Iced Tea With Your Ginger Beer Plant.

What you will need.

1. 1 x Jar capable of holding more than 2 Litres
2. An elastic band or string
3. Some kitchen paper/cloth for top of jar
4. Some kitchen cloth/ muslin for ginger
5. A fine stainless steel or plastic sieve
6. A 2 litre fizzy drink bottle. The simplest is an empty PET cola bottle or a flip top beer bottle.
7. Plastic funnel

Ingredients.

1. about a tablespoon of GBP (how much isn't vital)
2. 200g of sugar
3. 2 litres of water with the juice of at least half a lemon added.
4. 1/2 teaspoon of cream of tartar (tartaric acid)
5. 2 teaspoons or bags of peach flavored tea leaves and
6. 2 teaspoons green tea (or four teaspoons or bags of any tea)

Method

Make sure your jar has been washed in hot soapy water and rinsed clean. Prepare and measure out all ingredients ready to go.

Boil a cup of water from the ingredients (without the lemon), poor over the tea in a jug and allow to stand for 15 minutes then strain. Meanwhile add the other ingredients to the fermenting jar. When the strained tea has cooled slightly add it slowly while stirring the fermenting jar water, this is just so the hot tea doesn't scald the GBP.

Now cover the jar with the kitchen paper and secure with the elastic band or string.

Allow the tea to ferment for a few days until it tastes the way you want it then bottle as for the ginger beer recipe.

You can use any tea you like, I use peach flavoured mainly but I have used plain black tea, plain green tea, white tea, rose, lemon, strawberry in green and black and combined different ones. Have fun experimenting, If you've ever tried Kombucha it's a little similar but less acidic, a very nice brew.

 

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