Zboocha...how I brew large amounts of KT...

July 25, 2006

Zboocha,

I brew large amounts using the continuos brewing method...for me this is

perfect and meets my needs with fresh and delicious KT everyday, but without

the bottling hassles.

I use 's method of heating only a small portion of the water for

steeping the tea in, and adding it to the rest of the room temp water and it

works beautifully...no cooling off period required, YEAH!

My continuous brew starter recipe is as follows:

8 cups of starter from harvested KT batch

24 cups of tea made of black tea or black tea/green tea/jasmine blend

3 cups of sugar,

For the scoby, in the beginning, I used a beautiful 1-inch thick scoby I had

from my green tea KT that I harvested that week. Now, My continuos brew has

it's own huge scoby (scobies) in the brewing crock.

I currently have the continuous brew sitting back in my kitchen in an out of

the way corner. I replinish it daily as I use it. Sometimes I might go two

days before I add to it, but it is pretty much a daily thing. I keep a

gallon of " tea for the KT " in my fridge and if I draw off 2 cups of KT, I

pour two cups of tea and let it set out in a covered glass about 20 minutes

to come up in temp, before I add it to the brew. Sometimes I pour it in a

pre-warmed container to hurry the process.

Some people add the tea back in every 2-3 days...I can't get a good system

down that way, so I have to do it this way. I, myself, am open to

suggestions on how to handle " topping off " the continuous KT brews.

Evryone has their own style...their own groove if you will. This is how I am

doing it, but I just started on 21 June...so I have only been doing this

just a bit over a month. I have a lot of time to grow and change as needed

to get into " my KT groove " . The one thing I can tell you is I am absolutely

SOLD on the continuous brewing method...for me it is perfect:) ,___

(((HUGS)))~Gloria in Tennessee

When you do good, equal evil will rise against you. Do good anyway...Good will

always prevail in the end.

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