Gallon of wine for £2.03

Patrick20

Whistling_Gypsy wrote: »

Hi - thought I'd share the teabag wine recipe I use (probably from another thread on this forum) whilst we are waiting for Patrick20's to ferment:rolleyes:! Loads of teabag wine recipes around - but I've used this one sucessfully...:rotfl::rotfl:

8 x fruit teabags of choice, 1kg sugar, 1 teaspoon yeast, 1 teaspoon nutrient, 2tsps lemon juice.

Pour boiling water onto teabags and sugar in a large jug and leave until lukewarm. Discard bags and pour liquid into a demijohn. Top up with water to the 'shoulder' of the demijohn. Add yeast and nutrient. Fit a suitable airlock - and away you go!

I've made this a few time with various tea-bags (including builders tea and Earl Grey) - but the red-fruit bags ones always produce the nicest looking wine though! Supposedly around 10%abv, and should be ready in three weeks - though does get better if you can leave it longer to mature slightly:D

I've been collecting the ingredients for Atomic Lemon wine and Lychee wine to add to my collection of carrot, apple, tinned peach, tinned pineapple, rice & raisin, potato & barley, mixed berry...... my new hobby and I just love it:j:j And its very much in the spirit of MSE - teabag wine is one of the most economical too!!:p Can't wait to go foraging in the summer months for potential (free) wine ingredients:D

The demijohns bubbling away and the change in the wine as it ferments out.....like magic!! I have been lucky so far and not produced anything undrinkable (touch wood!) in 8 months of brewing.

The hardest bit is leaving it to mature so I try and alternate a 2 - 3 month wine with one that needs to be left for a year or more.;)

Hope this helps for now - there have been a couple of threads about wine making/brewing but I'm bit of a Luddite and can't do links.

N9eav - would you be so kind as to share your Blackberry and your Strawberry Wine recipes - hoping to gather many pounds of these later in the year!!

Nitha - have recipes for fruit juice wine - but would love to hear what you did with the TV apple juice - cos thats what I'm going to be using when I have a demijohn free!!

Thanks for adding your recipe. I'm interested in your tea wine recipe. I was going to try a lemon green tea wine after this one as i have some in the cupboard unused. My recipe uses 16 bags so may differ in taste from yours, i'd be interested in comparing the recipes so might try yours.

N9eav

The peach wine is quite simple. Use 3lbs of cheap tinned peaches, apricots or any other tinned fruit like that. (in syrup) if in fruit juice increase the sugar by 1/2 lb

1 1/2lb sugar
1tsp of citric acid
1/2 tsp tannin
1tsp pectolase
1tsp yeat nutrient
yeast

ferment the fruit for 2 days then strain in to a demi-john top up with water and ferment till dry.

(Or keep adding small amounts of sugar to make stronger desert wine to desired taste)

I trust you know enough to need only these basics, but ask if you need more.

I found a book called Home made wine by Judith Irwin
ISBN 1-85501-238-3

It's pretty good for wines that use basic easy to find ingredients and unusual ones like Ribena wine.

Get ready for the Elderflower season soon. A real winner for light white wine and champagne

N9eav

Strawberry per gallon

4lbs ripe fruit
2 1/4 sugar
1 lemon
1tsp pectolase
1 tsp nutrient
1/2 tsp tannin
yeast

Ferment on fruit for 1 week
Strain and top up to neck of demi-john and ferment till dry

InfamyInfamy

JackieO wrote: »

My late ma-in-law used to make tea wine and it was delicious, she also made a mean sloe gin that would rock your socks off using her sloes from the garden.

I made sloe gin for the first time last year! It was lethal!! So easy to make aswell...will be doing again this year!!
:beer:

prosnap

And, over 4 years later .....


Might be nice to update this thread and get some more recipes

prosnap

I guess not then? .......

Fruball

Ooooh I am glad you did! I keep meaning to have a go at hm wine but not got around to it.

I really need to make some savings so I think next month may see the birth of my new hobby