Re: pu-erh maiden works excellently

July 10, 2007

What is pu-erh maiden and how is it different from plain pu-erh? I get my

pu-erh from Republic of Tea (which is also a fair-trade organic supplier).

Thanks - Peggy

<milo.open@...> wrote:

hey everyone.

thanks for all those who helped me out with my new dad anxieties. the

advice to just leave the brew alone resulted in much thicker/sturdier

scobies the second time around. my third brew is now in the makings

and i'm starting to enjoy the second.

for the second brew i divided the scoby in half and made one w/

shincha [first flush green tea] from shizuoka japan and the other with

organic pu-erh maiden from rishi

i highly recommend rishi's fair-trade organic wares. as most of you

probably know, you usually can't trust chinese tea that says it's

" organic " , but rishi has direct and longstanding relationships w/ its

growers in china whom rishi visits periodically so if anyone does have

organic chinese tea it's probably them.

anyway, i want to recommend using 6-8 teaspoons of pu-erh maiden w/

not a lot of sugar (maybe 1 cup or less) per gallon. i let it brew

for about 10 days and then bottled it with two teaspoons of ginger

slivers. be careful because it will get very, very fizzy. it puffed

out the metal led of the ball jars i was using. but it was really

envigorating, mildly spicy and fresh, fizzy, sweet, tart, etc. the

best of everything i like in kombucha. the scobies really love this

pu-erh maiden stuff. the shincha+ginger was really good too but the

flavor was not as complex as the pu-erh maiden.

the third brew is one jar of pu-erh maiden and one jar of

shincha/organic yunnan black (also from rishi). i'll let you know.

cheers,

chris

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