Peach Tea-bag Wine

corby_brewer · Oct 12, 2009

Evening all

Ater a recent visit to France i came back with a box of Peche cassis, peach tea-bags.
And im planning on making a galon of wine from them. Here is what im planning -

25 peche cassis
1 ltr white grape juice
the juice from 2 lemons
the juice from 1 orange
(the above is in place of critric acid)
1 lb minced rasins
1 1/2 kilo of sugar
youngs wine yeast
yougs yeast nutiants

Please let me know what you think and if it would work or not.

Thanks in advance
Davssiv

lazydog · Oct 12, 2009

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i did this on 13sept and its still fermenting well i think i need to rack again soon and its started to clear!

Moley · Oct 13, 2009

Sounds good Dave, except for the sugar.

You've got about 5 oz in the grape juice and 10 oz in those raisins, so I would use no more than 2lbs sugar at the start.

corby_brewer · Oct 13, 2009

Moley said:
Sounds good Dave, except for the sugar.

You've got about 5 oz in the grape juice and 10 oz in those raisins, so I would use no more than 2lbs sugar at the start.

Thanks Moley. :thumb:

corby_brewer · Oct 19, 2009

Im going to start this tonight, and was wondering if it would be worth mincing the raisins and the boiling them for half an hour in two pints of water to extract the sugars and then adding the liquid to the demi john containing the grape juice and the water from the tea bags, or just mincing them and adding to a bucket and letting everything ferment in the bucket for a week or two and then add it to the demi john.

Thanks in advance
Davesiv

Moley · Oct 19, 2009

If you're talking about 1 gallon in a 5+ gallon bucket I think I'd be inclined to mince them and chuck everything in together in a DJ or 5 litre PET.

corby_brewer · Oct 19, 2009

well its all done. ended up infusing the tea bags in 1 ltr of boiling water untill it cooled. Also i boiled the rasins in 3 ltrs of water for 1/2 and hour instead of adding them to the DJ, only had to add 1 and a 1/2 pound of sugar to get the SG up to 1.090. I used the juice fro 2 lemons and 1 orange instead of citric acid. Its early days but its got a very nice peach smell to it.