Re: Need a quick answer re/tea

[Guest guest]

> I am going to be putting this up this evening. If necessary, I

will go

> out and find some plain green tea, so please let me know your

opinions.

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> Joyce

> Dallas TX

>

Hi Joyce,

I have been experimenting ever since I got a third scoby. Two of

these scobys have never been used for anything other than the basic

recipe that I began with which is almost exactly like the one Bev

uses.

I now have these originals in my continuous brew containers and some

of their babies in a glass jug of their own for backups and sending

out.

I have 4 others going also. They all start with the original recipe

but in one I have added yerba mate, the other has apple/cinnamon

tea, one has chammomile tea and one has a spice mix tea sort of like

what you are describing. They all make great fizzy tea and good

babies but whether they all can claim to have all of the main

goodies in plain KT I would not know. I ensure that I drink at least

4 ounces of my plain kt daily and the others I just enjoy whenever.

Hope this helps.

Sandy

PS the yerba mate brew is a real picker upper in the morning! )

[Guest guest]

> I am going to be putting this up this evening. If necessary, I

will go

> out and find some plain green tea, so please let me know your

opinions.

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> Joyce

> Dallas TX

>

Hi Joyce,

I have been experimenting ever since I got a third scoby. Two of

these scobys have never been used for anything other than the basic

recipe that I began with which is almost exactly like the one Bev

uses.

I now have these originals in my continuous brew containers and some

of their babies in a glass jug of their own for backups and sending

out.

I have 4 others going also. They all start with the original recipe

but in one I have added yerba mate, the other has apple/cinnamon

tea, one has chammomile tea and one has a spice mix tea sort of like

what you are describing. They all make great fizzy tea and good

babies but whether they all can claim to have all of the main

goodies in plain KT I would not know. I ensure that I drink at least

4 ounces of my plain kt daily and the others I just enjoy whenever.

Hope this helps.

Sandy

PS the yerba mate brew is a real picker upper in the morning! )

[Guest guest]

> I am going to be putting this up this evening. If necessary, I

will go

> out and find some plain green tea, so please let me know your

opinions.

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> Joyce

> Dallas TX

>

Hi Joyce,

I have been experimenting ever since I got a third scoby. Two of

these scobys have never been used for anything other than the basic

recipe that I began with which is almost exactly like the one Bev

uses.

I now have these originals in my continuous brew containers and some

of their babies in a glass jug of their own for backups and sending

out.

I have 4 others going also. They all start with the original recipe

but in one I have added yerba mate, the other has apple/cinnamon

tea, one has chammomile tea and one has a spice mix tea sort of like

what you are describing. They all make great fizzy tea and good

babies but whether they all can claim to have all of the main

goodies in plain KT I would not know. I ensure that I drink at least

4 ounces of my plain kt daily and the others I just enjoy whenever.

Hope this helps.

Sandy

PS the yerba mate brew is a real picker upper in the morning! )

[Guest guest]

Thanks, and Sandy. I did make the tea last night, but found that I

did have some plain Japanese greed tea, so I used it with a touch of the tea

mix that I normally use and which the SCOBY is used to, and I innoculated it

with a quart of the just finished batch of KT (made with my regular recipe).

Today, I purchased another variety of Japanese green tea. In the Bartholomew

book, green tea is recommended for heart conditions. So I am making this for

my husband, who enjoys my regular KT immensely and who has seen the

differences it has made for me. He knows that I am making the green tea for

him, and he is looking forward to tasting it, even suggesting that we might

make all of our KT with green tea LOL.

Hugs to both of you,

Joyce

Dallas TX

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[Guest guest]

So I am making this for

> my husband, who enjoys my regular KT immensely and who has seen the

> differences it has made for me. He knows that I am making the green

tea for

> him, and he is looking forward to tasting it, even suggesting that

we might

> make all of our KT with green tea LOL.

>

> Hugs to both of you,

>

Hey Joyce,

Don't tell anyone but my first 5 or so brews were all made with green

tea because I couldn't find any black tea.

Welllllll, if you are not much of a tea drinker why would you think

that ORANGE pekoe was black tea. *big blush*

Even now I prefer green tea for the flavor but I add some black tea

for better color.

) Sandy

[Guest guest]

>Thanks, and Sandy. I did make the tea last night, but found that I

>did have some plain Japanese greed tea, so I used it with a touch of the tea

>mix that I normally use and which the SCOBY is used to, and I innoculated it

>with a quart of the just finished batch of KT (made with my regular recipe).

>Today, I purchased another variety of Japanese green tea. In the Bartholomew

>book, green tea is recommended for heart conditions. So I am making this for

>my husband, who enjoys my regular KT immensely and who has seen the

>differences it has made for me. He knows that I am making the green tea for

>him, and he is looking forward to tasting it, even suggesting that we might

>make all of our KT with green tea LOL.

That's great, Joyce But hey, both black and green tea have medicinal

properties, and I personally really do think that a bit of black tea gives

a nice flavor. So if your hubby really likes the plain green, that's

perfectly fine, but adding a touch of black is not going to significantly

alter the medicinal effects for him.

Black tea has also been found to be heart healthy. The research on black

tea's medicinal benefits is much newer than for green. There was a

prejudice that black tea couldn't be medicinal, and that's been found wrong.

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[Guest guest]

Hi Sandy

Actually Orange Pekoe is a grade of tea and refers to the

classification of leaf size not a kind of tea. An interesting thing

about tea grading is their is not a common standard used by all tea

producing countries. Different countries call the same grade of tea

by different name. It is also possible for a lower grade of tea to

actually taste better than a higher grade. I know more than you

wanted to know, but hay this is more fun than watching TV.

Bill

> if you are not much of a tea drinker why would you think

>that ORANGE pekoe was black tea. *big blush*

[Guest guest]

>

> Hi Sandy

>

> Actually Orange Pekoe is a grade of tea and refers to the

> classification of leaf size not a kind of tea. An interesting

thing

> about tea grading is their is not a common standard used by all

tea

> producing countries. Different countries call the same grade of

tea

> by different name. It is also possible for a lower grade of tea to

> actually taste better than a higher grade. I know more than you

> wanted to know, but hay this is more fun than watching TV.

>

> Bill

Actually Bill, I am hungry to know anything and everything about

brewing KT and doing more for my physical health so I say thanks for

every tidbit of information.

Being from the south you would think that I should know more about

tea but I was never a big fan of tea and usually prefered milk even

as a child so what I know about tea is very limited.

As for TV, we had our satellite turned off because 1 or 2 hours of

watching TV per month was not worth 50 bucks a month. If we do get

the urge to watch we just rent a movie or watch the fuzzy channel

that we can get from a small antenna.

)

Sandy

[Guest guest]

Hi Sandy

A couple of sites for tea information and grades are:

http://www.teafountain.com/teagrades/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tea

This really will not help you with your KT brewing.

Just remember a hot tea that taste good to you may not make a KT you enjoy.

A hot tea you do not like my make a excellent KT.

Find a brew you like and make it you standard then experiment with

different teas and tea combinations.

Also remember that the say tea type from different manufacture may

produce vastly different tasting KT

Bill

>

> >

> > Hi Sandy

> >

> > Actually Orange Pekoe is a grade of tea and refers to the

> > classification of leaf size not a kind of tea. An interesting

>thing

> > about tea grading is their is not a common standard used by all

>tea

> > producing countries. Different countries call the same grade of

>tea

> > by different name. It is also possible for a lower grade of tea to

> > actually taste better than a higher grade. I know more than you

> > wanted to know, but hay this is more fun than watching TV.

> >

> > Bill

>

>Actually Bill, I am hungry to know anything and everything about

>brewing KT and doing more for my physical health so I say thanks for

>every tidbit of information.

>Being from the south you would think that I should know more about

>tea but I was never a big fan of tea and usually prefered milk even

>as a child so what I know about tea is very limited.

>As for TV, we had our satellite turned off because 1 or 2 hours of

>watching TV per month was not worth 50 bucks a month. If we do get

>the urge to watch we just rent a movie or watch the fuzzy channel

>that we can get from a small antenna.

>)

>Sandy

[Guest guest]

>

> Hi Sandy

>

> A couple of sites for tea information and grades are:

>

> http://www.teafountain.com/teagrades/

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tea

>

Thanks a lot Bill,

There is a lot I don't know about tea but a lot I can read now.

I actually like hot tea more than I do iced and until I learned about

kombucha I drank Earl Grey or PG tips sent to us by my mother-in-law

in England. (The PG tips that is, we can get the Earl Grey here.)

I knew there were green teas but never knew there were black teas even

though they looked black before brewing.

Have a great day!

Sandy

[Guest guest]

We buy PG tips at Whole Foods. Love them and have been brewing with them

for the past month.

- in Ohio