Hey there guys, Candice from Crema
Coffee Garage here. Today we're going to
be taking a look at another one of the
fantastic alternate brewing products
that we have available at Crema Coffee
Garage. This is the filter in bottle from
Hario.
The Hario filter in bottle has been
specifically designed to give you the
ability to make cold brew tea from the
comfort of your own home. Now, for those
of you not familiar with cold brew tea,
I'm sure you've heard about cold brew
coffee.
So cold brew tea works in a very similar way
for very similar benefits. You're
replacing heat with time to get an end
result that is much sweeter in flavour
and a lot less of those bitter notes and
let's face it in the heat of an
Australian summer we'd much prefer a
cold iced coffee or a cold iced tea.
Another added benefit of cold brew tea
is that when you're using a caffeinated
tea to make it, you'll actually have a
lower caffeine content in your end
result, as it's the hot water that aids
in the release of that caffeine in the
first place.
So this will make cold brew tea the
perfect drink for anyone out there who
has a sensitivity to caffeine. So let's
take a closer look at the design. It's a
stylish wine bottle shape, which I think
is perfect especially for a
sophisticated look for home, but if
you're ever at a dinner party and you're
just not in the mood for drinking wine
or alcohol with your friends, you can
still have this stylish bottle made up
with your cold brew tea sitting on the
table and you won't feel left out. So
there's a glass bottle underneath and if
we remove this here, this is a silicon
rubber top and inside the silicon rubber
top is a plastic filter. So this will
eventually be what filters out the tea
when we're pouring it later. So that just
simply locks in with the two little tabs
here and the silicon stopper on the top,
which looks very very similar to a wine
cork. So why don't we make one. So first
of all, you are going to want to take
your tea of choice - I'm using this
special new release from Tea Drop.
They've just released some really
beautiful, Summer-y, floral flavours. This
one I'm using today is called
Birthday Cake, which just sounds
delicious!
So ingredients-wise, it's got some apple
pieces, hibiscus, beetroot, rosehip, a bit of
marigold petals, a bit of blackberry
leaves and is just... perfect for cold brew
tea
So, but, you can use any loose leaf tea
that you have at home or you could even
use tea bags if you really wanted to.
There's nothing wrong with that and that
would actually probably make the cleanup
a little bit easier for you later.
Not that it's a hard one anyway, but just
some extra, extra tips there. So you're
going to want roughly around 15 to 20 grams
of the loose leaf tea. I'm just going to
pour that straight in and I'm just going to
shake that a little bit at the bottom so
we can get a nice even coating. So next
we're going to want to pour our water in.
I've got this straight from the fridge
however if you don't have that in the
fridge that's fine, you can get the water
straight from the tap. I do recommend
filtered water though, you will find it
does make a difference to the flavour of
the end result. So if you've got access
to the filtered water great, if not it
will still taste beautiful, don't stress.
So, we're just going to want to pour the water
in up to this top square at the top here.
So that's about your 750 mL mark and I'm
going to rotate the bottle as I go
because I find that sometimes a little
bit easier to control than this top
water canister and the reason I'm doing
this is I want to get a full even
coating on the loose leaf tea and some
of the gorgeous petals and you'll
already see this beautiful rosy pink
colour here.
Then all you need to do is just make
sure that the plastic filter is
secured on tight, then I'm just going to
place it over the top there.
You'll hear the air escape as you push
it down, make sure your rubber stops
fully in and that's just going to go
into the fridge. Now you want to put it
at a minimum of three hours in the
fridge, you can put it in there for
longer, obviously the longer you'll leave
it the stronger it will become. So it's
really down to personal preference. If
you're trying it for the first time pop
it in for the three hours, take it out,
make yourself a glass and see what you
think and you can always put it back and
leave it in there for longer. So I'm
going to pop this one in the fridge and
we're going to check what it looks like
in about three hours time. So here it is
guys, three hours later and just straight
away you can see the colour difference
there and that's due to that extra
brewing time. So don't forget you can
leave it longer if you like but I wanted
to pull it out and show you what we've
got. So, because of that built-in plastic
filter, all you need to do now is pop the
cork and pour yourself a glass, it will
strain the leaves as you pour. Now you
could also pour it over ice if you
wanted that cool temperature to last
longer. If you take a little bit longer
to drink your tea, like we mentioned
earlier, you could always brew your tea
for a longer timeframe and then it's more
concentrated and you can pour it over
ice and then as the ice melts it becomes
the perfect drinking flavour and
temperature for you. Now if you're
brewing this for yourself at home and
you might take a couple of days to get
through it, obviously the longer you
leave it the stronger it will therefore
become. Now obviously the tea will reach
a point where no more flavour can be
extracted from it, but do just keep in
mind that once you get to those last few
cups you may need to add some ice or
some extra water just to bring it back
to the to the flavour and the strength of
it that you like. As for the cleanup it's
really simple, once it's all finished all
you have to do is pour out the used tea
leaves, give it a nice hot soapy wash or
it can actually go in the dishwasher,
which is an awesome added bonus if you
ask me and then you're ready to brew
again.
That's it for the Hario filter in bottle,
a great one when it comes to cold brew
tea. So if you like, you can head on over
to our website cremacoffeegarage.com.au
and you can shop this baby. Perfect
present for any of your tea-loving
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