Honeybush "Tea" for Beer

[Ratdog]

I bought a pound of honeybush "tea" and I just love it. To me, it has a pleasant, mild sweetness and has the taste and aroma of freshly fallen autumn leaves. I'd really like to brew a fall beer with it, but I'm struggling to find any information on using it in beer. Honeybush is supposedly a cousin of rooibos, but information on brewing with rooibos is also hard to come by.

Does anyone have experience brewing with either that they can share? Thank you!

 

[cmac62]

Honeybush Vanilla B3DM (Bray’s 3 Day Mead) not using in a beer, but here is one using it in a mead.

I've never used it, but if I did I would make my beer a little stronger and add some strong tea when packaging/kegging/bottling. Good luck

 

[Ratdog]

Thanks. That might be a tasty mead, but I think it would be overkill if scaled up for beer.

I decided on a 100% pilsner malt Munich Helles, and added 24 grams of honeybush tea leaves in the 5.5 gallon batch. 8 grams of tea was added at 15, 10, and 5 minutes remaining in the boil. I'll report back on the finished beer.