We use 21 grams of Tie Kwan Yin Oolong tea, steeped in 1/2 gallon of distilled water for 30 minutes. After cooling to room temperature we added 2 additional cups of water, 1 1/4 cup of starter buch, and 1 cup of sugar. As always when we harvest our House OG we will be adding an additional 1 tsp of sugar when bottling for the 2nd fermentation. We’re now doing a 2 week second fermentation on the house buch.
We use 21 grams of Tie Kwan Yin Oolong tea, steeped in 1/2 gallon of distilled water for 30 minutes. After cooling to room temperature we added 2 additional cups of water, 1 1/4 cup of starter buch, and 1 cup of sugar. As always when we harvest our House OG we will be adding an additional 1 tsp of sugar when bottling for the 2nd fermentation. We’re now doing a 2 week second fermentation on the house buch.
We use 21 grams of Tie Kwan Yin Oolong tea, steeped in 1/2 gallon of distilled water for 30 minutes. After cooling to room temperature we added 2 additional cups of water, 1 1/4 cup of starter buch, and 1 cup of sugar. As always when we harvest our House OG we will be adding an additional 1 tsp of sugar when bottling for the 2nd fermentation. We’re now doing a 2 week second fermentation on the house buch.
We are now brewing 35 grams of Tie Kwan Yin Oolong in a gallon of distilled water. After steeping 30 minutes we transfer it to our big jar with 1 2/3 cups of sugar. After letting it cool we add 1 1/2 additional cups of water, 2 cups of starter buch and transfer the SCOBY. Our fermentation time this time of year is nine days.
We harvested this on 2/22 and added 1/3 cup of fresh squeezed pink grapefruit juice and 2 tsp of sugar. We’ll let it go at least a week in second fermentation.
Yikes! We did a 6 day second fermentation and not only is it too explosive but it doesn’t have near enough sugar. So we can learn a few lessons from this. One, that when we have a strong first fermentation (which this was), we need to sweeten it more and do a shorter 2nd fermentation.
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