How to Make Wine With Flavored Teas

Wine can be made with almost any fruit or vegetable. A truly unique homemade wine can be made using flavored tea bags. It is not a full bodied wine; but tea wine is a light wine similar to a wine cooler. Read on to learn how to make it.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Container for the wine (3 to 5 gallon works best)
• Airlock
• Filtered or bottled water
• Sugar
• Wine Yeast
• Flavored Tea

1. Choose a container that will hold 3 to 5 gallons of liquid. Make sure it can be closed with either a commercial or homemade airlock.

2. Begin filling the container with water. Leave air space at the top that equals the final gallon.

3. Add the sugar at a ratio of 1 lb. sugar to 1 gallon of water. Stir or shake to mix until the sugar is dissolved.

4. Proof the yeast by adding 1 packet of wine yeast to 1/4 cup of water and 1 tablespoon sugar. Stir to mix and let rise.

5. Add the proofed yeast to the sugar water and stir to mix.

6. Add 3 flavored tea bags for every gallon of sugar water.

7. Attach the airlock and put the mix in a safe place to allow it to work. Watch the airlock and when the mixture stops bubbling the wine is ready.

8. Decant into smaller bottles, chill and enjoy.

Tips & Warnings

• Read the tea ingredients, those that contain Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) will sometimes kill the yeast.
• Depending on the ambient temperature of the room that the wine works in, the wine could be ready in as little as 2 weeks.
• The 5 gallon jugs of bottled water from the super center work well for doing this method of wine making.
• Don’t expect a brew that a true wine connoisseur will love. This is just a simple method for a simple wine.

Resources

• Backwoods Living

[dreamwaltzz]

on 11/25/2009 I was trying to make some tea wine at home, while putting in the teabags, i realized there are staples on the teabags. I have concerns of metals affecting the brew making it poisonous but i dump it in anw. Jus wondering anyone did the same thing as i do but manage to brew a drinkable wine?

[dawncurtis1]

on 8/31/2009 friends in devon have made tea wine. Still in the demijohn but surpisingly does NOT look like cold tea. Will keep u informed of the progress. Could u make wine from fruit tea bags? Hummmmmmm! Will keep u posted on that one.............

[Toadphillips]

on 9/29/2008 TEA?? so basically it's sugar wine. With a hint of tea.

[justthecooker]

on 9/3/2008 Holy cow! I have been making home made wine for years, beer also. My Italian grandfather made his own wine too and I've never heard of tea wine. I'll definitely try it. Thanks