri superfans,” she adds. “Though I think Emily would spike our [ready-to-drink teas] with much more vodka because ours are nice and subtle, and she is neither nice or subtle. Well sometimes she’s nice. But never subtle.”
When Lively — who shares four children with husband Ryan Reynolds — announced the launch of Betty Booze in 2023, she opened up about her inspiration for the spiked seltzers.
“These are the recipes I’ve been making for loved ones for years. But I have 4 kids now. And I’m tired. So here they are in a can. Enjoy. Responsibly…ish,” she said.
“Drinking isn’t my thing. But for f— sake, flavor is,” Lively added on Instagram at the time of the launch. “Homemade recipes. Real fruit. Real ingredients. Quality booze. No crap. Also a real-time saver. Which is why I really did it.”
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