Tea Bag Wine

[kingchristo]

Hello everyone for my next wine I would like to give a go with flavoured tea bags does anyone have a base recipe that I can follow sorry if this has been asked before

 

[elderberry]

Hello everyone for my next wine I would like to give a go with flavoured tea bags does anyone have a base recipe that I can follow sorry if this has been asked before

a simple one from the CCCCCCCJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ berry book is

10 tea bags
1250gm sugar
1 tea spood citric acid
throw it all in a bucket with 2 litres of boiling water, leave to mash and cool
pour into a demi john and top up to the neck line

i start mine off at 1035sg and finish it at 1003sg

its a cheap quick clean medium sweet rose or white wine at 12% ish

and thats it, i dont add any thing else nor do i bother with any thing else,

if you stick to the recipe exactly they call for 8 tea bags but i buy the asda fruit teas i buy are in boxes of 20 bags so i use half

people do add grape juice but i dont bother as for me its a fast house wine

i started a few on the 9/12/15 which have all ready fermentated out and have started to clear, we normally turn it out in 5 weeks start to finish

at the moment we have
earl grey
leamon and ginger
apple and cherry
strawberry and forest fruits
cranberry and orange
peppermint and liquirice

 

[kingchristo]

do you add the yeast when you put this into the dj

 

[cheapbrew]

yeah it wont do much without yeast,
and I agree, my rule of thumb is its one bag per mug of tea (approx 500ml) so you would need 10 to make 5000ml for a dj, OR keep your used tea bags (drink the tea a bonus) in a plastic tub and use two to three times the amount, and this has reminded me I was gonna do a lady grey one.

 

[kingchristo]

thanks think ill get one of these on the go on monday

 

[richs20a]

How do you get that alc percentage when sg was so low??

 

[dps51]

think I have a go at this as swmbo drink a lot of tea so she may like this one

 

[Bernardsmit]

How do you get that alc percentage when sg was so low??

Apologies if I am resurrecting the dead but I agree - a starting gravity of 1.035 has a potential ABV of about 4.5% or about 1/3 of what the OP suggested. A "session wine" perhaps, and something that could be quaffed by the pint rather than sipped by the glass.

 

[Personal91]

For a 5 gallon batch just times by 5 so 50 tea bags and 6.25-50 kegs of sugar roughly , I think either some raisins or yeast nutrient would do, and also add the sugar in increments !

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Bump.

 

[Frogbrew]

Reading this I thought I'd get one going while I was doing nowt. Not many seem to do these tea wines anymore but I've done quite a few in the past and the Mrs likes em.
10 lemon/ginger teabags. Stewed 30 mins.
1ltr apple juice 100%
2 TSP frozen chopped ginger just because I had some.
890g sugar dissolved in pan with water.(making 1000g total sugars Inc aj)
1tsp nutrient, 0.5tsp pectolase.
I x 5g pack cml wine yeast(rehydrated 10 mins).
Didn't bother with citric this time as teabags have lemon.

Yeast to add when it cools a bit.
Sg 1100. Fg hopefully 990-1000.

 

[IzzyWizzy666]

Just started a similar wine tho' mine uses Manuka Honey and Camomile tea bags (Morrisons) and 1.3L of Apple and Elderflower juice, 800g Sugar, 1/4tsp Tannin, 1tsp nutrient, 1tsp turbo yeast, and 1tsp Citric acid. Hopefully, I'll get a nice dry white :)

 

[andrew_ysk]

interesting. manuka honey.. the tee tree that have antibacterial property ? does it works ? pls tell me if it works or not.

Just started a similar wine tho' mine uses Manuka Honey and Camomile tea bags (Morrisons) and 1.3L of Apple and Elderflower juice, 800g Sugar, 1/4tsp Tannin, 1tsp nutrient, 1tsp turbo yeast, and 1tsp Citric acid. Hopefully, I'll get a nice dry white :)

 

[IzzyWizzy666]

It's still bubbling away happily :)