Sometimes the internet will take you places you didn’t know you wanted to go to. Like to a page where a Green Tea Martini is mentioned, and then that idea gets stuck in your brain and won’t leave.
That is what happened to me today, and fortunately I had – or thought I had – the right ingredients for the cocktail.
A while ago I picked up a bottle of small batch vodka in a newly opened store in Copenhagen. The guy running the store had distilled it and he has chosen the name The Clumsy Bear for his vodka.
I thought this would be a good cocktail to test the vodka on.
The original recipe calls for a traditional japanese syrup called Kuromitsu made from black sugar. I have no access to that, but I figured instead I would use barley malt syrup for a flavorful sweetener. Also it ties in with the barley malt used in the vodka.
And then I was absolutely sure I had some small packets of powdered green tea – and sure enough at the back of my cupboard I found a stack of packets. Since I have no recollection of ever making green tea from them, I do not know if the powder have become too old and changed color or just are of a different kind than the type Takumi Watanabe uses.
In any event my Green Tea Martini was more of a bog swamp color than the bright green color in the pictured with the original recipe.
Taste wise I like it a lot – it has a dry quality to it which is a bit surprising with 3 cl creme de cacao in it. So maybe I should look for some bright green green tea powder and add it to my repertoire.
- 6 cl vodka
- 3 cl white creme de cacao – I used Bols
- teaspoon powdered green tea
- 1 cl barley malt syrup
I started by stirring the tea into the vodka and then added the other two ingredients, then filled my shaker with ice and gave it a good shake. Owing to the fact that the vodka bottle had a wax seal that had floated a few bits into the bottle I double strained the cocktail.
SOURCE: Ginhound – Read entire story here.