Cocktail · South Africa
Rooibos Brandy Sour
Shake a South African Rooibos Brandy Sour with brandy, tea, lemon and honey, using precise oz and ml quantities.
- Yield
- 1 cocktail
- Prep time
- 5 minutes
- Glassware
- Rocks glass
- Base
- Brandy
Ingredients
- 2 oz (60 ml) South African brandy
- 1 oz (30 ml) strong chilled rooibos tea
- 0.75 oz (22 ml) fresh lemon juice
- 0.5 oz (15 ml) honey syrup
- 1 egg white
Garnish
Lemon twist
How to make it
- 1Chill a rocks glass and measure each ingredient.
- 2Add South African brandy, strong chilled rooibos tea, lemon juice, honey syrup and egg white to a shaker and shake without ice for 15 seconds to aerate the egg white.
- 3Add ice and shake hard for another 12 seconds.
- 4Fine-strain into the rocks glass.
- 5Finish with lemon twist and serve immediately.
The story behind Rooibos Brandy Sour
This house sour combines two South African signatures: mature grape brandy and indigenous rooibos tea. Honey and lemon frame rooibos’s earthy sweetness without obscuring the brandy.
This is a Where It's Five house creation inspired by local ingredients and drinking traditions, not a historic national cocktail.