Had a wonderful time at the iLLOGIKA Christmas party yesterday, especially seeing colleagues in person. Thank you all for being you and stay awesome.

#ThankYou #FunTimes #Christmas

ROYAL BUTTERFLY TEA COCKTAIL/MOCKTAIL

This is a cocktail I designed for Ostara based around some gorgeous local products:

Goanna Hut Tea, a company founded by australian indigenous woman and chef Jo-Anne Wolles, Eclipse blend (I bought this from t2tea) and,

McHenry Butterfly Gin, brewed in Tasmania’s Port Arthur.

Both contain native Blue Pea Flower, which releases a deep blue colour that is a universal pH indicator so the addition of lemon juice turns it purple.

The predominant flavour is the teas lavendar creating an amazingly floral lemonade.

8 serves, ~16 standard drinks

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 3 cups water
• 1 cup lemon juice (approx. 5 lemons)
• McHenry Butterfly Pea Gin
• ½ cup Goanna Hut Eclipse Tea
• 2 cups tonic water
• Ice

For the tea you can substitute 2.5tbs of each green tea, blue pea flowers, and lavendar. Both options provide plenty of blue so you can also use any gin of choice.

Method:

• In a pot combine sugar, water, and tea.
• Bring to a boil and the remove from heat, allow to sit covered for 10 minutes.

• Combine lemon juice and tonic water.
• Strain tea mixture through a fine mesh sieve, reserving the blue sugar syrup and throwing out the solids. Chill in fridge.

• Fill glasses with ice. For each glass pour a shot of gin over the ice, then pour in the sugar syrup until the glass is half full.
• Get ready to watch the amazing colour change: slowly pour the lemon mix over a spoon into the glasses to fill. The idea is to reduce mixing with the sugar syrup so a nice ombre is created.

For a mocktail, don’t add the gin.

For a lemonade, replace tonic water with water (and… ditch the gin).

Look after yourselves when drinking alcohol. Have plenty of water too! Xo

旅するモクテル@盛岡市菜園カワトク内

モクテル　→ mock(真似る)＋ cocktail → ノンアルコールカクテル

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