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The butterfly
“This dynamic cocktail is the abracadabra of the cocktail world. Because of
an unstable enzyme in the Butterfly tea, when citrus hits the drink it actually
Cocktail Tasting starts to change the color and flavor. Enjoy how the color turns from a dark rich
Notes: blue to a beautiful striated green color. I like to think of this as an evolving
cocktail. Like any great destination becomes a wonderful experience, here we
- Very light, very get to be part of the cocktails own Chrysalis.
refreshing The story of the magical tea is wonderful - they say 1001 years ago a magical
creature named Kinnar (who was ½ bird and ½ woman) took a woman
-No hint of Gin in
named Isra to the Himpan forest. In the forest, Isra found the flower and the
the cocktail
creature told her to take it home with her and plant it. The flower is to enhance
-An Arnold the weary traveler and give them strength.”
palmer with more
complex flavors
because of the tea Measurements
used
1.5 oz Hendricks
.25 Cointreau
.75 Simple syrup
1 oz Butterfly tea
.75 lemon juice
Garnish: Lemon wheel
Glass: collins glass
Build Notes

1. Make sure your ingredients are ready to go next to you, so you do not have to look for
things in the middle of cocktail building

2. Combine Simple syrup, Cointreau, butterfly tea, and Hendricks In boston glass and
shake

3. Strain into an iced collins glass, grab the lemon juice (have guest do it if possible), and
have it poured into the collins glass. Stir and watch it change colors. Garnish with Lemon
wheel
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Talking points (Cocktail):

1. Believed to have come from southeast Asia.

2. Known as a “brain booster”.

3. Chinese have been using the tea for several centuries as a balanced health tea.

4. Many beauty products today actually use the plant in their products because of the
overwhelming health properties it has.

5. Earthy and woody flavors — similar to green tea.

6. Used in hot and cold beverages around the world.

7. Some people freeze the tea into ice cubes and add them to drinks to have a cool color
changing effect as the ice cubes melt more and more into the beverage.

8. Mostly found on specialty online retail stores, whole foods is the first market to have
adopted the tea into their storefronts (guests always ask where to buy).

9. For some added magic to your athome recipe on Valentine’s Day mix the tea with fuchsia roselle hibiscus an
d the tea will turn a bright red color.

10. Butterfly tea is an edible flower that some people enjoy by putting it in salads (mostly in Thailand).
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