Name: Coronation G and Tea
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Overproof gin; 15 ml Fino sherry; 15 ml Pineapple juice; 15 ml Chai tea (cold); 15 ml Honey and water syrup

Coronation G & Tea
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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Beefeater Crown Jewel Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
¹⁄₂ oz	Pineapple juice
¹⁄₂ oz	Chai tea (cold)
¹⁄₂ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of something British such as skewered honey comb, Scottish shortbread rested across rim or mini Cornish scone.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Beefeater Crown Jewel, a suitably regal 50% alcohol-by-volume gin, provides the flavoursome backbone to this honeyed pineapple and Chia tea-flavoured cocktail with bone-dry fino sherry balancing the rich honey and contributing vinous complexity.

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Variant:

Coronation Cocktail (Jacques Straub's)
Coronation Cocktail No. 1
Coronation Cocktail (Old Waldorf-Astoria's)

History:

Created in April 2023, to celebrate the coronation of Charles III, by yours truly at The Clocktower, Rye, England.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Coronation G & Tea contains 197 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
18.21% alc./vol. (36.42° proof)
20 grams of pure alcohol

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Mr Gruff

19th December 2025 at 17:57

Where the recipe calls for "Chai latte tea" does this really mean a milk-based spiced tea, or does it just mean chai tea infused in water. Seems like milk would curdle in the alcohol and pineapple (although now I'm curious to try changing the quantities and try a clarified milk-punch variant).

Simon Difford

20th December 2025 at 05:56

Should be Chai Tea - no milk. Many thanks for bringing to my attention.

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