Sterilise your hands and utensils with vinegar every time you work with your Jun Tea – Happy Brewing!
Heat 10 cups Spring Water to just below boiling point (bubbles form and floats up). Turn off the heat
and add 4 bags of Green Tea.
Steep for 10 – 15 minutes. Remove tea bags and allow to cool slightly.
Dissolve 2 thirds cup of raw Honey in your prepared tea. Allow to cool to room temperature.
Sterilise a 3l Consol jar with white vinegar. Add the contents of this jar (scoby as well as fluid) to the
jar and fill up with the cooled sweet tea. Cover with a clean cotton cloth and secure with a rubber band. Your brew needs to breath – do not cover with the lid.
Allow to stand undisturbed for 4 – 7 days out of direct sunlight. After 4 days start tasting it to determine
when you like the taste best.
Once it is ready, remove the old and newly formed scoby from your brew. Pour off and save 2 cups of Jun Tea for your next brew (this we call the Starter Tea). Pour the rest of the Jun Tea into bottles (This is the liquid that you will
drink) and flavour to taste.
Add the 2 saved cups of Starter Tea, one of the Scobies and another batch of freshly brewed sweet tea to your 3l container and repeat the process.
Store your finished Jun Tea in the fridge.
You might be tempted to brew in a plastic container – please use glass.
Fermented drinks contain acids which will cause the plastic to degrade and leach into the brew and you might end up hurting rather than healing yourself.
Next you will be tempted to start a continuous brew in a beverage dispenser that you bought for dispensing water or cooldrink. Again, please do not, even though the container might be glass you will need to replace the plastic tap
with a Stainless-Steel spigot made specifically for fermenting drinks (or brewing beer). You can order these from Amazon and use it with your existing glass dispenser.
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