Iced!
This was such an interesting blend, and I’m actually nearly out of it already which is kind of saddening to me. I tried it iced because, looking at the ingredient list, I thought it might make me think of ginger beer or other ginger beer based cocktails – and honestly I was sort of right! It has that exact type of zesty ginger heat, but balanced by the natural sweetness and acidity of the lime addition – like a Moscow Mule, sort of.
The fun twist is the honeydew and coconut combination. The creaminess from the coconut is very subtle, but it adds so much depth to the overall profile and immediately gives this profile a tropical kind of flair. I could picture myself drinking this iced tea out of a coconut! The honeydew was interesting too. I never would have thought to try honeydew with ginger, but it was so cooling and refreshing and something about the overall composition of flavours brought out the greener and more “vegetal” notes of the melon rind without actually sacrificing on the mellow sweetness of the melon flesh itself. It also, a little bit, felt like there was fresh muddled cucumber in the drink.
This was kind of instantly the perfect nuanced, fresh feeling summer iced tea profile and it felt so damn fancy and high brow. Like, I could see a cocktail with the same ingredient inspirations and flavour balance easily costing like $25 as part of a Summer drink menu at a cool and trendy bar. Really unique!