Rooibos Old Fashioned (Adult Cocktail)

teas.co.uk · 10 min · Serves 1

You'll need

• 60ml bourbon or rye whiskey
• 15ml rooibos honey syrup (see step 1)
• 2 dashes Angostura aromatic bitters
• 1 dash orange bitters, optional
• A large ice cube, an orange peel and a cocktail cherry, to garnish
• For the rooibos honey syrup: 2 Tetley Redbush Pure rooibos tea bags, 100ml boiling water, 100g runny honey

Method

1. Make the syrup: steep 2 rooibos bags in 100ml boiling water for 8 minutes, squeeze and discard the bags, stir in 100g honey until fully dissolved, then cool. It keeps for 2 weeks in the fridge.
2. Add the bourbon, 15ml of the rooibos honey syrup and the bitters to a mixing glass filled with ice.
3. Stir, do not shake, for about 30 seconds until well chilled and lightly diluted; stirring keeps an old fashioned clear and silky.
4. Strain over one large ice cube in a chilled rocks glass.
5. Express an orange peel over the surface, skin side down, to release the citrus oils, then drop it in with a cocktail cherry.
6. Zero alcohol version: replace the bourbon with 60ml cold strong rooibos plus 10ml lemon juice, keeping the syrup and bitters, or a non alcoholic bitters.

Recipe: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/cocktails/rooibos old fashioned adult cocktail/