Thursday, June 20, 2024

Fun Tea Recipe

This is the recipe for "Fun Tea" - an alcholic drink based on a Long Island Ice Tea. It usually goes in a dispenser labelled "Fun Tea" next to another dispenser of iced tea labelled "Boring Tea".

Where I call out a certain brand, it is a strong recommendation. Where I don't call out a certain brand, just use something inexpensive. You won't notice the difference.

To make a single drink:
1/2 shot vodka
1/2 shot gin
1/2 shot Kraken spiced rum
1 shot Centenario Anejo tequilla
2 1/2 shots sweet and sour mix
5 shots Coke Zero
2 splashes of bitters, or, if you can get it, 5 drops of Bitterman's Elemakule Tiki Bitters

To make this, use a large glass and start by putting the Bitters at the bottom, then add ice, then add the alchohol and give it a couple of swirls to mix the bitters in. Next quickly pour in the sweet and sour, and last quickly pour in the Coke Zero. If the pour wasn't hard enough to cause mixing, stir with a spoon.

To make larger quantities, simply scale up. For example, to make 7 quarts (1.75 gallons):
11 ounces (325 ml) of vodka
11 ounces (325 ml) of gin
11 ounces (325 ml) Kraken spiced rum
23 ounces (680 ml) Centenario Anejo tequilla
56 ounces (1,656 ml) sweet and sour mix
112 ounces (3,312 ml) Coke Zero
23 splashe of bitters, or 30 drops of Bitterman's Elemakule Tiki Bitters

We generally put this into a large dispenser with a spout and put some colorful frozen plastic cubes filled with water (plastic ice cubes) in it to keep it chilled and then have some regular ice near it that people can put in their glass.