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I am thinking of making a Green Tea Pale Ale with Jasmine. I have had plenty of Green Tea in my day, but have limited experience with adding green tea or jasmine to beer. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations as a starting point with both ingredients. I will probably add them both loose leaf as a flame out/WP addition, quite possibly dry hop with one or both of them as well. Likely a very simple pale ale recipe base with some low additions of NW hops late in the boil. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hoser

I added tropical green tea to a Saison. I used about an ounce of teabags at flameout for a 5 gallon batch. I think I would start with a similar amount of jasmine, or find jasmine green tea at the supermarket, and use an ounce. I prefer teabagging er, I mean the tea bags.

I would defitely start with looking up recipies for green tea ice cream as far as a method of extracting the green tea flavor out of the leaves - I would be worried about boiling the leaves too long and getting a tanic flavor in your beer. I would probably also forgo the late addition hops so you can let the green tea/jasmine shine since they stricke me as pretty delicate flavors (maybe do a ten gallon batch and then a split boil one with late hop additions, one without?)

sounds tasty!