Oolong RP: /uːlɒŋ/, GA: /ulɑŋ/ (simplified Chinese: 乌龙; traditional Chinese: 烏龍; pinyin: wūlóng) is a traditional Chinesetea (Camellia sinensis) produced through a unique process including withering the plant under the strong sun and oxidation before curling and twisting.
For this batch we used 22 grams of Tie Kwan Yin oolong from Taiwan. We will see if we like it as well as the Tung Ting from Vietnam.
We let this batch go too long so discarded it.
For this batch we used 16 grams of Gyokuro Yamashiro loose leaf green tea.
We harvested this on 12/4 after eight days and flavored it with 1 tbsp of sugar in bottles #21-25. It tasted good but not very sweet which is why we went with a full tbsp of sugar for the second fermentation.
We tasted this after seven days and it was fizzy enough to move early however the taste was not as good as our Darjeeling and Oolong so we are ending this SCOBY family’s life and going down to two batches.
Darjeeling tea is a tea from the Darjeeling district in West Bengal, India. For this batch we used 10 cups water, 14 grams of DavidsTea Second Flush Darjeeling, 1 cup sugar and 1 1/2 cups starter buch.
We harvested this on 12/1 after 7 days. The SCOBYs looked a little thin and tired and the buch tasted sweet and a little weak. Maybe it’s the coolness of the office lately. We flavored it with a little less than 1/4 cup Strawberry puree and 1/2 tbsp of sugar in bottles #11-16
Oolong RP: /uːlɒŋ/, GA: /ulɑŋ/ (simplified Chinese: 乌龙; traditional Chinese: 烏龍; pinyin: wūlóng) is a traditional Chinesetea (Camellia sinensis) produced through a unique process including withering the plant under the strong sun and oxidation before curling and twisting.
For this batch we used 11 grams of Tung Ting Oolong and 10 grams of Tie Kwan Yin Oolong, 10 cups of water, a cup of sugar and 1 1/2 cups starter buch.
We harvested this on 11/30 after seven days. It tasted very good, still a little sweet but not weak after seven days. That is definitely our new first fermentation period. Oh, we made another plain batch, flavored with just 1/2 tbsp of sugar in bottles #1-5
We are switching our Pyscho Buch SCOBY over to a green tea brew. For this batch we used 16 grams of DavidsTea Gyokuro Yamashiro. We used 1 1/2 cups of Psycho Buch for starter along with a cup of sugar.
If memory serves correctly we discarded this batch … something about it being vinegary after only 8 days? Oh and the fact that we’re a little overstocked right now. Will try to harvest after 7 days this week.
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