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Recipe:

1 bag of black tea

190ml hot water

40ml apple juice

0.5 teaspoon of salt

 Brewer's advice: Let the tea brew for 3 - 5 minutes.
Taste: It has strong salt with a tender apple flavour and light bitterness. It tastes specific as if it would be used seawater.
Smell: Strong apple, enjoyable

Colour: Beautifully amber, cloudy
Additional notes: If you want to reduce salt taste then use salt in smaller portions.

Assam tea has been used as an example of black tea. You can use any black tea for your brew.

As longer black tea bag will be infused in the water as stronger bitter flavour gets.

03/12/23

Recipe:

1 bag of black tea

190ml hot water

40ml apple juice

0.5 teaspoon of salt

0.5 teaspoon of sugar
Brewer's advice: Let the tea brew for 3 - 5 minutes.

Taste: Bizzare dominated by salt and sugar, tenderly apple and bitterness It is very unpleasant making my face pinch
Smell:
Colour:
Additional info: I would recommend reducing salt and sugar portions to make a more pleasurable taste.

It was so bad taste, I was not able to finish this cup.

Assam tea has been used as an example of black tea. You can use any black tea for your brew.

As longer black tea bag will be infused in the water as stronger bitter flavour gets.

03/12/23

Recipe:

1 bag of black tea.

230ml hot water.

10g black bean garlic sauce.

Brewer's advice: Brew the tea for 1 – 3 min for medium strength and 3 – 5 min or longer for a stronger brew. 

Taste: Salted, garlic.

Smell: Black beans, garlic, tenderly sweet.

Colour: Dark Amber, cloudy with white bits in it.

Additional notes: Judged by the smell, initially, I thought that it would not be a bad brew. Thought, I was wrong about it. Interestingly bean and garlic sauce strongly overlapped bitter, favour so I could not detect bitterness.

 If you want to feel the brew less salted, I assume, you should add just 5g of black bean garlic sauce. In this case, it might be able to sense bitterness as well.

I am sure that after drinking this brew, you might wish to eat something that destructs you from unpleasant flavours in your mouth.

14/02/24

Recipe:

1 bag of black tea.

200ml hot water.

30ml black olive brine.

Brewer's advice: Brew the tea for 1 – 3 min for medium strength and 3 – 5 min or longer for a stronger brew. 

Taste: Bitter with unbearably black olive brine flavour, leaving dryness in the mouth in the aftertaste.

Colour: Dark, cloudy amber.

Smell: Bitter with tender black olive brine aroma.

Additional notes: The flavour was horrible. Nevertheless, I think that the flavours were nicely balanced.

11/02/24

Recipe:

2 nags of Tesco green tea

225ml hot water

5ml sweet Chinese hoisin

Brewer's advice: Brew the tea for 1 – 3 min for medium strength and 3 – 5 min or longer for a stronger brew. 

Taste: Tender Chinese hoisin flavour with a strong green tea taste, unpleasant.

Smell: Gentle sweet Chinese sauce.

Colour: Dark amber, cloudy.

Additional notes: The taste was weird and unenjoyable. Do not stir it before drinking as the flavour will go very bitter and awkward and worse.  

18/12/23

Recipe:

2 nags of Tesco green tea

225ml hot water

5ml oyster sauce

Brewer's advice: Brew the tea for 1 – 3 min for medium strength and 3 – 5 min or longer for a stronger brew. 

Taste: Gentle oyster sauce with green tea flavours.

Smell: Tender oyster sauce 

Colour: Bright amber, cloudy.

Additional notes: It was an unenjoyable brew. If we want it to worsen, we need to add salt.

 Also, do not stir before you drink it to not make the brew worse for drinking.

18/12/23

Recipe:

1 bag of peppermint tea.

20ml orange juice.

210ml hot water.

Brewer's advice: Soak the tea bag for 1 – 3 min for medium strength and 3 – 5 min or longer for a stronger brew and add orange juice

Taste: Orange juice was dominating the flavour leaving long-lasting freshness in the mouth.

Smell: Peppermint.

Colour: Bright amber with orange bits in it, cloudy.

Additional notes: Generally this combination did not work. I was pretty sure that orange juice is a perfect companion to every tea.

 At the beginning, I tried 15ml orange juice with 215ml hot water. The brew was almost undrinkable. I was curious how it would taste with 20ml orange juice. It worked better, but still bad.

 Also, the brew appearance was not the most exciting with floating orange bits in it.

 This is not the brew I would repeat.

05/04/24