Quote: "How do you know how long to brew the tea for? Do you wait for the foaming to stop? Do you scrape away the nasty looking foam stuff at the top?"
I guess these^^^^^ questions are where I thought you weren't experienced with teas,and if you ask how long to brew a tea...that would be a strong indicator that a person wasn't experienced.
I make my own Lactobacillus cultures for AACT and brew 35 gallon batches of AACT at a time.
I also collect BIM's and make a culture from that to use for AACT.
I have read MM's stuff and have come to understand a lot from his work.
You can make a tea from anything...but that's not the basis of keeping it simple as we are told. Had you mentioned that you wanted to use what you had left in your first posting here,I would have probably had a different answer to the questions which made it look like you were unfamilar with the brewing process and the ingredients.
I have made teas using several things that I didn't really need..so I would say that as long as the products you mention are of a natural/organic origin you could make a tea using them,but that's not what we are taught to do by MM,CTguy,and CC,etc...so I merely suggested a common simple tea.
We are a bunch of "do it yourself" types here and a lot of us use different simple variations on the basic AACT recipe.
And as MM has also mentioned,the foam tells you nothing,it can be messy...but that is really nothing in my book to worry about.
I guess these^^^^^ questions are where I thought you weren't experienced with teas,and if you ask how long to brew a tea...that would be a strong indicator that a person wasn't experienced.
I make my own Lactobacillus cultures for AACT and brew 35 gallon batches of AACT at a time.
I also collect BIM's and make a culture from that to use for AACT.
I have read MM's stuff and have come to understand a lot from his work.
You can make a tea from anything...but that's not the basis of keeping it simple as we are told. Had you mentioned that you wanted to use what you had left in your first posting here,I would have probably had a different answer to the questions which made it look like you were unfamilar with the brewing process and the ingredients.
I have made teas using several things that I didn't really need..so I would say that as long as the products you mention are of a natural/organic origin you could make a tea using them,but that's not what we are taught to do by MM,CTguy,and CC,etc...so I merely suggested a common simple tea.
We are a bunch of "do it yourself" types here and a lot of us use different simple variations on the basic AACT recipe.
And as MM has also mentioned,the foam tells you nothing,it can be messy...but that is really nothing in my book to worry about.
