Tea Cocktails: A Mixologist's Guide to Legendary Tea-Infused Cocktails
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Seventy-five unique cocktail recipes featuring the hottest trend in mixologytea!
In classy bars and cocktail lounges across America, tea is making a big splash. Absolut has launched a line of tea-infused vodka, companies such as Owl’s Brew are springing up with teas crafted specifically as cocktail mixers, and foodie magazines such as Saveur and Food & Wine are featuring hot chai toddies and gin-spiked iced teas. Here organic tea company Teatulia partners with Gehring to provide a stunning collection of hot and cold tea cocktail recipes sure to impress any mixologist or tea lover. Learn how to balance the unique flavors of herbal and black teas with just the right spirits to create drinks such as:
Rooibos Berry Daiquiri
Spiked lemonade with thyme
Dark and stormy with ginger tea
Lemongrass mojito
Chai white Russian
Peppermint cosmo
Jasmine green tea julep
Yerba mate smoky martini
Riesling jasmine hot toddy
And many more!
Teatulia brings to the book the same passion they bring to their teas, which are grown in a single USDA-certified organic garden in northern Bangladesh and sold across the United States and Canada. With beautiful photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, this is the perfect gift for the bartender, budding mixologist, or tea enthusiast in your life.
Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Abigail R. Gehring
Abigail R. Gehring is the author of several cookbooks including Healthy Gluten-Free Diet and The Complete Juicer. Her love of tea started early in life and was cemented after a stint living in England. She lives in Marlboro, Vermont.
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Tea Cocktails - Abigail R. Gehring
Photos and text copyright © 2014 by Abigail R. Gehring
Content and recipe contributions by Teatulia® Organic Teas
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Cover design by Jenny Zamanek
Cover photos by Abigail R. Gehring
Print ISBN: 978-1-63220-449-3
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63220-760-9
Printed in China
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
TEA 101
TIPS FOR PERFECT TEA COCKTAILS
RECIPES
LIGHT AND FRUITY COCKTAILS
SWEET AND SPICY COCKTAILS
DARK AND SMOKY COCKTAILS
WARM AND TOASTY COCKTAILS
HOMEMADE BITTERS AND SIMPLE SYRUPS
TEA-INFUSED APPETIZERS
GLOSSARY
SOURCES
ABOUT TEATULIA ORGANIC TEAS
ABOUT ABIGAIL GEHRING
INDEX
CONVERSION CHARTS
Foreword
Welcome to the wonderful world of tea cocktails!
At Teatulia, we are bringing best-quality organic teas to the world for enjoyment in the traditional (hot) fashion. But we are also seeking to make tea relevant
for all elements of our society at all times of day.
Tea is tremendously versatile, contributes to a healthy lifestyle, and has flavor elements that allow it to pair beautifully with food and spirits. So we figured a book of cocktails would inspire everyone from mixologists to tea experts to neighborhood bbq aficionados to steep some tea, experiment, and enjoy!
We hope you love this book and that it gives you a greater appreciation and affection for the beautiful, timeless Camellia sinensis and all of its herbal friends.
Cheers!
Linda Appel Lipsius
CEO and Co-Founder of Teatulia Organic Teas
Introduction
In classy bars and cocktail lounges across America, tea is making a big splash. The only real surprise here is that using tea in cocktails didn’t catch on much sooner! Why didn’t more people say, Hey, we should try putting some tea in that Long Island iced tea!
? With such a range of flavors—from sweet and spicy chai to dark and smoky yerba mate—tea is an ideal mixer. It offers nuanced complexity to your cocktails that you simply can’t achieve from most traditional cocktail mixers, especially commercially-produced syrups that tend to have overpowering artificial flavor. My first sip of a tea cocktail was, quite honestly, startling—I had thought it might just taste like a watered down mojito, when instead it was brilliantly refreshing, vibrant, and layered with subtle but luscious flavors.
The recipes in this book focus on using healthful ingredients such as fresh fruit juice, herbs, and natural sweeteners, both to give you the best possible flavor and to complement the health benefits of the tea. Enjoyed in moderation, tea cocktails can give your body a boost!
Teatulia Organic Teas is passionate about more than just tea—they care deeply about sustainable gardening practices and social responsibility. Started in 2000 to give back to the community in Bangladesh, they sought an enterprise that would give the Bangladeshi people a living wage while protecting/strengthening the environment. Not content with the social programs already in place in their community, Teatulia's cooperative, the KS Foundation, has established revolutionary education, health, and cattle-lending programs for the people working in the garden and surrounding areas. All sales of Teatulia Organic Teas contribute to this mission, helping to better the lives of Bangladeshi men, women, and children while rebuilding the local ecosystem. It is an honor to work with such a forward-thinking company on this book.
So put a pot on to boil and call up a friend—it’s time for a grown-up tea party!
—Abigail R. Gehring
Tea 101
Tea is one of the oldest herbal remedies in existence, dating back more than 4,700 years when infusions of the plant Camellia sinensis were first brewed in China. Although modern medicine has overshadowed many of the ancient cure-alls of our ancestors, the benefits of tea still remain relevant today.
FIRST THINGS FIRST: DEFINING TEA
It’s important to understand exactly what qualifies a beverage as tea.
Officially, tea
refers to black tea, green tea, white tea, oolong tea, or pu-erh tea. The common link between these five categories is that they are each made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. Herbal teas
aren’t actually scientifically considered teas at all because they do not come from the Camellia sinensis plant, though they may be commonly referred to as such. These kinds of teas or infusions include chamomile or peppermint, which are made using a variety of different plants with varying nutritional values.
THE FABULOUS FIVE
What makes the five types of teas distinct from one another? The preparation and maturity of tea leaves determine both the flavor and the nutritional content of each type. The leaves used to make black tea are both wilted and fully