Bite Me: Chai Old Fashioned Cocktail

Ingredients

Yield:

 

• Ingredients

  • 2 oz Aged Rum
  • ½ oz Maple simple syrup (2 parts maple syrup: 1 part water)
  • 3 dashes of Angostura bitters
  • 4 Blackberries

Preparation

Difficulty:

Easy

Time:

2 Minutes

Total Time:

 

1. Preparation

   1. Boil water and brew 3 tablespoons of loose leaf chai tea, letting it steep for 3-5 minutes. Pour the steeped chai tea into an ice tray and let it freeze overnight.
   2. Once the ice cubes are frozen, muddle blackberries in a mixing glass.
   3. Add the aged rum, maple 2:1, and Angostura Bitters into the mixing glass with ice and stir for 20 seconds.
   4. In a rocks glass, add the chai ice cubes and double strain the cocktail with a hawthorne strainer and a fine tea strainer to remove any blackberry pieces.
   5. Garnish with a cinnamon stick or a lemon twist.