Dry January 2024 – Saints Preservus
Last, but not least, I am featuring a non-alcoholic cocktail I came up with last year, but only got around to try now. The drink features some trending ingredients and also sticks to the theme of this year’s Dry January – tea.
I built the drink around Greek mountain herb tea, which as it turns out is featured in high-quality tea shops now. Basically, I created a Fizz style cocktail with Aqua Faba as a foamer. Yet, I replaced the plain soda water with high quality lemonade.
Preserved lemons
At the last minute, I switched from a combination of lemon and lime juice to just lime and a barspoon of preserved lemon. I simply ran out of lemons and thought the salinity of the fermented lemon would work great in the cocktail.
1,5 cl Lime Juice
2,25 cl Honey Mix
1,5 cl Aqua Faba
Top off with Frizz Lemonade
Shake – strain – chilled Highball glass over ice cubes – top off;
Garnish: No Garnish;
Song: Daughter – Youth;
At first the ‘Youth’ tastes like high-quality bitter lemon. Yet, after a short while the herbal notes of the tea and a slightly salty taste develop. The Aqua Faba leaves an almost buttery mouthfeel. All in all, the drink goes down very easy, even for a non-alcoholic drink.
