Poi Dog is our house blend of English Breakfast, Darjeeling, Oolong, green and white teas (1 bag each).
We harvested this on 8/23 after eight days. After eight days it tasted sweet and not vinegary. We have bottles #81-85 with 1 fl oz of Sambazon acai superfruit pack original blend with guarana and 1 tbspn of sugar. We will move the bottles at 3, 4 and 5 days to test how long we should go on the second fermentation.
Oolong RP: /uːlɒŋ/, GA: /ulɑŋ/ (simplified Chinese: 乌龙; traditional Chinese: 烏龍; pinyin: wūlóng) is a traditional Chinese tea (Camellia sinensis) produced through a unique process including withering the plant under the strong sun and oxidation before curling and twisting.
This batch of pure Oolong was brewed with 4 bags (an experiment with less tea). One cup of sugar and 1 1/2 cups starter buch was added to make the nute.
We harvested this on 8/21. It tasted sweet and light, probably due to having less tea. It will be interesting to see how it tastes after a 9 day 2nd fermentation.
This is our English Breakfast and green tea blend. We are experimenting with reducing the amount of tea so for this batch we used 3 bags of Tazo English Breakfast and one hand-packed bag (probably double) of loose leaf green. We also increased the sugar from 3/4 cup to a full cup. We are now using 1 1/2 cups of starter buch.
We harvested this on 8/19 after eight days. We added only a tbsp of sugar so that we could taste this new blend. This probably isn’t a good test of 4 bags because the green bag was double so this is more a test of 3 EB bags and 2 green.
This is our pure Darjeeling batch. This time we reduced the number of tea bags to 5 and increased the amount of starter buch to 1 1/2 cups (up from 1 cup). We are doing this to try to make our buch a little less strong and a little sweeter.
We harvested this on 8/18. After 8 days it still tasted sweet and not vinegary. We now have bottles #51-55 with 1/4 cup raspberry puree, 1 tsp ginger and 1 tbsp sugar. We’ll let this go another 3 or 4 days before moving to fridge. Raspberry has been a recent new favorite here at Babs’ Buch and now we’ve added some ginger for what is sure to be a new house favorite – Razamataz!
Poi Dog is our house blend of Black, Oolong, Green and White teas. We flavored this 8 day batch on 8/15 with 1/4 cup fresh raspberry puree and the usual tablespoon of sugar for a 2nd fermentation of 3 days (8/3 Raspberry Poi Dog)
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