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RecipesOct 22, 2025

Witches Brew with Skullcap

This deliciously tart and spicy brew has a dark and brooding look for any wizard or witch to enjoy. And if you feel like taking things up a notch with an optional upgrade, add black sugar or black salt to the rim for a moody vibe. Black sugar is unrefined cane sugar that hasn’t had the molasses stripped from it. Black salt is a rock salt that has traditionally been fired in a kiln with charcoal, herbs, and/or naturally occurring minerals, and it has a devilish sulfur-like smell.

Ingredients

Serves 1

Herbal Tea

1 tbsp Hibiscus flowers, dried, from Pacific Botanicals

1 cup water

Drink

4 fresh Blackberries

¼ tsp sugar of choice

1 tsp fresh Lemon juice

1/8 to 1/4 tsp fresh Ginger, grated, or a pinch (1/16 tsp) dried Ginger, ground

¼ cup Pomegranate juice, unsweetened

¾ cup Hibiscus tea, cooled (See Herbal Tea ingredients and Instructions sections)

0.7 ml Herb Pharm Skullcap liquid herbal extract†

Ice

Optional glass rim: black sugar or salt

Optional garnish: fresh Lemon wedge or 2 skewered fresh Blackberries

Herbal Tea Instructions:

  1. Start the Hibiscus tea by steeping dried Hibiscus flowers in hot water using a large mug or heat safe cup. Let it steep for 15 minutes.
  2. Strain, discard the plant material, and put the tea in the fridge to cool.

Witches Brew Drink Instructions

  1. If adding a black rim to the glass, place some of the sugar or salt to coat a small plate and rub a Lemon wedge around the rim of a glass.
  2. Dip and twist the glass opening on the sugar or salt plate to coat the rim.
  3. Add Blackberries to the glass and use a muddler or the back of a utensil to squish them to release their juices.
  4. Sprinkle the sugar over the muddled berries and let it macerate for a few minutes.
  5. Combine the Lemon juice, grated Ginger, cooled Hibiscus tea, Pomegranate juice, and ice to a cocktail shaker.
  6. Shake and strain into the glass and stir in the Skullcap extract.
  7. Sip and enjoy!

Tips:

  • Add a gummy worm, spider, frog, or whatever creepy crawler you like, to hang off the glass rim for a sweet treat.
  • Black sugar, also known as kokuto, and black salt, called kala namak, can be found online, but feel free to leave it off or substitute it with any sugar or salt of your choice.

†One squeeze of the dropper equals 0.7 ml; provides approximately 1 serving of Herb Pharm liquid herbal extract.

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