Tea Infused White Rum Part One:
So, as I’ve mentioned my birthday is coming up really soon – in three days in fact! It’s kind of a big one; I’m turning twenty. And, of course I’m going to do what a lot of twenty year olds do to celebrate; have some booze! So, in the three days leading up to and including my birthday I’m finishing off the 750ml of White Rum I have by doing different tea infused rum shots.
I’ve prepared three pineapple/Pina Colada related teas which I’ve infused into the alcohol via cold brewing. This is the first one – and the only one of the three that doesn’t have coconut in it. And, of the three I made the least of this one because I didn’t want to use up a whole lot of my treasured, hoarded tea life – but it is a special occasion, so some could be justified.
It actually smells pretty decent after being strained; I really smell the orchid and other floral tones of the oolong, and I really don’t pick up on the pineapple at all – which sort of defeats the point of picking pineapple teas? Still – it smells nice! “Fancy sophisticated booze” if you will.
So… Time to chug it back!
I’m just going to be as straight forward about this as possible; I got it down and not even thirty seconds later I threw up. Thankfully, I was standing in the kitchen and our garbage can doesn’t have a lid – so I just whipped backwards away from the counter and purged.
It was one of the worst tasting alcohol related things I’ve ever had and I don’t think it would be hyperbole to say that it may have even tasted better coming up. Going down, it tasted like flowery hand soap. Like someone had just pumped a few shots worth down my throat. Except, it had alcohol burn too. NO NO NO.
Originally, this was meant to be my 2500th tasting note – glad that didn’t happen.
Now I’m worried about the rest of my tea infused birthday shots because, like this one, they smell amazing but if I proved anything here it’s that literally means nothing in regard to how they’ll taste.
