Green Tea IPA

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  1. newjack

    newjack Initiate (0) Aug 22, 2014 Illinois

    So I split a 10 gallon "All Day IPA" clone with a friend, he recently keged his and said it was "good". That's great news, but mine is sill in the secondary so I pulled a gallon off and have set aside for some experimenting.

    I decided I wanted to try to make this into a Green Tea IPA.
    I mixed:

    9.5 oz vodka
    9.5 oz water
    21 mango green tea bags (1.82oz) Quality tea (Adagio Mango Green Tea)

    The plan is to cold steep for 24 hour and hope to extract 6-9 oz of the concreted tea mixture and dump into the 1 gallon I pulled from secondary.

    Any one try something like this with good results?


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    #1 newjack, Jan 20, 2015
  2. Lukass

    Lukass Pooh-Bah (2,891) Dec 16, 2012 Ohio
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    That sounds like a lot of tea for just 1 gallon of a session IPA. I've used coffee before (6 oz. soaked in 20 oz water) for a 5-gallon batch, and the coffee flavor is very pronounced. Never tried it with tea before though, so it could be completely different as far as flavor goes, but that looks like that would be enough for a 5-gallon batch. I'd cut back some on the tea, but that's just me. Let me know how it turns out!
     
    #2 Lukass, Jan 20, 2015
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  3. tkdchampxi

    tkdchampxi Pooh-Bah (2,473) Oct 19, 2010 New Jersey
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    I agree with @Lukass

    21 tea bags suggests that it is enough tea for 21 cups of tea. I assume the suggested water on a cup of tea is 8 ounces and a gallon only has 16 cups --> so it seems like there is too much tea for even full strength tea. I doubt you want your beer to have full strength tea flavor. You probably want more like a hint of tea.

    But who knows? Depends on preference and how much tea flavor can be pulled by the vodka water solution.
     
    #3 tkdchampxi, Jan 20, 2015
  4. newjack

    newjack Initiate (0) Aug 22, 2014 Illinois

    The tea really soaked up the liquid so I'm thinking I might be lucky to get a total of 8oz of tea extract.
     
    #4 newjack, Jan 20, 2015
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