Brew Spiced Tea Wine

Making your own alcoholic delights is surprisingly easy, cost-effective and good fun! The following guide will take you step-by-step to making your first batch of Spiced Tea Wine - a tasty white wine with a delicious spicy flavour.

Ingredients

  • 7 pints of water
  • 12 tea bags (preferably Assam tea)
  • 3 teaspoons of garam masala
  • 3 cinnamon sticks
  • 32 cloves
  • 900 grams white sugar
  • 3 teaspoons of citric acid powder
  • 2 x 245g cans of white grape juice concentrate
  • Yeast nutrient
  • General purpose yeast

Steps

  1. Pour 5 pints (3 litres) of boiling water onto the tea bags, add 3 teaspoons of Garam Masala, 3 cinnamon sticks and 32 cloves. Stir, give the teabags a squeeze and leave to brew for 10 minutes.
  2. Remove the teabags, stir in the sugar and acid - make sure all of the powder is dissolved. Cover the vessel and leave to cool (check the temperature and continue when it reaches 21°C).
  3. Stir in the grape concentrate, nutrient and yeast.
  4. Pour or siphon into a 1 gallon demi-john. It is recommended to use a sieve inside a funnel to catch the debris from the cinnamon sticks and cloves, which can be discarded.
  5. Top up the demi-john with cold water to the base of the neck. Fit an airlock (half fill the airlock with water or vodka).
  6. Allow to ferment for approximately 5 days. Check the brew periodically with a hydrometer, it should be ready when the specific gravity reaches 1.004. Fermentation will work best somewhere around room temperature.
  7. Crush 2 campden tablets and place into a second clean demi-john, transfer the wine into this vessel using a siphon tube, and leave somewhere cool and dark to clear. The wine should be clear and drinkable within 2 days, but avoid transferring to bottles until the liquid has cleared.
  8. Bottle up the wine when ready, and again, leave somewhere dark and cool - it will be drinkable immediately (would recommend it nicely chilled), but it will mature nicely if left for a while. The wine should end up around 12% ABV.

Tips

  • Sterilise and rinse all of your equipment before use to eliminate any chance of contamination.
  • The equipment and ingredients listed below can be purchased from the supermarket and your local homebrew store.

Warnings

  • You are creating a brew with significant alcohol content - so be responsible around children or when in charge of vehicles etc.

Things You'll Need

  • 2 demi-johns that will hold 1 gallon of liquid.
  • 1 bung/airlock, and one solid bung to fit the demi-johns
  • Siphon tube
  • 2 Campden tablets
  • Thermometer
  • Hydrometer
  • Large Casserole type pan for boiling water
  • Large Funnel and sieve that fits within it
  • Brewing equipment sterilizer

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