CLASSIC · JAPANESE WHISKY

Ocha-Wari

Name: Ocha-Wari
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 drink
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Japanese Whisky; 120 ml Cold Brewed Green Tea

Japanese whisky cut with cold green tea instead of soda.

Ingredients

Japanese Whisky45 ml

Cold Brewed Green Tea120 ml

Glassware

Highball glass

Chilled.

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Flavor

Black pepper · Green apple · Honey · Mint · Oak

Estimated profile

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Method

1
Brew green tea, ideally sencha, and chill it completely — hot tea brewed and cooled tastes better than cold-brewed for this.
2
Fill a highball glass with hard ice and stir to chill, pouring off any melt.
3
Add the Japanese whisky and stir briefly.
4
Top with the cold green tea, pouring gently down the side.
5
Stir once and serve with no garnish.

The kit for this drink

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From the Bartender

One of the standard izakaya "wari" builds alongside mizuwari and oyuwari, usually made with shochu and just as good with whisky. Brew the tea a little stronger than you would drink it, since the ice will take the edge off. It handles salty food better than anything else in this list.

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