Re: Two Questions: A question about an experimental idea, and a question about t

[Guest guest]

Hi Nori,

Thanks for catching that....I always used Organic herbal teas and they

came without staples and tags so I hadn't thought about it but the

metal staples would definitely be a problem in contact with the acidic

KT.

Peace, Love and Harmony,

Bev

> >

> > Hi Gloria and EveryOne,

> >

> > You can do what you contemplated but there is a much easier way:-))

> >

> > Just take your finished KT and divide it into separate bottles when

> > you decant it. Then add a tea bag or two, depending on the size of

> > your bottles, of flavored tea such as ginger, orange, peach, berry,

> > etc. etc. etc. The varieties are endless.....and most are

> delicious.

>

[Guest guest]

> Question about the continuous brew method

> If I am understanding correctly I can use my gallon jar (or bigger)

for KT

> brewing, and when it is time to harvest the KT, I just dip out all

the KT

> for harvesting, and then leave the appropriate KT starter amount in

the jar

> along with one scoby (meaning I take out either the new scoby, or

the old

> scoby), and then I just add the new tea brew/sugar that has cooled

to room

> temp on top of the remaining scoby and the starter liquid in said

jar, cover

> it up with a new coffee filter and start the new brew, again, in the

same

> jar I just harvested from... Is that right?

This is the way my continuous brewing works. But my new scoby forms

on top of and is attached to the old scoby, so it is all one and just

keeps getting thicker.... I make about a gallon each week this way.

It takes me 20 minutes to make the new tea, dissolve the sugar in hot

water, lift the scoby onto a dish, scoop out the KT with a jug, bottle

it, pour the cooled tea, sugar water and enough filtered water back

into the crock, replace the scoby and the muslin and elastic band.

Not much work for 4 litres of lovely effervescent KT.

I would be very interested in your microbrews, as I have been thinking

exactly the same thing.... my big pot is currently full of

raspberry/cranberry/elderflower KT (which is lovely) but I'd quite

like some plain KT too, and don't have space for another huge crock!

Adrienne