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

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1 fl oz

Elderflower liqueur

1 fl oz

Cold black tea

2 fl oz

Thomas Henry Tonic Water

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.

Method

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring tonic water.

Garnish

Garnish with lemon slice.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of G & Tea contains 198 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
10.94% alc./vol. (21.87° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Matt Premium Member 1y

The highball presentation allows flavor notes from most of these (flavor rich) ingredients to emerge. The elderflower is very prominent here, but the dry gin botanicals and the tonic water/quinine are also clearly expressed. Black tea is tough to pick out. Not refreshing, IMO, but it is tasty - strong elderflower presentation should appeal to someone who likes that liqueur (and is reason for people who dislike it to avoid the cocktail).

Ian Lockley Premium Member 1y

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

Paloma Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

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

Ian Lockley Premium Member 1y

I guessed that and that is what I used

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 2y

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.

Paul Holdsworth Premium Member 1y

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!

James R 2y

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.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

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.