My first beverage tinted with butterfly pea

[Deethe]

I've got a pack of Thai blue tea (clitoria ternatea, butterfly pea). So I decided I'd tint my homemade sambuca light blue...
The recipe on the pack says, "put 10-20 dried flowers per liter of beverage, infuse for 2 weeks, filter the flowers out".
I put 12 flowers per liter (seemed not too much), and the next morning my sambuca looks like ink!

Here it is, bottled:

Next I was planning some blue gin (they say it turns pink when combined with tonic). I guess I'll use 3-4 flowers per liter...

[Yummyrum]

Whoow , thats intense blue

[jonnys_spirit]

Clitoria Ternatea

[Oatmeal]

Does it also add flavor? Also, scientist getting cute with names....

[Deethe]

Does it also add flavor?

None that I can taste. Sambuca by itself has an overwhelmingly strong flavor.

[seamusm53]

As you found out, intensity of color is dependent both on how many flowers are used but also how long the flowers are in contact with the liquid. The pH dependent color change is also less apparent if the intensity is high. My wife loves a drink I call 'Purple' which is colored gin with Fresca and a slice of lime. Interestingly, over time the color fades. It is a fun trick to impress visitors with your sophisticated color palette. And I have not been able to discern any taste from the flowers but I haven't gone quite as deeply colored as you did. It must have some flavor since it is usally used as a 'tea'.

[Rrmuf]

Ive used it as well, and generally you need about 2-3 flowers per liter of distillate and it does not add any flavour or aroma as far as I can tell.
--- It sure looks nice though!

[a13b9]

Wow that looks amazing!
Sneak it in at the movies in a couple of fountain pens

[MihiT]

For a bit of extra sport, add a nip of methylene blue (available at pharmacy) to your guests' serve... the next time they go to the toilet...well, you'll probably hear it!

[NZChris]

I've been using butterfly pea flowers for a few years now, but not in the gin itself, mostly in blue ice cubes that gradually turn the drink pink as the ice melts. It works just as well in kid's lemonades etc.. Don't tell your guests what will happen, let them have the joy of discovering it themselves.

[Rrmuf]

I've been using butterfly pea flowers for a few years now, but not in the gin itself, mostly in blue ice cubes that gradually turn the drink pink as the ice melts. It works just as well in kid's lemonades etc.. Don't tell your guests what will happen, let them have the joy of discovering it themselves.

Fun!