Tea Wine

Ingredients:

Method:

The key to this recipe is 5oz of sugar to a pint of tea.

Save the last bit of tea from the pot daily until you have accumulated 4 pints. When you have this half gallon, bring it to the boil in a sauce pan and add the sugar. Just boil it long enough to dissolve the sugar.

Pour into an earthenware jar, add juice of the lemons, half a teaspoon of yeast nutrient and - when cool - a teaspoon of dried yeast.

Keep closely covered in a warm place.

When first vigorous ferment is over, stir, then transfer to a fermenting bottle and fit trap. When it begins to clear (after about 6 weeks) rack and bottle.

This should produce about 13% alcohol.

 

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