liquored up

I don’t have recipes, but I think there are a thousand possibilities. I would just think tea as mix and go from there.
Think of a version of Long Island Iced Tea – Use a straight black iced tea with gin, vodka, rum, splash of lemon bar mix or lemon juice.
Why couldn’t you do a raspberry, mint iced tea. Muddle fresh raspberries and mint leaves add vodka or gin, cold tea, a bit of soda water and have like a raspberry, mint iced tea spritzer.
Iced white tea with a fruit flavored liqueur?
Ever thought about doing Mimosas using a light citrus tea (instead of orange juice) with champagne?
If you are serving cocktails they should be served in appropriate glassware.
After dinner drinks – I think any bold black tea with chocolate notes would be great hot with amaretto, Frangelico, Grand Marnier etc.
I don’t think there are any rules, just use your imagination….

I will often infuse spirits with tea. For example, I will take a few oz of gin and mix it with lemon herbal tea, let it “marinate” for 24-48 hours. Then I will strain the tea out and make a cocktail using the tea flavoured gin.

Here’s a white tea cocktail recipe we posted on our Facebook page a while back. Hope you like it!

Ingredients:

2 Sprigs of Thyme
1/6 Lemon
.25 oz. of Honey
1.5 oz. of Vodka
3 oz. Chilled Persimmon Tree White Peach tea

Lala, thanks for the advice.

I have an earl grey vodka sitting around now. It’s pretty exciting.

How did you brew the vodka earl?

I used a jam jar, a small amount of vodka & a large amount of our Kenyan Kathryne Earl grey. I sealed it & left it for 24 hours, then strained it.
I added a little sugar, as it was very bitter at this concentration. As it was morning, I haven’t tried it out yet. I also don’t have any soda water, yet. I plan on throwing it into a martini glass with soda water and see how it goes. I guess I’ll know then if I like/want the sugar or if I want more (I added a small spoonful to about 2 cups worth of tea leaves)

So it was cocktail time for me. I found that I had made the infusion too strong, I used about 1-2 shots, when I should have doubled that. I also found that it did go bitter with the long alcoholic steep, so I just added some sugar.

Happy time! At least I am happy.