Moon Over Uji
A Japanese-inspired sour: green-tea-infused gin and junmai sake with lychee, ginger liqueur, honey and lemon, shaken with egg white and finished with a crescent moon of matcha dusted over the foam.
6ozCoupe holds 6 oz of liquidStemmed, served up. The liquid is the whole drink.Build
| Fresh lemon juice | ¾ oz20 ml⅝ oz20 ml⅞ oz25 ml1 ¼ oz35 ml1 ½ oz45 ml1 ¾ oz50 ml |
| Lychee syrup | ¼ oz7.5 ml⅜ oz10 ml½ oz15 ml⅝ oz20 ml |
| Honey Syrup (1:1) | ¼ oz7.5 ml⅜ oz10 ml½ oz15 ml⅝ oz20 ml |
| Ginger liqueur | ½ oz15 ml⅜ oz10 ml⅝ oz20 ml¾ oz20 ml1 oz30 ml1 ¼ oz35 ml |
| Junmai sake | 1 oz30 ml¾ oz20 ml1 ¼ oz35 ml1 ⅝ oz50 ml2 oz60 ml2 ⅜ oz70 ml |
| Green Tea-Infused Gin | 1¼ oz35 ml1 oz30 ml1 ½ oz45 ml2 oz60 ml2 ½ oz75 ml3 oz90 ml |
| Egg white | ½ oz15 ml⅜ oz10 ml⅝ oz20 ml¾ oz20 ml1 oz30 ml1 ¼ oz35 ml |
Rescaled to your 1 oz30 ml pour. Written around 1¼ oz35 ml.
Rescaled to your 1 ½ oz45 ml pour. Written around 1¼ oz35 ml.
Rescaled to your 2 oz60 ml pour. Written around 1¼ oz35 ml.
Rescaled to your 2 ½ oz75 ml pour. Written around 1¼ oz35 ml.
Rescaled to your 3 oz90 ml pour. Written around 1¼ oz35 ml.
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Preparations
Place 1 ½ cups of water in a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Add 1 ½ cups honey and cook until it is just runny. Remove the pan from heat and let the syrup cool before using or storing.
Pour a 750 ml bottle of gin into a jar and add two plain green tea bags. Seal it and leave it at room temperature for 12 to 24 hours, moving or swirling the jar gently now and then. Strain through a fine-mesh strainer lined with cheesecloth, return it to a clean bottle, and keep it in the fridge.
Method
- Add everything to a shaker without ice. Junmai is pure-rice sake with no added flavor, and Roku is the gin the original infuses.
- Dry shake for 10 seconds.
- Add ice and shake for another 10 seconds.
- Double strain into a coupe.
- For the moon, hold a clean bar coaster over about two-thirds of the glass and lightly dust matcha over the foam left uncovered, leaving a crescent. The matcha is optional; it adds aroma and a last note of green tea.
Recipe by Brandon of B Rocka Cocktails (@b_rocka.cocktails (opens in a new tab)). View the original post (opens in a new tab) on Instagram.
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