Another Brew On

wow, I forgot to add a new brew, I must have been busy even tho i'm meant to be on holiday! Anyway, a few days ago I started a new brew. Roasted Green Tea & Ginger. I'll write up the whole recipe sometime next week, sorry for keeping you waiting. But some chat about it now .... its Roasted Bancha and it makes a cracking cup of tea, tho it is quite "stocky" kind of like mushroom stock, and smokey too. I'll be very curious to see how this one works out.

The recipe is basically a copy of this one (clicky), except

• The green tea is replaced with roasted green tea. 
• Because this roasted tea was strongly flavoured in comparison I diluted it a bit more than usual. So the 100g of the tea made 3 gallons rather than 2.5
• I made it into a quickie wine, OG (original gravity) was reduced and the sultanas were replaced with 2 litres of grape juice per gallon of wine.

Today I took the muslin bag of tea out and moved it to secondary fermenter. I haven't been good at stirring it (only done so twice since starting) but it is fermenting just fine. Good old Sauternes yeast (Ritchies), it really is a very dependable and robust yeast that is so clean and easy to work with. I can't recommend it enough.

Like i said, a proper recipe (with piccies - cos i did take some) will follow next week.