Name: Earl Grey MarTEAni
Total time: 8 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised)

Earl Grey MarTEAni
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Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin tea infused
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₂ oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer or Aquafaba or Vegan egg white alternative

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Martini glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
INFUSE gin with black tea (preferably Earl Grey). Rather than infuse a whole bottle, you can instead pour just 120ml (4oz) dry gin (enough for two cocktails) into a small glass with one Earl Grey tea bag for 5 minutes at room temperature to achieve the desired flavour extraction. (Any longer and tannins can be overly dominant.)
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) - Eggs

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A fantastic and very English cocktail created by a New Yorker. The gin botanicals combine harmoniously with the flavours and tannins of the tea.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2000 by Audrey Saunders at Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle, New York City.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Earl Grey MarTEAni contains 192 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
16.16% alc./vol. (16.16° proof)
18.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Andre Derailleur

2nd June at 07:39

I previously searched for earl grey tea as an ingredient and this cocktail didn’t come up because earl grey isn’t in the list of ingredients.

To Owens

29th April at 01:42

make the sugar syrup with the tea bag instead... put the teabag and sugar into a cup and add boiling water, stir to dissolve sugar and bob's your uncle!

Rin Cheung

9th May 2024 at 02:36

what should I do if I wana infuse a hole bottle of 700ml's'gin with the tea bags…is that means I should put 10 package in to the gin??

Russell Lee

9th May 2024 at 03:11

Different tea bags may vary, but I'd stick with using about 4 tea bags for a full bottle of gin, and letting it steep for about 2 hours before checking in on it to see how it tastes (I've seen elsewhere to not go further than 8 hours of steeping). Using 10 tea bags is quite a lot - you can always add more and adjust as you go, and not so much the other way around (unless you have more bottles of gin around to water it down! Alternatively, you can always cut open the tea bags if you really want to get exacting with it - even then, 4 tablespoons of tea to steep for 2 hours (and up to 8 hours) will do it!

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Dávid Ugróczi

8th March 2024 at 23:24

As someone who loves tea, especially Earl Grey, this was a real treat for me. I used Dilmah loose leaf tea for infusion, it was amazingly delicate.

Ace Taylor

31st December 2023 at 23:33

Wow. I've been looking for ways to incorporate my love of tea into cooking and drinks for a long time and this is incredible! The earl grey is fragrant and comes through whilst keeping the drink well balanced. Well done Mr Difford!

Russell Lee

30th December 2023 at 04:24

A minor thing for anyone infusing in smaller servings - some of that gin's measurments will end up staying absorbed inside the tea bag, so if you're infusing 2 or 4 oz, you're probably going to end up losing 0.2 or 0.4 oz of gin to the infusion. You could squeeze every last drop of gin from tea bag, but a warning that you'll over-extract tannins and bitterness doing this. Just make sure you add a tiny splash more gin for your infusion at the start to avoid this (or just do larger servings).

Seán Cassidy

14th December 2023 at 22:58

One of my favourite drinks ever. Like Peter below I've just tried this with Lady Grey and agree it's perhaps a little more understated than Earl (although I suspect there's probably not a great deal between any black tea used, anyone tried this with PG Tips yet?!)

And thanks for including the advice on infusing smaller quantities Simon, all the other recipes I've seen insist on using an entire bottle which isn't terribly practical for the home drink-mixer...!!

Simon Difford

15th December 2023 at 11:17

Thanks, Seán. I've updated the "How to make" above to make clearer.

Matt Excell

4th June 2023 at 07:40

Does the 5 minute infusion really work? Most recipes have a full bottle infusing for 2 hours, but is five minutes enough for a single serving? Also, how much tea to use for a single serving? As much as if I was making a regular cup of Earl Grey?

Johan Lundström

20th August 2024 at 23:15

I did 10 minutes - it absolutely works better than the crazy long steeping times you find online, that extract far too many tannins. 5 minutes should be perfectly fine.

I believe the 2-8 hours is taken from cold-brewing tea in water, but water and 80-proof gin have different qualities.

I used my go-to Brokers Gin.

Matt Tench

29th January 2024 at 14:22

You can always (and should) taste. In my case 5 minutes wasn't enough (Twining's Earl Grey) and it needed 6 to better profile the tea.

I tried it with Beefeater and Tanq 10 and also split base of the above (50/50 and 80/20) and in every blind test the Beefeater 100% was preferred (as it's quite taste neutral and the tea was better perceived).

Alessandro Felli

25th May 2023 at 08:16

Hello everyone! I made a similar drink working in London - behind the bar of course. I personally infuse a whole bottle of London Dry Gin (3 bags per litre) then 50ml in, 25ml lemon juice, 15 of rich syrup and I go heavy with the eggwhite (50ml). I called it Earl Grey Flip (even it has no egg yolk in there but sounded great to me!). Still in my drinklists since 2016, it’s been bestseller in Bistrotheque, London.

Marius B

23rd April 2023 at 20:19

I followed the advice of Dave Arnold and tried making it with honey syrup since tea+lemon just begs for honey. It tastes great. Still to try with simple syrup.

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