Baileys Irish Cream

Bailey's Irish Cream is an Irish cream liqueur, a liqueur is an alcoholic drink made of distilled spirits and flavorings such as sugar, fruits, herbs, and spices. They can be rightfully christened as the descendants of herbal medicine. The Bailey's Irish Cream is a sweet, cream and cocoa flavoured thick liqueur with Irish Whiskey being the base alcohol and is one of the most popular liqueurs used in cocktail creation.

Tea

Black tea or red tea is a type of tea that is one of the oxidised roasted ways of consuming tea, it’s the most oxidised of them and is stronger in flavour than Oolong, yellow or white tea and very different from the green tea too. All teas come from the same bush called Camellia Sinensis and differ only in how they are treated.

All teas come from the same bush called Camellia Sinensis and differ only in how they are treated. Green tea is the style of tea producing where the green leaves are steamed and scalded and then rolled and dried.

Iced tea is mostly black tea brew, served cold and with ice. It’s a different form od drinking fermented/oxidised tea, which is otherwise drunk hot.

Iced tea is mostly black tea brew, served cold and...

Black tea or red tea is a type of tea that is one of the oxidised roasted ways of consuming tea, it’s the most oxidised of them and is stronger in flavour than Oolong, yellow or white tea and very different from the green tea too. All teas come from the same bush called Camellia Sinensis and differ only in how they are treated.

A strong tea refers to a black tea with a thicker liquor that lacks the flavour of a first flush roasted tea, a strong tea can be brewed from a leafy full leaf pekoe, but brewing a pekoe for too long makes it too bitter, hence a regular CTC tea or strong liquor tea bags are better if a strong tea is required.

Sugar

Brown Sugar is a sucrose sugar with a distinctive brown colour from the presence of molasses, it is a partially refined or unrefined sugar containing sugar crystals and residual molasses giving it a distinctive taste and flavour of crystallised molasses or toffee. The taste of dark brown sugar is described as a caramel taste with a deep molasses flavour.
Brown sugar is used in cocktails where a caramel candy or toffee flavour is expected.

Caster Sugar is finely ground granulated sugar. It is not as fine a powdered confectioners' sugar and has a little grit to it. It is somewhere between confectioners' sugar and granulated sugar, and melts in mouth with a mild spicy feel to the tongue

Vanilla Sugar is the regular granulated sugar infused with vanilla flavour, by using vanilla pods and seeds to flavour the sugar. A home made alternative is to use vanilla sticks or pods in a jar of sugar and leave it sealed for 4 weeks to allow the vanilla flavour to infuse. Or to use granulated sugar and vanilla extract and blend in a mixer, although this ends up in powdered sugar.