Our today’s color theme is green and we have matcha to help us with this!
Matcha is a powder, really fine grounded, made out of specially grown and processed green tea and if you want to read more about it you can find all the information here.
For our cocktails:
- How to prepare your matcha for these amazing cocktails: add a teaspoon of matcha in your mug and pour 10 ml of boiling water in your mug. Stir well, you can use a spoon or the chasen (the wooden whisked like matcha stirrer ). Keep adding water until your mug is full. (150 ml of water in total). Leave it to get cold.
Let’s get to it.
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Tropical green
Ingredients
- 50 ml coconut vodka
- 25 ml coconut rum
- 75 ml cold coconut milk
- 75 ml matcha
- Ice: cubes and crushed
- Garnish: coconut flakes, corn syrup
Tools
- Shaker
- Cocktail strainer
- Tea strainer
- Rocks glass
The how to
First we prepare the glass. We stir the rim in the corn syrup and then we do the same thing in the coconut flakes. In the shaker we add our matcha, milk rum and vodka. Add the ice and shake. Double strain it over crushed ice in your glass.
Matcha mojito
Ingredients
- 50 ml rum
- 25 ml fresh lime juice
- 10 ml green apple syrup
- 7 Mint leaves
- 10 ml soda water
- Matcha
- Ice: crushed
- Garnish: mint leaves
Tools
- Muddler
- Bar spoon
- Collins glass
The how to
In your glass add the mint leaves, green apple syrup and lime juice and muddle the mint leaves gently. Add the ice and top the glass(leave space for the water) with your matcha tea and stir well. Add the soda water and garnish with the mint leaves.
Forest fairy
Ingredients
- 50 ml Absinthe
- 25 ml fresh lime juice
- 2 dashes Grapefruit bitters
- 70 ml Matcha tea
- Ice
- Garnish : dry orange wheel
Tools
- Shaker
- Cocktail strainer
- Tea strainer
- Coupe glass
The how to
In your shaker add the absinthe, fresh lime juice, the bitters and the matcha tea. Add ice and shake well. Double strain it in your coupe glass and garnish with a dry orange wheel.