today you're going to learn how to brew a large boba shop size batch of black tea
that looks beautiful a really really dark brown amber sort of
color Hey guys I'm Kristin the bubble tea queen and welcome to my channel
for this video i will be putting all of the conversions in the description below this
will include the large batch medium small and also individual size just in case you want to
make one drink at a time I've owned successful award-winning bubble tea shops for many years
and in this video you're going to learn how to brew tea majority of bubble tea shops will offer
green tea or black tea for their customers to choose from so in this video today we are going
to make black this is a large hot water urn and these are tea urns every day we brew two full
batches of tea to fill up the entire thing and by the end of the day the majority of it is gone
it's important with bubble tea shops to brew fresh tea every day because believe me there
is a difference in flavor and that's why with all my drink recipes we start off with hot water first
and then add the tea because by the end of the day it might have cooled off a lot to the point where
the ingredients just won't mix well with just the tea it's not going to be warm enough to do
that at that point and at the end of the day you always want to make sure to throw away the old tea
and take your water and clean out the inside of this container really really well that not only
helps with preventing any tea buildup or grime on the inside but also that way the next day when you
go ahead and you put fresh new tea in there you're not carrying any of the old tea into the new tea
preferably at the end of each night after they're completely cleaned out we actually turn them over
so that way any old tea or water will drain out and the whole entire unit will dry overnight all
right so this is the size bag that we get our tea in in bubble tea shops this one is 500 grams
basically you just open it up it's got large pieces of loose leaf tea and it's best to then
store it in an airtight container now however you know we do tend to go through these bags
quite often anyway so it's not a huge deal but just in case we like to store them in airtight
containers that way the tea will remain as fresh as possible all right so here is an open bag
of black tea i just want to pour it into this container so you can see exactly how it looks
really nice and beautiful large leaves and it's loose leaf of course
smells really nice the Assam tea is your basic black tea at a bubble tea shop another dark tea
that is quite popular in bubble tea shops is a dark smoky oolong that one's also very
good i personally love a dark smoky oolong tea i think it's amazing but there are some people who
maybe don't like it in their milk tea so that's why i always think going for a basic black tea
like an Assam is a really good choice in a bubble tea shop there's also other types of
black teas available on the market but just be careful because some of those do actually have
flavoring in them alright so first things first as soon as you arrive to your shop in the morning
you've got to turn on your hot water it takes a while for the whole thing to heat
up so in order to brew our black tea we want our temperature of the water to be 85 degrees Celsius
and or as hot as you can get it on this water urn basically i turn it all the way up
and then as soon as i start to hear it boil then i go ahead and i turn it down a little bit
and that's when i position the water to go into the container however each water system
is completely different so just do what you need to do accordingly while the water is heating I'm
going to go ahead and measure my tea leaves into a separate container for this large batch you're
going to need 125 grams of black tea so I've got my scale I'm going to put the container
on top and hit the tare button i want to make sure that it's on zero and grams okay here we go
all right there we are that's a lot of tea leaves i know but it will make a lot of tea
all right so the first part of course was weighing the tea and that was in grams and the second part
is actually getting the water in terms of volume we're going to be using liters and
milliliters but again for both of those I'm going to be putting the conversions down in
the description below all right so for our black tea we want 85 degrees Celsius or as
hot as you can get it so let's go ahead and pour it out and see where we're at
and i have my water resistant thermometer here I'm just gonna put that in and see where we're going
yeah so it's actually reading about 83 Celsius right now but once we fill the entire
thing with five liters the temperature will be a little bit warmer actually
and then we'll be right on the money so let's go ahead and fill this whole thing up to five liters
all right let's see where we're at
yep it's actually registering at 86 now so that's fine okay so now we're going
to go ahead and put our black tea into our five liters of 85 degrees Celsius hot water
now we want to give it a really good stir we need to make sure that all of the tea
is combined with the water and it's floating around nicely so then that
way the tea can release all of its amazing flavors
next we're going to put a lid on top
this not only helps to keep all of the heat inside but you know we are at a shop there's a lot going
on and the last thing we need is for anyone to bump into this and burn themselves because
believe me this is very hot and last but not least you're going to set a timer for 10 minutes
okay so now it's time for us to pour out our tea so there's a few items that you're
going to need for this step of course you will need your giant insulated tea urn
and then next you will need two of these giant restaurant-grade metal sieves the idea is
that of course these are large loose leaf tea leaves and they shouldn't go through the first
one but if any of them do happen to go through the first one that way the second one will catch
them because as you know um at the end of the day when the tea gets really low sometimes the
little bits will get into the customers drink and it's totally fine they're healthy and
you know it doesn't really bother anybody but it does tend to bother the customers let's just
try to avoid that and make sure we strain out as much of the tea leaves as possible
those just go right there on top the reason why i have a bin right next to it is because
sometimes when you're pouring it in some of it on this end will tend to fall on the ground if
you haven't mopped for the day yet that's fine you can just mop it up but what i like
to do is just have it right there that way as I'm pouring it if any of it does happen
to fall it just falls directly into the bin super easy less cleanup and then of
course a spoon and just a little container that you can put it in right there okay
i like to give it one more stir before i pour it
now using gloves because this is very very hot and the last thing you want is to scald your hands
or your staff hands so definitely i recommend gloves I'm going to grab the sides and pour it in
I'm going to scrape out all the last bit of that tea
and we're going to push down on it lightly with our spoon
this just extracts all of the last bit of juice that's left in the leaves
and very carefully put it in the bin
and again the second one shouldn't have any large bits of tea but it does have a few of the
little ones that i was talking about that kind of end up at the very bottom of the of the tea
urn so we'll just put that there and then right away gonna pop the lid on that way nothing will
accidentally fall into it or no little bits of tea leaves will fall in there and then I'm just going
to wash everything off now keep in mind make sure that none of the tea gets into the sink
because it will clog the drains if you have any little bits that are left on the inside of that
that shouldn't make a huge deal but just remember that it's not a few pieces going in today that's
going to clog the drain but it's a few pieces every single day 365 days a year that will clog
the drain so definitely be careful about that okay so that's about it now just as a reminder that is
for a large batch of tea and if you have a bubble tea shop you're probably going to be doing two of
those every morning then we also have the medium and the small and then of course the individual
and all of those are in the description below along with all of the conversions so the last
thing to do is for us to try our tea let's see how it tastes that looks beautiful a really really
dark brown amber sort of color it's not quite red it's kind of like i said kind of an amber if
you think you know Jurassic park where he finds the mosquito in the amber it's it's literally
that color smells really really strong has that dark deep Assam sort of scent to it
oh yeah wow that is really good this is perfect for a milk tea
as a base right so we're not putting you know 200 300 400 milliliters of this in the beverage
definitely not that would be way too overpowering this is just to accentuate the drink itself so if
we're doing like a classic milk tea or we're doing a mango milk tea we're only putting in about a 100
to 150 milliliters of that and then of course we're diluting it with the ice which then melts
down if you don't know what I'm talking about be sure to check out my other recipes which I'll also
link below but just remember that this is used as a base it's not used as the full volume of
the beverage that's why we're going for a really really concentrated version of this it's just
there to accentuate the flavor of the drink and to really bring out all of the different elements
when you drink it you kind of feel it towards the front and sort of in the middle of your
tongue by the time it gets to the back you don't really notice it there's a lingering aftertaste
there's kind of a boldness and a richness that lingers afterwards which is really interesting
and that's exactly what we want to give our customers we want to give them a taste
experience that they can't get from anywhere else and this is the way to do that well guys
thanks so much for joining me today as i made this delicious Assam black tea for a large
size at a boba shop I'm so excited that you guys joined me please feel free to leave a comment
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