8/19 LB English Zen #3-6 Honey Ginger
ginger tea on a brown background
This batch is the same as our last English Breakfast except this time we used 4 bags of Tazo EB and 1 bag of green.
8/15 LO Poi Dog Blend #81-85 Acai – Guarana
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.
8/12 RB Oolong #71-75 Honey Vanilla
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.
8/10 RO Darjeeling #51-55 Razamataz
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!
8/7 LO Poi Dog #41-46 Raspberry
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)
8/4 RB Oolong Honey Vanilla #31-35
This brew is pure Oolong. Oolong is probably our favorite tea at Babs Buch and we will be experimenting with a variety of Oolongs from DAVIDsTEA. Note the healthy happy SCOBYs in this batch. Bacteria and yeast must like Oolong as much as we do.
We flavored this batch with 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp honey and 1/4 tsp vanilla. We will let it 2nd ferment for 9 days. I expect this batch to be sweet as it tasted light and sweet before bottling. Moved to fridge 8/21.
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