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Green Tea
Brewed and chilled green tea is a lighter, more vegetal alternative to black iced tea — less tannic, with a grassy, slightly bitter edge instead of black tea's fuller astringency. It works as a direct substitute anywhere iced tea lengthens a cocktail, giving a subtler, less traditional result.
grassylightrefreshingmildly bitter
Common uses
- lengthens tall built cocktails
- lighter substitute for black iced tea
Buying & storage
Months once opened: Keeps for months once opened, but it does change. Nothing urgent; worth finishing within a season.
Storage: refrigerate and use within 2-3 days for the freshest flavour
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
No published recipe lists green tea as an ingredient — but it may still appear below as a garnish or as a recommended substitute.
Stand-in
Where green tea is a recommended substitute
Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.
- Arnold Palmerin place of iced tea, unsweetened
- Alcohol-Free Hot Toddyin place of hot water, just off the boil
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Possible substitutions
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