Name: G and Tea
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 30 ml Elderflower liqueur; 30 ml Cold black tea; 60 ml Tonic water

G & Tea
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz	Elderflower liqueur
1 oz	Cold black tea
2 oz	Thomas Henry Tonic Water

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.
SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring tonic water.
Garnish with lemon slice.

Review:

Dry, floral, long and refreshing.

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History:

Created in 2006 by yours truly in London, England.

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Nutrition:

One serving of G & Tea contains 198 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
10.94% alc./vol. (10.94° proof)
18 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Ian Lockley

9th May at 18:03

Hi Simon, is it tonic as in the ingredients, or soda as in the instructions?

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Paloma Difford

9th May at 20:15

Hi Ian, thanks for spotting this. It should be tonic water and Simon has now corrected the method.

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G. M. Genovese

9th September 2024 at 20:18

Up the tea measure equal to the gin and reduce the elderflower to 20 ml and then it's getting somewhere. St. Germain demands so much attention.

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Paul Holdsworth

17th April at 16:50

This sounds like a good steer - I'll be upping the tea and easing back on the elderflower next time. Maybe it's down to how much the drinker is a tea lover!

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James R

7th July 2024 at 23:13

Delicious. As it says on the tin - dry and floral, long and refreshing. I used my home-made tonic syrup and shook with everything, and then topped with a couple oz of soda.

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John Hinojos

24th September 2023 at 00:29

Perfectly refreshing. The cold tea adds a light falvour which is nicely offset by the Elderflower. Used a locally made San Diego gin which has aromatics from the area. It has a nice strong flavour which held up with all the other ingredients.

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