Bloom Tea Recipes

Simple Syrup
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
Bring water to a boil. Add sugar and dissolve completely. Cover and store in the fridge for up to one week.
Iced Blooming Tea
2 cups boiling water
Tea bloom of choice
Follow instructions for blooming tea and bloom as usual. Put tea into fridge. Serve over ice when chilled with bloom in the bottom of the cup for your enjoyment.
Strong Man's Iced Tea
1 cup iced blooming tea
2 ounces vodka
Simple sugar
Ice
In a large glass cup, mix vodka and iced tea over ice with a little simple syrup. Leave bloom in bottom of cup for your enjoyment.
Red Blooming Tea
4 cups iced blooming tea
Juice of 2 lemons
1/4 cup grenadine
Ice
Combine all ingredients in a large glass pitcher with ice. Leave bloom in bottom of the pitcher for your enjoyment.
Sage Blooming Tea
1 tea bloom
4 cups water
1 bunch fresh sage leaves
4 tbsp. simple syrup
Bring water to boil. Add about half the water to bloom and the other half to the sage leaves. Bloom tea as usual. After two minutes, strain the sage leaves from the water. Combine sage water and tea with simple syrup. Serve immediately.
Iced Blooming Tea with Pear
1 cup iced blooming tea
1/2 cup pear juice
In a large glass cup, mix pear juice and iced tea over ice. Leave bloom in bottom of cup for your enjoyment.
Blooming Tea Refresher
1 tea bloom
2 cups water
2 cups pineapple juice
2 tbsp. honey
Bring 2 cups of water to boil. In a large glass teapot, pour boiling water over tea bloom. Add pineapple juice and honey. Enjoy.
Soothing Lemongrass Blooming Tea
4 stalks lemongrass
4 cups water
1 tea bloom
4 tbsp. honey
Chop bottom 4 inches of lemongrass off. Bring the water to a boil. Add about half the water to bloom and bloom tea as usual. Add the lemongrass to the leftover boiling water and let sit for 10 minutes. Strain and add to the tea. Add honey and mix to combine. Enjoy.
Blooming Tea Martini
Ice
1 tea Bloom
2 ounces Citrus flavored Vodka
Splash of Cointreau
Simple Syrup
Bloom tea as usual. Add bloom to martini glass. Fill shaker with ice. Add 1 ounce of green tea, the vodka, contreau, and a dash of simple syrup. Shake well and strain into martini glass with bloom.
Candace's Blooming Tea Punch
3 cups iced blooming tea
4 ounces white rum
2 ounces peach schnapps
1/2 cup club soda
1/2 cup pineapple juice
Ice
4 tbsp. simple syrup
Pineapple slices for garnish
Combine all ingredients in a large glass pitcher. Use pineapple slices as a garnish. Keep bloom in the bottom of your pitcher for your enjoyment. Drink up!
Other Thoughts
Try mixing up your own drink by adding any of the following ingredients to your tea bloom. Additions: pear juice, honey, simple syrup, pineapple juice, orange juice, white grape juice, milk, cream.
Steven Kuperberg founded Full Bloom Tea after falling in love with bloom teas when traveling internationally. He decided to import the teas back to the US and specialize in this unique category of tea so other tea lovers can enjoy the taste as well as the health benefits of tea as they are rich in antioxidants.
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