The next beer recipe and excerpt are featured within the article “Brewing with Tea” by Mary Izett (Could/June 2016 concern of Zymurgy journal.) Entry the complete concern with Zymurgy on-line.
“That is the beverage you brew while you solely have 10 minutes to spare and per week to ferment.”
Tea is the second-most-widely consumed beverage on the planet after water, nevertheless it’s not a drink that crosses paths with the beer world fairly often. Beer made with that different generally brewed beverage, espresso, is much extra available. However tea provides nice potential to homebrewers, significantly if we lengthen the definition past conventional, and much more so if we enterprise past barley-based drinks.
I had been experimenting with tea in beers and quick meads for some time after I got here throughout a fermented candy tea recipe whereas doing analysis for my e book, Pace Brewing. It sounded sort of loopy to me on the time: a 100% sugar-based fermented beverage? However after making a number of batches, I used to be in love.
That is the dead-easiest alcoholic beverage you can also make and it permits the tea to shine. It’s particularly good for delicate teas or tea blends that you just take pleasure in a lot on their very own that honey or malt would intervene fairly than complement.
