Nitro Infused Tea

I have been experimenting infusing cold brewed tea with nitrous recently and was really wondering if anyone else has ever tried this? I essentially used the same process of “kegging” a beer to make the nitro infused tea. We made the cold brew, put it into a keg, and hooked the keg up to a nitro tap.

The resulting tea had an amazing mouthfeel because of the milky head that nitro beers have. I’d say the tea was slightly more sweet, but that might have been because of the cold brew having a chance to chill and sit for a lengthy period of time. I am doing another trial with a ripe puerh soon.

I am really new to the beer world but am super interested. Does anybody have any advice or suggestions they could offer about the process?

Link to my full blog post: http://www.teapeople.us/labs/2016/2/23/nitro-tea-on-tap

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How much nitro infused drinks can I have before it is dangerous?

Liquid Proust,

Im not super clear on the restrictions of consuming nitrogen with tea. I know that many bars have beer from a nitrogen tap and people drink plenty of that!

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Brian said

just send me the nitrous and the tea separate. thanks.

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Brian said

im guessing you mean Nitrogen to run the keg. not nitrous.

mrmopar said

It’s nitrogen not nitro. I doubt they could obtain nitro easily.

AllanK said

Plus it wouldn’t taste very good in tea.

Brian,
Im actually not super clear on the difference. Nitrogen is most likely the correct term. Could you explain the difference?

You are correct about using nitrogen to run the keg. Do you think that wouldnt be considered “infusing” tea with nitrogen?

mrmopar said

I think he means Nitrous Oxide , laughing gas as opposed to Nitrogen as the correct term. NO2 is highly flammable where as Nitrogen is not.

Rasseru said

and liquid nitrogen tea would be totally weird

AllanK said

The word nitro usually means nitro-glycerin, in small doses good for your heart, otherwise an explosive.

mrmopar said

Nitrous is instant horsepower sprayed into a cars combustion chamber. Got to pull back the timing curve and jet it rich cause it burns hot, hard and fast. Get it too lean and it will burn a hole in a piston.

Rasseru said

@allan, yeah I was going to say TNT, but apparently not, but dynamite yes. often used interchangeably by people like me who dont use explosives :D

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