[OT] Green Peppermint Tea (Lois)

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Hi Lois

Rather than hijack Jan's thread I decided to continue your message in

a new one as the subject matter is slightly different.

Like I say, I used the green peppermint tea successfully to make two

good batches of K. It was only as I was reading back through these

messages, and then onto the other well known sites, that I found out

that it is not advisable to use flavoured teas.

I swapped to non-flavoured green tea as I didn't want to risk killing

myy scoby(s). I think I read somewhere that somebody's scoby just

stopped producing K (she was using a flavoured tea). One of the more

experienced responders seemed to think that it was the long-term

effect of the flavoured tea that killed it.

I'm very new to K so I decided to follow the experts' advice. To be

honest there was no peppermint flavour in the final K at all. It was

just convenient to use that tea because that was what I had at home at

the time!

Regards

JT

Original message from Lois (copied and pasted here so that the above

message makes sense to everybody)

Re: How long before I should call it quits?

Hi, JT. I think perhaps you meant this for Jan, but while we're on the

subject of green peppermint tea, I remember reading that someone who had

been with the group from the beginning brewed nothing but Earl Grey, and

quite successfully. A nicely blended Earl Grey is one of my absolute

favorite cups of tea, but for some reason, I can't imagine the kombucha.

I'm looking forward to trying it, so am doubly encouraged by your

success with another highly flavored tea. Cheers, Lois