Brewing Fermented Wintergreen Tea | Wild Food Foraging

Wintergreen is one of those plants you often see on the forest floor and frequently overlook, but it’s actually great for making a minty tea! In this video, we pick wintergreen berries and leaves, add them to water and ferment them for three days, then brew it into a delicious, piping hot tea over the open campfire.

What is fermentation? It is any metabolic process in which microorganisms’ activity creates a desirable change in food and beverages, whether it’s increasing flavor, preserving foodstuffs, providing health benefits, or more. (source: www.masterclass.com)

To see how to make wintergreen tea in just minutes, without the fermentation process, check out my other video here:    • Brewing Wintergreen Tea — Delicious, Minty...  

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