Alcoholic teas
Innovation by Ivo Bierands
26/11/23
WARNING: You must be 18 years old or older to try these tea recipes.
I would not recommend drinking more than one cap at a time, because it might make you sick.
Also, it would be good not to drive a car or use mechanical instruments as these teas contains alcohol.
Specific tea brands I have used are only guidelines. You can pick your favourite tea brand and make your brew.
Black tea with red vine & sugar
Recipe:
1 bag of black tea
210ml boiling water
20 ml red vine (12%)
0.5 teaspoon of sugar
Brewer's advice: Let the tea brew for 3 - 5 minutes.
Taste: It has a strong bitter flavour with a soft sour aftertaste. It leaves a dry mouth.
Smell: It has a pleasant vine with tender bitterness
Colour: Amber
Additional info: Tea can make you feel lightheaded.
I added 40ml of vine to feel better taste, but it made me feel unpleasant to drink. I would recommend staying with 20ml vine.
There is no need to use exactly this red vine as it is a guideline for your recipe. You can use any red vine as long as it is the same percentage.
As longer black tea bag will be infused in the water as stronger bitter flavour gets.
26/11/23
Black tea with white vine
Recipe:
1 bag of black tea
200ml boiling water
30ml 12.5% white vine
Brewer's advice: Let the tea brew for 3 - 5 minutes.
Taste: It has a dominant bitter flavour with tender vine sourness. The mouth goes dry after drinking it. Overall it tastes neutral, lightly warming up the throat.
After a while it made me feel pleasantly lightly headed.
Smell: It has a beautiful aroma of vine and an amazingly good smell (5/5).
Colour: Clear dark amber
Additional info: There is no need to use exactly this white vine as it is only as a guideline for your recipe. You can use any white vine you like.
As longer black tea bag will be infused in the water as stronger bitter flavour gets.
03/12/23
Green tea with red vine
Recipe:
2 bags of Tesco green tea
200ml hot water
30ml 13% red vine
Brewer's advice: Let the tea brew for 3 - 5 minutes.
Taste: Gently sour with tender green tea flavour. In the aftertaste, there is lingering bitterness that leads to dry mouth.
Smell: It has a beautiful smell of red vine and it is possible to feel alcohol in it.
Colour: Dark red.
Additional notes: I think the ingredients there were nicely balanced and I would not change in this recipe anything.
It appeared as a lovely tea that is not too sour or too bitter either.
16/12/23
Green tea with wite vine
Recipe:
2 bags of Knightsbridge green tea
200ml hot water
30ml 12.5%white vine
Brewer's advice: Let the tea brew for 3 - 5 minutes.
Taste: This taste took me by surprise. It has a lovely balanced bitterness with a white vine sour flavour. The brew leaves a dry mouth and long-lasting sourness in the aftertaste.
Smell: Pleasant sour (5/5)
Colour: Greenish yellow.
Additional notes: It has a perfect match of the quantity of the ingredients, so I would not change anything anymore.
I almost nominated this tea as a Must tried tea.
13/12/23