Hello, I have someone who doesn't seem to care for wine but she loves tea. I was looking for a recipie for tea wine. I usually use Jack Keller's recipies and they turn out great but I don't see anything for a tea wine. Ideally I would like to find a low alcohol wine, (10-11%) that would taste good over ice or heated slightly. Something that you would like to sip on a hot summer day on the back porch. Thanks in advance. Tom
Tom, Wasn't somebody trying coffee wine, or wasn't there a recipe on Jack's site for coffee wine? Couldn't you substitute tea for coffee? Just a thought. Darlene
I've made one batch of tea wine which is aged enough to drink now. I really like it, so I have another under way now. The one I made is really simple:
to make a 4 liter batch:
2 lb sugar + water to make 4 liters boil 10 minutes off boil, add 6 tablespoons tea (I used Darjeeling loose tea leaves) steep tea for 10 minutes and remove 3 teaspoons acid blend 1 teaspoon yeast nutrientThen proceed as for any typical wine.
Don't add tannin - you get that from the tea. And the amount of tea may not sound like enough (it didn't to me anyway), but I found a few recipes all in that same ballpark, and it turned out fine.
yeah, um, listen to the recipes and _follow_ them. i didn't, and i'm suffering for it. =)
my third batch of wine is a coffee wine (the first two are cysers) because i need my caffeine like a baby needs milk. unfortunately, when i saw about a half-pound of coffee grounds per 5 gallons i somehow translated that to about 4 cups in 1 gallon. Don't ask. I don't know.
y'know that taste that you get when you burn something, then mix it with bad beer?
yeah.
i would like to try a tea wine though, maybe even a chai + coffee wine (thought of it a few hours ago, independently of this thread), so we'll give that idea a few days until i can wash one of my half-gallon bottles and use that for the expiriment.
just for kicks, i will try a couple different recipes... i like to expiriment and do different things, so i will probably make a basic 2 or
3 gallon batch with 4 to 6 pounds of sugar in it, and probably steep the tea separately. i've been pitching my yeast in the tea i've been making for the cysers, and that seems to work fairly decently.so, probably chai, earl grey, black tea (strawberry or raspberry flavors), or maybe a lemon or french hazelnut variety. we'll see. maybe mix one of them with the pound of dandelions i picked the other day (did you know it takes an awful lot of time to pick dandelions? and no neighbor kids to bribe, either... sigh...)
Saul Sabia saul_sabia@yaho[o].com
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