Tea Cocktail Sipdown (551)!
This is a sipdown that I’m actually really upset about; when this tea first came out I was obsessed with it, and I think it’s still one of my all time favourite DT blends ever. It’s incredibly unique, and I just adored the sweet and overtly floral flavour. I desperately hope it comes back sometime in the future – even if it’s only limited edition. At least that way I’d still get to restock.
I’m happy with how I’m finishing this one off though; I feel like I found a really and creative way to use up the last of the tea leaf and make this a memorable send off.
So, I did this one up as a lightly boozy cocktail with some added fruit flavours. Very simple to do, honestly. I started by muddling five very large strawberries into a mixture of sugar, gin, and blueberry schnapps – three ounces of each of the liquors. At the same time I was doing that, I had three perfect spoons of the tea steeping in nine ounces of near boiling water. After six minutes, I strained everything out into a separate bowl. I also filled a glass with a mixture of ice cubes and frozen blackberries.
From there, I poured two ounces of the strawberry and alcohol mixture into the glass along with three ounces of the tea concentrate. Next I carbonated some water with my soda stream, and I just topped up the glass with the soda water. Easy peasy!
Taste wise, this is awesome! It’s a little boozy but pretty light overall, and it has a great mixture between this sweet, summery ‘mixed berry’ flavour and very floral elderflower. I recently had a pretty killed Elderflower soda pop and that’s definitely what I was inspired by when putting this one together. In fact, if I had any of the soda left I probably would have used that to top up other than just the soda water. But yeah; awesome balance where you can taste all of the ingredients and nothing is lost. My recipe makes three of these cocktails, and I’ve now finished off all three so I’m feeling just a touch tipsy – but so worth it.
Just a fun, fruity and floral Spritzer-y cocktail.
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.
