Sipdown (410)!
So, this year for the holidays I want to come up with my own cocktail that incorporates each of the five teas in our Winter collection – I actually got the idea from a coworker after a long conversation about tea infused cocktails/possibly doing an outside of the store staff party for those of us who are legal drinking age (which is like 90% of our staff).
I started with this tea in particular because a customer actually made a comment about wanting to find a tea to mix with Amaretto and it just made me have that “epiphany” moment where I knew exactly what to do with this tea. So, I present to you the recipe for the White Cranberry Amaretto Sour!
1. Start with a glass filled with ice cubes OR crushed ice, if you want more of a slush
2. Pour in 2 oz. of Amaretto
3. Pour in 2 oz. of chilled WCB concentrate
4. Pour in the juice of 1/2 a fresh squeezed lemon
5. Garnish with a lemon wedge and Maraschino cherry
6. Stir to mix the ingredients before serving
For the WCB concentrate, I just steeped 1 PS of the tisane in about 3 oz. of boiling water. When you strain everything, it gives you enough concentrate for 2 oz. of the tisane.
Anyway, this works great! If you don’t stir everything up right away you should get a really pretty gradient of colours with the bright, cranberry red in the middle as well! I love Amaretto Sours myself because I think they’re really sweet and smooth, and they remind me a lot of cherry candies. The addition of the cranberry here plays into all those aspects; the tartness of the cranberry works well with the tart lemon, it compliments the almond really well (think the almond/cranberry pairing in Harney & Son’s Boston tea if you want an example of this), it adds a beautiful colour, it’s kind of festive, and it leans in to that sort of cherry type of flavour. I will say, though, that’s it’s fairly sweet so if you have it on hand I’d try adding in a drop (maybe two) of Saline to try and balance out some of the sweetness if sweet cocktails aren’t generally your thing.
While I sipped on mine for like an hour to savor it, I also made one for my mom and she just fucking downed it without a second thought. She really liked it. It’s awesome too ‘cause this tea on it’s own? Yeah, personally I didn’t really like it much at all and neither did she, but this is VERY transformative.
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
