 Welcome back to eccentric nature and my tea of the day! Oh yeah! Today I've got peppermint and rose. Forget I do a rose one since I just did the benefits of rose. So what I really want to talk about today is blending herbs, specifically fresh herbs. And when I'm talking about these you have the major four which are the mints, particularly peppermint, rosemary, thyme, and sage. And those are really considered stronger herbs that if you overbrew them at all they can get a little bit bitter or too strong. Peppermint out of those four is probably the least likely to get bitter, but it is still possible if you accidentally add in some of the stems or something along those lines that it can get that way. Same thing can be said for any herbal roots you're using like dandelion root or any other roots that you actually can use from the herbs themselves. So there are certain ones that you can use just the stems or even the roots out of them. And definitely if you're brewing roots they can easily get much more bitter because they're always stronger when you're talking about the roots. So anything that's that strong you only want to have to be a smaller percentage of your tea overall if you're going to taste the blend properly, right? So with this case where I've got the peppermint and the rose, rose being a very light flavor I could you know you could blend just the rose by itself and have a very very light taste kind of like a white tea where you aren't getting much of anything out of it other than the fragrance of it. And so it's very important that when you're putting them together that you generally take at least two to three times more of the lighter herb compared to the heftier herb. So in this case if I got the peppermint you'd say maybe use one teaspoon of peppermint to three teaspoons of rose essentially. If you really want to taste the rose properly. If you just want to have it as an accent flavor that's fine. You can just put some in there and just have it accent the flavor. But if you want to taste the balance between the flavors then you really need to add a lot more of the lighter one otherwise it's going to get overwhelmed by the stronger herb. And Sage, Rosemary are definitely going to do that to you. I think more than any others those two in particular can easily overwhelm any other herb. Thyme or regular peppermint all are in that same area where they can do that to you. Just not quite as much but it's definitely something to consider. If you're looking at blending herbs and just creating your own out of your own garden or if you've managed to just buy some even dry ones in this case where if you just buy dry peppermint and you've just buy dry dried rose or you know any of the other lighter ones or flowers. I mean you could say basil's I don't tend to use as much in tea but you can use some like Tulsi basil and the cinnamon basil. They're very good for tea still and you consider those a little bit more on the lighter side as well. Yeah I mean overall the main thing that you want to consider is just unless it's an accent flavor always have a lot more of it in there in order to balance it out because the peppermint is so strong. It's just like how it's invasive for a garden. It can be invasive for the tea as well so you want to just many things out even it out to make it work better. Now this blend in particular I love it. I love having these two together. It also works really good with lavender in there as well so peppermint lavender and rose is a nice blend as well and that's generally how I'll work it. With most of my blends like this is I like to take one stronger one and then add a couple lighter flavors in there just to see what happens. Sometimes I'll just be like let's take some of this some of that throw a little bit of everything in there and it'll still taste great. So the main thing is is you can just have fun putting mixing and matching and playing around especially if you aren't taking one of these major ones that are really strong that can easily get overbrewed because when you're talking sage and you're talking rosemary in particular three to five minutes really is your max before they start getting bitter in brew time. The other one's peppermint essentially could go longer and so could time a little bit. Time can very much get that woody overtaste after five minutes so it's seven minutes tops on time. Oregano kind of the same way in that range as well. Three to seven minutes max. It can go a touch longer but I wouldn't go too far with it you know but any of the other ones when you're all the other herbs you have the flowers especially almost any flower except for something like hibiscus that has a really strong fruity flavor they can all go a lot longer on their brew time so that's why you have to have that balance in there because the longer it can handle a brew time it means generally it means is the lighter the flavor is or the easier it is to get overwhelmed by a stronger herb so just it just things to consider if you're playing around with teas and you've got some stuff you want just to experiment and throw in together I'm gonna stop there with that because I got some shout outs I want to do. Whoo let's shout it out. Shout out number one. This one's going out to Perkins Life 4. Told you I'd do this a little while back it's just been a while since I've done some shout outs so Perkins Life 4. Here you go here's your shout out and these guys they like to do some mukbang some cooking videos most recently he's been doing a whole bunch of cool aquaponics videos on his new aquaponics system so if any of you guys are into that stuff or hydroponics you could be checking him out and see what he's doing with his system really cool stuff. Check him out. Shout out number two. Deborah Cabasa actually does she does a lot of shout outs herself as well she generally tends to do like at least one a week where she'll do like a whole list the names of good channels to go check out but she also does lots of those haul videos so thrift store hauls and things like that showing things that she got and also lots of DIY videos she's really cool at the different things that she creates for her house and stuff so if you're into any of those DIY things for your house most more with like crafty things you know not like building huge old tables and different things like that that's not her DIY area she does more really cool craft DIY stuff and yeah I really like her stuff black and tan not not the beer thingy black and tan no this is the channel black and tan I can't remember exactly what his breed is he looks like he's a doberman doberman mix of some kind he's definitely has that look of a doberman overall but maybe not exactly completely doberman you'll have to let me know but his name's Bruce he's a cool dog he's recently been through some tough stuff had to get a little bit of surgery done yeah if you want to check out some cool dog videos go give him a look that would bring us to shout out number four this one's going out to turnings by Turner and this guy is one heck of a craftsman he does all these really cool things with wood primarily builds things with other items in mind too so it's like he does combination but I can't explain it properly I have to go see his channel and find out oh my god but he's like made shaving kits hummingbird feeders pill boxes saxophone mouthpieces I mean all kinds of things aromatherapy necklace I mean come on how cool is that so he makes all these really cool things primarily with some kind of a wood base that he creates to mix in with the other parts so check it out really cool things that he makes shout out number five out west homestead this one's pretty clear as far as what it says on the tent obviously there are home bunch of homesteaders and they actually do a little some shout-outs they go over their food forest and all different kinds of things with their place things with birds they had a little snake action recently so all those fun things that happen with homesteaders you like homesteaders check them out it's the final shout out final shout out time this one's going out to my new gal Liz brusso I love that name brusso and she actually does YouTube tips and she's like in a real-life job and stuff did primarily things with marketing and stuff already and it started doing YouTube tips and she's got some really interesting unique insights that I haven't seen a lot of other people who do tips before that's what I really like most about her why I've really started going on to her channel she has a unique edge really has a special way of looking at things and gives you some interesting different insights on how to approach your tags and how to approach marketing your channel to different people to help try and grow you so you're looking for new ways to grow this brusso is the way to go see that arrived I can do that well all right my friends that's it for the video today I hope you enjoyed all my little tea advice if you have any questions or let me know in the comment section down below otherwise go check out those channels please take care of each other and you guys have a wonderful day