#making drinks

[thevikingwoman]

The devil works hard but bartenders works harder

[iworkatstarbucks]

The Dry Cappuccino

A lady today told me that I made her the best dry cappuccino she’s ever had. She was so happy with it she wanted to tell my store manager. (unfortunately she wasn’t there at the time). But as someone who is very uncomfortable on bar it made me feel really good.

[kparlapa]

Wow! New GIF

[dailyrandomwriter]

Day 747

By the time I post this, the drink contest will have been over and done.

For those who aren’t aware, Santae, as part of their community building, holds contests where you bring a certain category of items to real life. The newsletter actually ended up in my junk folder, and for a moment I thought I had missed it, but apparently the deadline was extended.

Which was great, because the idea of making a drink based off of an item in the game sounded like fun, and that was something I could do. You know… if I wasn’t such a nutjob and decided to pick one of the hardest items in the game. 

The item is simply labelled Java, and it’s a layered drink of what looks like matcha at the bottom, milk in the middle and at the top chocolate (though, considering the name, most likely a coffee concentrate). However, I don’t like coffee, but I think chocolate and matcha work very well and I had both.

I just needed lactose free milk, because getting sick off of my own experiments (on top of fucking with my gulcose levels) is not fun. I figured if I got milk that was half and half, rather than skim, the higher fat content might help with the layering.

It did not, well with the hot chocolate it did, but it also was a mess. It was also supersweet (probably because all I had was flavoured matcha which was also sweet). After a bit of searching, I came across the answer to what I was looking for.

I forgot that milk tea drinks from the fancy tea shops tended to be layered, and the reason why is because their milk was either condensed milk or milk that had sugar added to it, because sugar will help thicken the liquid making it denser. However it didn’t answer my issue of how to make three layers, and more importantly, how do I have the matcha at the bottom?

Most milk tea drinks are designed to have the milk at the bottom and the tea at the top, again, because the milk has sugar in it.

Well… I really didn’t want to do that (I also wanted to save myself another sugar spike). So I thought, well, I like tea, tea is brewed with water and leaves, maybe that more than the hot chocolate would be less dense than the half and half milk. 

This didn’t solve my matcha problem though, that one required me to give in about the sugar and steal half a cup of sugar from my mother’s baking stash. To make matcha simple syrup with the rest of the matcha I had laying around my home. An act of cooking that was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Simple syrup turns out to be a simple 1:1 ratio of sugar and water, add your preferred flavour as needed (in this case matcha). Simmer for 5 minutes and you have matcha syrup. 

Which by the way, makes a decent container size for using only half a cup of water and half a cup of sugar.

To offset the sugar, I over steeped green tea leaves I had. Unfortunately, what I probably had to do was also make a tea concentrate so the colour would be dark enough that it wouldn’t get lost in the milk because it did kind of float on top, it was just still too light even after over-steeping. 

So I decided to go back through my inventory and find a drink that used matcha a lot more and came across the Ogreling Matcha drink. Not quite what I ended up with, I do again suspect that adding sugar to my milk would have solved a good amount of my issues, but it was already enough sugar.

That was the entry I submitted along with the ingredients, because nothing is more fun than a drink based off of a game that you can actually drink.

Fun fact, what I pretty much made was matcha milk tea, which was great. I still have some syrup left in the fridge and at some point in next week I'll need to buy more milk to finish it off because simple syrup only has a shelf life of a month.

[chronoest]

After several attempts, I got the Thai tea to taste good and not watery or too sweet

Problem is that now I just have several cups of Thai tea

[kembracaves]

What makes a good sangria? I'm thinking I should add some orange juice, or maybe some Brandy and cinnamon sticks? I already have a red wine + moscato, and fruit. I just feel like it could be more flavorful

[ms-mani]

BYOB: BE YOUR OWN BARTENDER 🍹🍸🍷🥃