Tea-infused cocktails are all the rage right now, as we discovered recently in Darjeeling
What’s the next big thing in mixology, you ask? Experts will tell you that tea — yes, you heard that right — tea is indeed the hottest ingredient on the bar counter right now.
A trend best visible at the Indian outposts of Yauatcha, the widely awarded tea and dim sum house from London. Yauatcha India’s mixologists decided to spike their cocktails with a hint of tea, and the results are marvellous. For example, the interestingly named Golden Ging Tea cocktail, is a heady concoction of passion fruit puree, ginger juice, lemon juice, passion fruit syrup, ginger ale and orange bitters. The perfect marriage, however comes in the two star ingredients infused together — second flush Darjeeling tea made by steeping 15 mg of green Pu Erh tea leaves in 700 ml of Ballantine’s Finest whisky for eight hours. This whisky-tea blend seems to have found favour among Yauatcha’s discerning diners across its Indian outlets, the mixologists tell me.
This story is from the December 2018 edition of Business Traveller India.
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