Carbing Tea with DME

[5mooth0perator]

If I had an herbal tea( an infusion without sugar) I liked, and wanted to try carbing it how much DME/yeast would I add to accomplish this? Could I just add a starter then bottle?

 

[bobeer]

I'd get one of those soda stream things instead of adding DME. If you add DME it will definitely change the taste of the tea. If anything you want something that as 100% fermenatable as you can get. Something like honey or even straight up table sugar.
Use a carbonation calculator to figure out how much sugar you need to add to get however much c02 per bottle. I think batch priming would be the best way to go about this if you're against using a soda stream contraption.

Usually you'd want somewhere around 2.0 c02 vol per bottle. Personally, I wouldn't go past 2.3.

 

[filthyastronaut]

You could probably just use a packet of dry yeast, prime with a calculator for your desired CO2, and bottle like any other beer. Just use ordinary sugar. It's an interesting idea, let us know how it turns out. It would be slightly alcoholic and I'm curious how it would taste.

 

[5mooth0perator]

You could probably just use a packet of dry yeast, prime with a calculator for your desired CO2, and bottle like any other beer. Just use ordinary sugar. It's an interesting idea, let us know how it turns out. It would be slightly alcoholic and I'm curious how it would taste.

The thing is. I'm not sure how effective the yeast would be at such low concentrations, would they even wake up? The tea may make it that much more difficult. I think at priming concentrations alcohol would beyond negligible. I'm guessing a cup or two of sugar/DME in a starter then mixed would get it going just enough. I wonder how much sugar gets consumed during the start. I guess I could split it say half in the tea directly half to get a starter going, then go from there adding more DME to the starter.

 

[oceanic_brew]

The yeast would be very effective. They do the exact same thing when you bottle prime beer. You add x amount of sugar and x amount of yeast ferments it to produce x amount of co2. Of course there are slight differences but it would not matter if it were beer or tea the calculation and amount co2 stays the same.

 

[filthyastronaut]

The thing is. I'm not sure how effective the yeast would be at such low concentrations, would they even wake up? The tea may make it that much more difficult. I think at priming concentrations alcohol would beyond negligible. I'm guessing a cup or two of sugar/DME in a starter then mixed would get it going just enough. I wonder how much sugar gets consumed during the start. I guess I could split it say half in the tea directly half to get a starter going, then go from there adding more DME to the starter.

I think the yeast would be fine, especially with a dry packet with a high enough cell count. DME would definitely affect flavor more, so I would stick with sugar. I would go ahead and give it a try, I bet it'll carbonate just fine.