looking for hard iced tea/twisted tea recipe

[vin6543]

I'm wondering if anyone has a good hard iced tea or twisted tea recipe. I'm new to home brewing, but drink allot of twisted teas and was hoping to make something similar.
Thanks for your help!

 

[TexasDroughtBrewery]

interested also...sub

 

[BigEd]

Those products aren't brewed, they're manufactured. You can attempt to brew something from scratch but you'll probably have better results making it the same way the commercial producers do and add flavors & sweetener to an alcohol base. They are classified legally as "malt beverages" for tax purposes. An unhopped, squeaky clean "beer" is made and then ultra filtered to make a water-clear base. Various flavors, colors, and sweeteners are then added to produce the desired final beverage.

If you still want to make one like a beer I'd suggest searching "hard lemonade" recipes and sub tea for the lemon ingredients. There are several hard lemonade recipes that have positive feedback.

 

[GonZolaB]

Yooper has a good hard lemonade recipe, I read some people added tea to it and they liked the results

 

[poptarts]

snapple add a shot of voldka
honestly though Skeeter Pee might be up your alley

 

[Ruckusz28]

Are you referring to Kombucha? Honestly, you'd be better off just mixing a cocktail if you're looking for a traditional iced tea style with some kick. Just my .02

 

[Agnt92]

http://skeeterpee.com yeah I'd defintely go with this. I got a batch going right now. Dont see why you can sub or better yet add tea to the must and make hard Arnold Palmers. Make a few gallon test batches with varying concentrations of teas til you find what you like.

 

[vin6543]

Thanks everyone for your help! I think Im gonna experiment with skeeter pee and yoopers recipe to start.
If anyone has any other suggestions they are also greatly appreciated!
Thanks!!

 

[TexasDroughtBrewery]

Yeah, I have done the lemonade thing its pretty good and mixed with 50/50 tea and all of that. Just didn't know if hard tea was a thing.

 

[TexWhit]

As a pro kombucha brewer I started looking into hard tea and of course Im going to assume fermented. I did a pilot batch of hard tea recently by fermenting tea using dextrose and pitching lutra. It fermented alright but the tea completely fermented out and I was basically left with a slightly off color hard seltzer. As one member mentioned above, you will have to mix and not "brew" hard tea. Im on a 2nd 10 gallon pilot batch, I made a 5 gallon hard seltzer batch to reach an estimated 10% ABV and I will cut it with 5 gallons of a brewed sweet tea concentrate to get a 5% 10 gallon batch. Fingers crossed to see how this comes out.