Green Tea Gin Cooler
A long, crisp green tea cocktail with gin, lemon and honey, smoothed by cooled Tetley Pure Green. Easily made alcohol free.
Green Tea Gin Cooler is a long, crisp cocktail that uses cooled green tea as its base, so the botanicals in the gin meet a smooth, slightly grassy backbone rather than just tonic. Lemon and a little honey syrup sharpen it up, and soda keeps it light enough to drink in the sun.
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Serves one. Brew the green at 80C and chill it well first, the same care you would give a plain cup, because a bitter brew shows through even in a cocktail. To make it alcohol free, drop the gin and lengthen it with more soda and a few slices of cucumber.
You'll need
- 1 tea bag of Tetley Pure Green Tea
- 100ml just off boil water cooled to about 80C (boil, then rest the kettle for roughly 90 seconds)
- 50ml gin
- 15ml fresh lemon juice
- 15ml honey syrup (equal parts honey and warm water, stirred until smooth)
- Chilled soda water to top
- Ice, plus a lemon twist and mint to serve
Method
- Rest the boiled kettle for about 90 seconds, then steep one bag in 100ml of roughly 80C water for 3 minutes. Lift the bag out without squeezing and chill the tea well.
- Fill a shaker with ice and add the cooled green tea, gin, lemon juice and honey syrup.
- Shake hard for about 10 seconds, then strain into a tall glass filled with fresh ice.
- Top with soda water and garnish with a lemon twist and a sprig of mint. For an alcohol free version, leave out the gin and add more soda and a few cucumber slices.
- Pinch the lemon twist over the glass before dropping it in so its oils spray across the top and lift the aroma.
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Brewed with: Tetley Pure Green Tea, 50 Tea Bags 100g
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