Tea Cocktails

for mixologists with an affinity for herbs

Different ways of making tea cocktails

• Basically Alcoholic Iced Tea

• Tea Infused Cocktails

• Cocktails with Tea Syrup

Basically Alcoholic Iced Tea

• This isn’t Goodbye

  Ingredients

  1 750 ml. bottle dry sparkling white wine

  12 oz. brewed green tea, chilled

  3 oz. fresh lemon juice

  9 oz. honey syrup (2:1)

  Tools:

  punch bowl, ladle

  Glass:

  punch or stemless wine

  Garnish:

  mint leaves, lemon wheels

  preparation

  Mix all the ingredients together in a punch bowl with a large block of ice to chill.

  Garnish with fresh mint leaves and lemon wheels.

• hibiscus tea cobbler

  Ingredients

  1 tsp. grenadine

  1 wheel of lemon, sliced in two

  1 oz. curaçao

  1 oz. cognac

  1 1/2 oz. hibiscus tea

  Tools:

  muddler, barspoon

  Glass:

  Collins

  Garnish:

  lemon wheel, hibiscus flowers, Amarena cherry

  preparation

  In a Collins glass, combine the grenadine and lemon wheel and muddle

  until the oils from the citrus are released into the syrup.

  Add the curaçao, cognac, and hibiscus tea, then fill with crushed ice.

  Stir until the cocktail starts to dilute, then add more ice and garnish.