I Shall Retire the Green

I’ve been popping open more and more bottles of my home brew ginger “soda” and again and again, Ramirez is awesome. He’s bubbly, tasty, and delicious. Diggler, on the other hand, just doesn’t seem to work. Even though he had ginger in him, he grew a mother that plopped out into my glass. And again, he had no fizz. I really don’t know what’s wrong with it, but I think I’m going to retire the green tea experiments. I’m not a big fan of them and would rather have more room for the black tea. My only other option is to try a different type of green tea. Right now, I have Diggler brewing in a lemongrass green, but I suspect that won’t be any more of a success since Santos never really bubbled, either. (I’m thinking that’s because of the fruit in the tea.) I presented N. with Pedro, begat from Diggler, in green tea. We’ll see what type of success he has there.

UPDATE: I just cracked open my last bottle of Diggler with ginger and it did, indeed, get some fizz. Perhaps it was the seal on the bottle? I can’t say, but the end result is I still don’t love the flavor as much as Ramirez, and therefore, may retire the flavor anyway.