So, I’m day drinking today – which is fine, because I don’t work today or have any sort of commitments. My little sister was over throughout the weekend, and I feel weird drinking at home when she’s around (responsible sister mode?) so I waited until today to try out a few cocktail ideas…
The first one was this one – I don’t really have a fancy name for it but I guess you could call it something like a Hawaiian Peach Punch Matcha Spritz? Yeah… Yeah! That totally works; basically highlights all the key components here, I think.
So, I started with an empty glass and a lime wedge, which I rubbed against the rim of the glass, and then rolled in a tiny bit of matcha powder to rim the glass. Then I filled it with iced. Once the ice was added in I then added an ounce of white rum. Then, in a separate bowl I took a heaping perfect spoon of matcha powder and whisked it really well in three ounces of peach schnapps. Not a perfect matcha spoon, mind you – but the regular one. Then I poured that into the cup of ice and rum. Then, I took a quarter of a lime and squeezed that into the cup. Finally, I topped everything up with water I’d carbonated with our soda stream. Finally, I used the wedge I’d started off with to garnish the glass! Tada! You have a cocktail!
This one comes off a little potent; there’s a good four ounces of booze in this, after all! The flavour is really nice though; a strong mix of fruit punch notes from the matcha and sweet, juicy peach which compliments each other very well. The lime is more subtle, but adds a nice tartness/crispness in addition to that faint citrus flavour. And the soft carbonation is really pleasant. Plus, since we’re using water for a large enough portion of the drink (like a third of it) it kind of acts as a press, so you could slug a few of these back if you wanted to and get more water without as much of a hangover the next day. Just throwing it out there. Personally, I’m just sticking to one, though.
You could also really easily substitute in a different fruity flavour of matcha for a different profile. Peach Matcha would obviously be a very peach heavy taste, and I think the Honeydew, Mango, or Strawberry would work quite well too. Probably the blueberry, too. I’m not as sure about the Berries & Cream – I don’t know how introducing a cream element would go. I will say, I actually really like DAVIDsTEA’s matcha specifically for this sort of cocktail because the sugar in them does add some sweetness that I think makes them a little more palatable/easy to sip on without feeling the alcohol as much. While I think RLT’s Kiwi Matcha or other fruity flavours would probably work really nicely with this set up you’d probably also want to add in some simple syrup as well. This way, you get to skip the simple syrup.
So yeah – day drinking!
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts regarding the teas, and not the company’s.