Drunken Emu's Mississippi River Water (Hard Tea)

[LoneTreeFarms]

Question, for whoever's still reading this thread: I now have 8 bombers full of this stuff, and it tastes pretty meh.

I used 5 oz of thawed store-brand lemonade concentrate to back sweeten (added it to the bottling bucket & racked on top of it) but the bottles range from mildly sweet & lemony to plain hard tea flavored, which isn't a good taste on it's own.

I've never had to back sweeten anything, let alone anything I've already bottled. I'm super hesitant to pour it out, sweeten it, and re-bottle it just because it's not worth the hassle.

Any tips on how to proceed?

what about adjusting to taste as you open these? occasionally i'll pour a wheat beer that I made awhile back that also tasted pretty meh, and i'll add some lemonade to it so that it tastes to my liking. you could do the same thing and also add some splenda.

it beats the alternatives.

 

[nickbrew]

I made this with green tea. It ended up tasting very thin and bland, but a little bit like cleaning products. It was quite delicious before I stabilized it and something in it changed. I am interested in making it again in the future but I will definitely be making some tweaks.

 

[danthebugman]

Getting ready to try this out and turns out I don't have any wine or champagne yeast like I thought I did. Any reason this wouldn't work just as well with something like US-05 or is wine yeast turn out a better product?

 

[BikerMatt]

Gonna try this one out the coming weekend with a few little twists:

I raided our tea cabinet and found enough teabags to do this but it`s gonna be a motley crue:

-Cha organic black tea
-Lipton green tea strawberry cupcake
-Lipton Decaf earl grey
-Lipton lady grey

I also cannot get my hands on the Montrachet yeast so I ordered a bag of Mangrove Jack´s M05 Mead yeast, and a Lalvin EC-1118 Champagne yeast, one bag of either should be enough (tempted to try the jack) I also got 20g of campden powder and 100g of sorbate powder but got no idea how much am I supposed to use them as I`ve never used either before.

Sugar and the fruits I can get from the corner market.