How to make The Pirates of Good & Proper: The Curse of the Jasmine Pearl Tea cocktail

By Joel Whitall from Ozone Coffee

In October, we hosted our annual tea cocktail competition, 'The Proper Shake Up'.
As always, it was a real treat to witness the creativity, craft and innovation brought by all of the competitors. The Proper Shake Up is a highlight in the Good & Proper events calendar which serves as a great reminder of just how versatile tea can be. Not only brewed, but shaken, stirred, vaporised, and clarified. All part of our mission to show the world how good tea can be, when it’s done properly.

With an incredibly high standard of entries, we also gave the audience a chance to have our say. Here's how to make Joel's cocktail - The Pirates of Good & Proper: The Curse of the Jasmine Pearl Tea - winner of this year's People's Choice Award 

To make your Jasmine tea foam

• 300ml 60-70° water 
• 5g Good & Proper Jasmine Pearls
• 30 g sugar
• 0.5 g citric acid
• 0.5 g malic acid
• 0.5 g tartaric acid
• 1.8 g methocellulose 50
• 0.5 g xanthan gum
• 2 N2O charges
  
  
• Steep jasmine pearls in 60-70° water for 10 minutes, then add sugar and acids.
• Stir to combine and add methocellulose 50 and xanthan gum.
• Blend, then pour into a cream whipper and charge with two n2O charges, shaking in between charges.
• Store in the fridge for at least 2 hours before using.

To make your Jasmine milk tea

• 250ml water
• 250ml milk
• 10g Jasmine Pearls
  
  
• Heat water to 70°, then add milk and allow tea to steep for 10 minutes.

To make your Jasmine punch base

• 75ml lemon juice
• 75ml lychee puree
• 75ml simple sugar syrup
• London Bloom gin
• 175ml Jasmine milk tea
• Yellow Chartreuse
  
  
• Combine the lemon juice, lychee, syrup and gin.
• Add the milk tea then pour mixture into the tea to allow it to sit for 30 mins and curdle.
• Pass this through a coffee filter (chemex where possible). Filter should run cloudy, then clear. When you see this change, pass the original filtered liquid back into the filter mix.
• Bottle and set in fridge for 2 hours.
  
  

To make your finished drink (serves 1)

• Wash your glass with yellow chartreuse
• Add 200ml of jasmine punch into mixing glass with ice.
• Pour into an old-fashioned glass with ice and add some Good & Proper House Matcha powder for garnish.