Newbie questions

[ValCapone]

Forgive me I have never made beer. I make wine, my husband drinks beer and we both like twisted tea. So here's my questions. On the twisted tea website it says made from a clear malt beverage with added tea flavour. A: how do I make a "clear" malt B: how do I make it a 10-12% alcohol to add tea flavour after without diluting too much C:how do I sweeten without making it ferment again and D: how do I make it not carbonated?

 

[Black Island Brewer]

Forgive me I have never made beer. I make wine, my husband drinks beer and we both like twisted tea. So here's my questions. On the twisted tea website it says made from a clear malt beverage with added tea flavour. A: how do I make a "clear" malt B: how do I make it a 10-12% alcohol to add tea flavour after without diluting too much C:how do I sweeten without making it ferment again and D: how do I make it not carbonated?

The malt beverage makers typically filter their products to remove any malt flavor, so it's just alcohol & water. Then they can add whatever flavor they want.
I've never had twisted tea, but based on what you describe I might try making an unhopped wort with a combination of extra pale malt extract and sugar to get a gravity of about 1.100, ferment it out with a highly attenuative neutral yeast like WLP090, stabilize it with a potassium sorbate/potassium metabisulphite combo, then backsweeten, make asuper concentrated tea and add at bottling time to taste, and bottle. The additives will prevent the fermntation from restarting once you add the sugar for backsweetening, and thus prevent carbonation.

 

[ValCapone]

Thanks a bunch

 

[Blue_State]

I was thinking of the way my grandma did it. She did it with apple cider though...something like this.

1 Gallon Milk Jug
Tea with Sugar
Neutral Yeast