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OK...
For those that were part of the dicussion a couple months ago about a Twisted Tea clone, I've got one for you...
I've started a test batch, I'll let you know how it goes...
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MX001 - Wicked Tea (beta 0.1) (Twisted Tea clone)
1 gallon brewed iced tea (Sun Tea)
1 pound of corn sugar
1 lemon
1/2 packet Montrechet
I wanted to make sun tea for the base, but here in Northern Maine, we've kinda lost our sun for the last few weeks, so I just boiled a gallon of water and brewed a gallon of tea using the plain Lipton iced tea (yellow box, iirc).
I was originally gonna only use 1/2 pound of dextrose, but my hydrometer reading showed a potential of only like 5%, so I bumped the sugar up another 1/2 pound, and had a OG of 1.048, a healthy 6.5%'ish...
Let the boiled water/tea/sugar cool to 80, and throw the half packet of Montrechet in.
I'm thinking I'll rack it in a month, and squeeze a half or maybe a whole lemon into the secondary, figure a couple weeks or a month in the secondary and it'll be good.
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NOTES: After starting this first test batch, I've realized that it really isn't a Twisted Tea clone, since TT is pretty much flavored beer. Henceforth, the label reads "Wicked Tea, Iced Tea Wine". I'm thinking about doing 6 packs of 375ml wine bottles instead of 12 oz. beer bottles, an extra 0.7 oz., and an extra point above TT.
This is also only the first batch, gimme a couple batches to get it perfected, and feel free to start a beta 0.2 yourself and tell me what you changed and why. I figure I'll give it the same rule as my 'experimental cooking', gimme 3 tries, and the 4th batch will be perfect...
For those that were part of the dicussion a couple months ago about a Twisted Tea clone, I've got one for you...
I've started a test batch, I'll let you know how it goes...
---
MX001 - Wicked Tea (beta 0.1) (Twisted Tea clone)
1 gallon brewed iced tea (Sun Tea)
1 pound of corn sugar
1 lemon
1/2 packet Montrechet
I wanted to make sun tea for the base, but here in Northern Maine, we've kinda lost our sun for the last few weeks, so I just boiled a gallon of water and brewed a gallon of tea using the plain Lipton iced tea (yellow box, iirc).
I was originally gonna only use 1/2 pound of dextrose, but my hydrometer reading showed a potential of only like 5%, so I bumped the sugar up another 1/2 pound, and had a OG of 1.048, a healthy 6.5%'ish...
Let the boiled water/tea/sugar cool to 80, and throw the half packet of Montrechet in.
I'm thinking I'll rack it in a month, and squeeze a half or maybe a whole lemon into the secondary, figure a couple weeks or a month in the secondary and it'll be good.
---
NOTES: After starting this first test batch, I've realized that it really isn't a Twisted Tea clone, since TT is pretty much flavored beer. Henceforth, the label reads "Wicked Tea, Iced Tea Wine". I'm thinking about doing 6 packs of 375ml wine bottles instead of 12 oz. beer bottles, an extra 0.7 oz., and an extra point above TT.
This is also only the first batch, gimme a couple batches to get it perfected, and feel free to start a beta 0.2 yourself and tell me what you changed and why. I figure I'll give it the same rule as my 'experimental cooking', gimme 3 tries, and the 4th batch will be perfect...