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Recipe ArchiveWeek 02 of 8 · Deep Freeze

Blue Spruce

Butterfly pea tea takes the gin from deep blue to twilight violet the moment lime hits it. Named for the tree nobody can pronounce but everybody buys.

gin, butterfly pea tea, lime, simple syrup · served coupe · No. 05 of 24, season 2026

Blue Spruce gin and butterfly pea tea cocktail with a rosemary spruce branch and frozen blueberry cluster

Method

  1. 01

    Shake gin, butterfly pea tea and simple syrup with ice.

  2. 02

    Strain into a chilled glass.

  3. 03

    Add the lime juice at the pass and let the color shift in the glass.

Garnish

Rosemary “spruce” branch and a frozen blueberry cluster.

Also on Week 02 · Deep Freeze · opens November 9

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