I'm new to home brewing. I just started an Imperial Stout recipe but added pumpkin and spices to attempt my play on The Warlock beer. I want to try a tea infused beer next. It sounds very intriguing. Thinking of trying Red rooibos tea with a Honey Brown ale. Any and all suggestions are appreciated as this is only the 2nd beer I have ever brewed.
I have never taster red rooibos tea, so can't offer much there. But if you decide to add some amount of steeped tea or a tincture made from the tea, you might want to add small amounts of the liquid to a known amount of a similar (commercial) beer, to dial in the right quantity. You can view/download a cheat sheet on sample dosing here: http://sonsofalchemy.org/library/
Check out the Monkey's Paw Brown Ale in Papazian's "Joy of Homebrewing". Buddy of mine used it along with Earl Grey, and it turned out well enough to be the basis of Ardent's Earl Grey Brown Ale.
Also, if you're new to homebrewing, gotta crawl before you run. I would suggest making things just using malt, hops, water, and yeast, and figuring out what you can and can't do before adding a lot of extra stuff. I ended up with a few batches that I left in alleys for bums to pick up in my early days, because I didn't want to drink them.
@MrOH is so very right. Walk before you can run. It sounds tempting, to jump in an make all sorts of intriguing combinations. Just know that the past half millennium has contributed greatly to our knowledge of brewing, what works and what doesn't work. Suffice it to say that you should definitely be making the beer you want. If you go too fast to soon you'll be making beer nobody wants. This forum is always available to help out. Most all of us have been there before and can our experience is free for the asking. Cheers
Thanks guys. I appreciate the advise. I love to experiment with cooking so I have the itch to do the same thing with homebrewing. I bought the book How to Brew by John Palmer so I'm going to read this first before diving in.
