Flavoring from... Tea?

[NateHevens]

I haven't embarked on the DIY e-juice journey yet, but I'm slowly gathering the required learning materials to eventually start on that journey, when I have more time and space.

What I'm wondering is this:

I have found tea flavors before, but they're always generic ("green tea") and often sweet (fine, of course, but more variety would be nice), and being a tea fanatic (specifically whites, yellows, green, and green oolongs), I know that there's no such thing as generic "green tea". For example... gyokuro and longjing are two different types of green teas with different flavors and smells and such. Hell, they aren't even from the same country! Gyokuro is Japanese. Longjing is Chinese.

So let's say I wanted to create a favoring for e-juice based specifically on Gyokuro. And I don't want it to be sweet. How would I go about that?

 

[Dave_in_OK]

I do a Chamomile extraction that the wife loves as well as others.

 

[Slots]

So let's say I wanted to create a favoring for e-juice based specifically on Gyokuro. How would I go about that?

All you need is your favorite tea ( loose), glass 30 ml bottle, PG, microwave, and a paper coffee strainer

Fill the 30 ml glass bottle about 1/2 way with the tea.
Any size bottle will work if you want to make more.
Fill the rest with PG.
Leaving the lid off, place it in the mic for about 10-20 seconds.
The PG will heat fast, so watch it.
Remove. Let cool for about 30 minutes.
The tea will absorb most of the PG so at this point, fill the bottle back up with PG.
Set it in a coffee cup filled with hot water for about 20 minutes.
Remove and strain through a coffee filter into clean container/bottle.
Just rubber band the filter to a pint jar and pour the mix in.
It may take overnight to completely drain.
Walla! You have your very own tea extract to use as flavoring.
The longer you let the tea "soak" in the PG before straining, the stronger it will get.
Some leave it until the next day.
This works with coffee grounds too, and there are lots of nice flavored coffees you can buy in the small size bags.

When making your juice, I would start with 5% of the tea extract and move up from there for desired strength.

 

[NateHevens]

All you need is your favorite tea ( loose), glass 30 ml bottle, PG, microwave, and a paper coffee strainer

Fill the 30 ml glass bottle about 1/2 way with the tea.
Any size bottle will work if you want to make more.
Fill the rest with PG.
Leaving the lid off, place it in the mic for about 10-20 seconds.
The PG will heat fast, so watch it.
Remove. Let cool for about 30 minutes.
The tea will absorb most of the PG so at this point, fill the bottle back up with PG.
Set it in a coffee cup filled with hot water for about 20 minutes.
Remove and strain through a coffee filter into clean container/bottle.
Just rubber band the filter to a pint jar and pour the mix in.
It may take overnight to completely drain.
Walla! You have your very own tea extract to use as flavoring.
The longer you let the tea "soak" in the PG before straining, the stronger it will get.
Some leave it until the next day.
This works with coffee grounds too, and there are lots of nice flavored coffees you can buy in the small size bags.

When making your juice, I would start with 5% of the tea extract and move up from there for desired strength.

Ah... okay.

I'd have to be careful, here, though, especially with Gyokuro. It's a rather delicate tea... it's usually not brewed at temperatures above 140F, and for somewhere on the order of 30 seconds to two minutes (with longer times at lower temperatures). Would that factor into it, or do these things change with flavor extraction?

 

[Slots]

Ah... okay.
I'd have to be careful, here, though, especially with Gyokuro. It's a rather delicate tea... it's usually not brewed at temperatures above 140F, and for somewhere on the order of 30 seconds to two minutes (with longer times at lower temperatures). Would that factor into it, or do these things change with flavor extraction?

That I can't answer. I'm not familiar with Gyokuro
You only want it to warm enough in the microwave to get the tea leaves to start releasing their flavor.
Just zap it 5 seconds at a time and then feel how warm it is
I did coffee grounds in just a plastic juice bottle .. your NOT cooking it
If I were you, I'd give it a try using just a small amount .. maybe doing it in a 15oz bottle size, and see if it works
You'll never know unless you try it .. just stay small, and don't go overboard until you've tested it.
Being a delicate flavored tea as you say, it may not be a good choice to use for extracting.
Maybe fill the bottle 3/4 full of tea to start with.
You're not going to get much flavored juice out of it then, ... but it may give it more flavor, and enough to mix up and try a vape.
But I wouldn't give up until I tried it
You'll have to PM me, and let me know how the "lab experiment" went