Hard Arnold Palmer

[brazedowl]

Thoughts. Make a 5 gallon batch of hard lemonade using one of the many available recipes. Then the night before bottling, move it to a bottling bucket and steep with some one-gallon tea bags overnight. One bag of the big gallon tea bags per gallon of lemonade. Thoughts? Anyone try it before?

 

[dpembrook]

I'd be tempted to try it on one gallon first, I have been using the skeeter pee recipe as a base and modifying from there. I find a one gallon batch a good way to experiment. Not as much to drink if its only ok.. or worse.

Making a hard Arnold Palmer for my wife was one of the first things I wanted to make and still haven't gotten around to it. I have a 5 gallon batch of skeeter pee done now that I should try it on. I'll let you know how it works if I try it, I have time today for it.

 

[JonM]

I'd try just steeping a tea bag in a glass of skeeter pee at serving time.

Oh, and instead of a hard Arnold Palmer, I think you absolutely must call this the Al Czervik.

 

[mgonbrewlab]

Would there be any reason to not use tea leaves with the primary fermentation? I have also been considering this - Twisted Tea makes a hard lemonade/tea mix and it is a great drink for a hot day.

 

[Wine2Beer]

Would there be any reason to not use tea leaves with the primary fermentation? I have also been considering this - Twisted Tea makes a hard lemonade/tea mix and it is a great drink for a hot day.

Or make the seperately and just blend it to taste. You could take a 10% Skeeter Pee and blend it with some good brewed tea and bring it to a 5-6% Hard Arnie.

 

[SmokeyMcBong]

I'd try just steeping a tea bag in a glass of skeeter pee at serving time.

Oh, and instead of a hard Arnold Palmer, I think you absolutely must call this the Al Czervik.

I always thought a hard Arnold Palmer was a Tom Arnold