Red berry tea bag wine.

[GazzaW57]

I started this on Wednesday and it seems to be going well. I got the tea bags from Lidl.

Sweet Red Berry Fruit Tea Wine Recipe ( 3 ingredients – 25p a bottle) – Erica's Little Welsh Garden

https://ericas.little-welsh.garden/...erry-fruit-tea-wine-easy-3-ingredient-recipe/

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Tea bag and supermarket juice wine recipes and methods used to be regularly discussed here but they died a bit of a death a few years ago when cheap kits made it so easy to make wine people stopped messing with tea bags and juice nice to see them brought back from the dead.

 

[GazzaW57]

Tea bag and supermarket juice wine recipes and methods used to be regularly discussed here but they died a bit of a death a few years ago when cheap kits made it so easy to make wine people stopped messing with tea bags and juice nice to see them brought back from the dead.

I won’t be using anything other than the teabags, sugar and yeast. It’ll be interesting see how it comes out. SG was 1.100.

 

[soupdragon]

I started this on Wednesday and it seems to be going well. I got the tea bags from Lidl.

Sweet Red Berry Fruit Tea Wine Recipe ( 3 ingredients – 25p a bottle) – Erica's Little Welsh Garden

https://ericas.little-welsh.garden/...erry-fruit-tea-wine-easy-3-ingredient-recipe/

That looks a nice red colour. Is it just the lighting or is it really that deep a red?

Cheers Tom

 

[GazzaW57]

That looks a nice red colour. Is it just the lighting or is it really that deep a red?

Cheers Tom

It really is that colour. It’s going to look nice at the very least!!

 

[soupdragon]

It really is that colour. It’s going to look nice at the very least!!

I think I need to give that a go

Cheers Tom

 

[fluketamer]

i make a cherry apple cider using these tea bags for additional tannin and flavor/ aroma

the aroma is really strong with this. it works great in cider. i have a feeling this would make a great fruit tea bag wine. especially back sweetened with some additional fruit juice,

 

[GazzaW57]

i make a cherry apple cider using these tea bags for additional tannin and flavor/ aroma

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the aroma is really strong with this. it works great in cider. i have a feeling this would make a great fruit tea bag wine. especially back sweetened with some additional fruit juice,

That looks good. I’m going to see how the current one turns out and go from there. I’m not going to add anything to it. I’ve seen some older mentions of adding a small amount of tea to add tannin, but I’d rather try it in its ‘unadulterated state’ and then think about adding to any future brews I may do.

 

[GazzaW57]

Just an update - the red berry tea bag wine is still bubbling away in the demijohn. There’s movement in the airlock every 30 seconds or so and it shows no sign of stopping.

 

[GazzaW57]

I need advice please. My tea bag wine has stopped fermenting after many weeks, but the hydrometer reading is 1038, which is a tad high to say the least. I kept the temperature steady as I used a heat pad to ensure there were no fluctuations. What should I do please?

 

[Nicks90]

You could try dissolving 100g granulated sugar into some boiled water with a good dose of yeast nutrient and once it's cooled gently stir it in.
This can sometimes wake the yeast up enough to crack on

 

[GazzaW57]

You could try dissolving 100g granulated sugar into some boiled water with a good dose of yeast nutrient and once it's cooled gently stir it in.
This can sometimes wake the yeast up enough to crack on

Thank you, I might try that.

 

[LottieWine]

I had a problem with a batch of gooseberry wine. It stopped fermenting at 1020. In the end I used a restart yeast which is tolerant of alcohol at the start of fermentation. It seems to have done the trick. My gooseberry wine is now at .990.

 

[GazzaW57]

Thank you. I’m popping to the home brew shop tomorrow to see what they have.

 

[fluketamer]

1.038 seems high. are you using refractometer or hydrometer. most of my wines finish up by this time and you should be around 1.
does it taste sweet . it should taste noticeably sweet at that gravity. if not i suspect its lower than you are measuring.

did you use any nutrient?

 

[GazzaW57]

1.038 seems high. are you using refractometer or hydrometer. most of my wines finish up by this time and you should be around 1.
does it taste sweet . it should taste noticeably sweet at that gravity. if not i suspect its lower than you are measuring.

did you use any nutrient?

It is high. I’m using a hydrometer and I’m at a loss to know why it’s still so high. It bubbled away for over 3 weeks, so I was expecting it to be much, much lower. TBH, I haven’t tasted it as I usually trust my hydrometer. As for nutrient, no. I used tea bags, sugar and yeast - nothing else.

 

[fluketamer]

strange i havent really had fruit juice wines fail to finish completely dry.

i would still taste it just to see if its drier than you are measuring.

the lack of nutrient may have caused an issue.

as stated above i would repitch a alcohol tolerant yeastor just repitch with some sugar nutrient and a good swirl.

 

[GazzaW57]

It does still taste sweet so I bought a re-start wine yeast and added it to the demijohn. We’ll see how it goes.

 

[LottieWine]

The instructions for the restart yeast that I bought was to hydrate the yeast in water with sugar and yeast nutrient, wait 24hrs, then add a some of the stuck wine. I added a bit more of the stuck wine, waited another 24 hours before adding the liquid back into the Demijohn. The restart yeast came in a sachet. I didn’t need to use all of it (just a teaspoon) so I have put the rest into a small container and will use it in the future if I have this problem again.
https://ka5um0.c2.acecdn.net/media/wysiwyg/pdf/Restart-a-fermentation.pdf

 

[Chippy_Tea]

What a faff.

Rehydrate some dry yeast using this method -