Whitechapel - Tea Wine 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83409#Comment_83409 2008-09-13T10:20:28-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 There were two true stories in episode 26. Mad Jacko actually lives down my street. And my grandad used to make tea wine. He used to mix it up in plastic dustbins ("plastic garbage ...
He used to mix it up in plastic dustbins ("plastic garbage cans" for our Colonial cousins). Basically, he would toss A Shitload (that's an exact measurement) of cheap teabags into the bin, and throw a few gallons of boiling water over the top of them, followed by what was probably two or three pounds of sugar and whatever yeast was indicated. He would them fish out the myriad teabags with a long-handled fishing net, lock it up and put it in the bathroom for a couple of months.

We ended up being given bottles and bottles of the stuff. I got to quite like it, actually.

Now, the banana wine -- which he made using exactly the same tools and process, only, obviously, using a quarterton of badly aged bananas -- that was something else entirely...]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83415#Comment_83415 2008-09-13T10:47:50-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 cjstevens http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1610 I was wonderin about this when I read it. Suppose you could make anything into wine with yeast and sugar and water etc. My dad has got one of those wine making kits that we've just started with a red ... about 6 weeks but you get 6 bottles and the pack costs about 2 quid so it's worth it if you have time. One day I would like to grow my own grapes and then make the wine myself, experimenting with different fruits etc.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83417#Comment_83417 2008-09-13T10:57:58-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 CamMc http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4008 I'm actually tempted to try this. Wouldn't use table sugar though, as sucrose and yeast behaves oddly flavorwise. Damnit. I keep getting distracted from beer by other fermentable ideas.
Damnit. I keep getting distracted from beer by other fermentable ideas.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83419#Comment_83419 2008-09-13T10:59:10-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 VertigoJones http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4512 I was a spoiled child, and the earlier part of my childhood, I lived on a small holding. We had loads of apple trees and one year, to clear the lawn, we bunged all the old apples into a tinbathtub, ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83421#Comment_83421 2008-09-13T11:05:14-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 mybrainhurts http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1584 I had a feeling 'Mad Jacko' was based on personal experiences. I think in England everybody always knows at least one complete nutcase. I once tried making Pruno, which is prison alcohol, using ...
I once tried making Pruno, which is prison alcohol, using instructions from the internet. I used oranges, sugar and tomato ketchup. It tasted like death but got me very drunk. The hangover was unbelievable.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83425#Comment_83425 2008-09-13T11:15:01-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 mister hex http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4411 @mybrainhurts - No wonder your brain hurts. Question - is not blindness a possible outcome of such home-brew fun? (That said, I've always wanted my own still, out in the woods somewhere.)
Question - is not blindness a possible outcome of such home-brew fun?
(That said, I've always wanted my own still, out in the woods somewhere.)]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83429#Comment_83429 2008-09-13T11:29:29-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Swift Benjamin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=819 My wife's uncle likes to use apples from his small orchard and homemade still to make apple-jack every fall. His first attempt was clear as glass and tasted like poison. He put the second go in an ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83433#Comment_83433 2008-09-13T11:49:28-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 joe.distort http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1173 tea wine sounds like it would be the only wine i would like. i love me some tea. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83440#Comment_83440 2008-09-13T12:37:29-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 CamMc http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4008 @MisterHex - I'm pretty sure Blindness due to alcohol usually only occurs when your drinking the wrong kind. (I.E. Methanol or Denatured alcohol.) Ethanol wont actually do that in the concentrations ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83445#Comment_83445 2008-09-13T12:47:43-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Vespers http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=554 @mybrainhurts I think in England everybody always knows at least one complete nutcase. No need for the 'In England.' England doesn't have ALL the nutters, whatever the rest of the world likes to ...
I think in England everybody always knows at least one complete nutcase.

No need for the 'In England.' England doesn't have ALL the nutters, whatever the rest of the world likes to think.

Also, I am going to try every one of these ideas. Except the oranges, sugar and ketchup one; I ain't that desperate.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83448#Comment_83448 2008-09-13T13:20:05-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Ian Mayor http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=882 Tea wine sounds utterly revolting. But then, bad booze is essential for human life. And the thing about England is, no matter where you live, you always think you have the best nutcases.
And the thing about England is, no matter where you live, you always think you have the best nutcases.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83449#Comment_83449 2008-09-13T13:27:40-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 Mad Jacko was actually a lovely bloke. I knew him as John. Used to sit on a chair on his front step (he's a bit frail now, don't really see him) and watch the world go by. So a cab picks me up one ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83452#Comment_83452 2008-09-13T13:48:07-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Val A Lindsay II http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1680 What writer wouldn't want to immortalize such a character? Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83463#Comment_83463 2008-09-13T14:13:20-07:00 2008-09-14T01:52:18-07:00 Paul Duffield http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6 @Ian Mayor, What's truly amazing is that not only does everyone think they have the best nutcases, but everyone actually *does*. When sharing a flat at uni, there was a woman who lived down the ... What's truly amazing is that not only does everyone think they have the best nutcases, but everyone actually *does*.

When sharing a flat at uni, there was a woman who lived down the hall who did various obscene things around the apartment building in the name of Wicca, including (memorably), daubing the lift with some sort of pentagram in her own menstrual fluid, and leaving the offending tampon on the floor under it. YUM!
The devout Christian who lived next door with noone but her overweight, home-tutored son (who suffered from ME (meaning I once had to help her lift the helplessly catatonic and stark naked boy out of a bath) and gave rocks covered in melted wax as presents to my flatmate (who dressed up as a cat every day of her life (and was also a devout Christian, once performing an exorcism with the help of her mother in our flat))) didn't like the Wiccan down the hall.

Life is just fucking odd.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83469#Comment_83469 2008-09-13T14:18:41-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 AdamK http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=543 @Paul Duffield - I'd pay money for youe autobiography. Good LORD, man. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83484#Comment_83484 2008-09-13T14:31:49-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Flabyo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1306 Guildford seems to be lacking in nutcases at the moment, I haven't seen the bearded lady about the place for some time now (she even has a myspace page...) On the homebrew front, my dad used to be ...
On the homebrew front, my dad used to be really into it when I was growing up. Big bottles of the stuff, and lots of weirdly shaped glassware. It all vanished from the house one weekend, never did find out why. I'd like to think there was some sort of catastrophic drunken incident that I slept through the way children do.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83497#Comment_83497 2008-09-13T15:00:31-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 VoxDraconae http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4007 hm... You know, my conscience/better half is out of town for a week, so I have the place to myself... I may have to try this. All of it. Except the menstrual seal and the cat lady.
I may have to try this. All of it. Except the menstrual seal and the cat lady.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83545#Comment_83545 2008-09-13T16:53:01-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Winther http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2913 I've seen tons of different home brews. Then again, I spent four years at a chemical institute, where the 96% ethanol we used in experiments was liberally stolen for... other uses. I once had a ...
By the way, 96% ethanol is a treacherous liquid. The taste is quite well covered in most sodas, and as you get more drunk, you tend to forget that this stuff is about twice as strong as most conventional boozes, which is when you end up doing 1/5 ethanol to soda. Which is followed by you waking up in a different country with no money or identification, dressed in a torn ballerina costume, with an uncomfortable soreness around your nether regions, and a strong odor of goat hanging off you.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83598#Comment_83598 2008-09-13T19:36:52-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Cat Vincent http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=447 Just a thought - distilling tea wine into tea brandy... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83623#Comment_83623 2008-09-13T21:35:25-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 William Joseph Dunn http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2798 This might be a stupid question, but does it taste like tea or something completely different? Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83676#Comment_83676 2008-09-14T01:44:22-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Ian Mayor http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=882 @Paul Duffield. Actually, yours beats mine.
Actually, yours beats mine.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83683#Comment_83683 2008-09-14T04:06:45-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 stsparky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2311 I've polished off a bottle of cider and now have a hankering for mead. Banana Mash sounds like it would need to made into a brandy to burn off the sweetness. Banana Cognac?
Banana Mash sounds like it would need to made into a brandy to burn off the sweetness. Banana Cognac?]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83730#Comment_83730 2008-09-14T12:17:37-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 joe.distort http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1173 but does it taste like tea or something completely different? actually, thats a very good question. i didnt even think about that. but does it taste like tea or something completely different?

actually, thats a very good question. i didnt even think about that.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83794#Comment_83794 2008-09-14T19:53:00-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Corey Waits http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=453 stsparky I've polished off a bottle of cider and now have a hankering for mead. Yeah, I was thinking about Mead the other day. Are there any companies that actually produce mead for ... stsparky
I've polished off a bottle of cider and now have a hankering for mead.

Yeah, I was thinking about Mead the other day. Are there any companies that actually produce mead for sale?

Alternately, anyone know a good way to make some? Apparently I need to strain it through the undergarments of a Nordic Priestess, but I don't know any personally...]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83795#Comment_83795 2008-09-14T20:02:40-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 JShilpetski http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=316 On mead, there are a few sites out there. there are a few sites out there.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83798#Comment_83798 2008-09-14T20:13:50-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Corey Waits http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=453 JShilpetski On mead, there are a few sites out there. Thanks. I was looking for a real simple recipe, so I might try out that one from the Storm the Castle link. JShilpetski
On mead, there are a few sites out there.

Thanks. I was looking for a real simple recipe, so I might try out that one from the Storm the Castle link.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83870#Comment_83870 2008-09-15T07:17:20-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Brendan McGinley http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=93 I polished off a bottle of mead last month. There's a winery in upstate NY that makes it. Tasty stuff.
Tasty stuff.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83902#Comment_83902 2008-09-15T10:03:19-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 cjtremlett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1855 Which winery, Brendan? Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=83929#Comment_83929 2008-09-15T12:26:21-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Brendan McGinley http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=93 It was Brotherhood Winery, which is a pretty fun day trip if you're ever on the west side of the Hudson Valley. Had one of the best dates of my life there, combined with fall foliage, a movie, an ... Brotherhood Winery, which is a pretty fun day trip if you're ever on the west side of the Hudson Valley. Had one of the best dates of my life there, combined with fall foliage, a movie, an amusement park and a crazy hitchhiker.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=84734#Comment_84734 2008-09-17T11:54:33-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Scrymgeour http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4141 there used to be this cool amish type shop in manchester ( at least thats what me and my friends called it) that sold mead. It either tastes disgusting and sweet or wonderful and sweet and i could ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=84840#Comment_84840 2008-09-17T18:24:48-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Ben http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=700 Oddly enough, that's not the first strange menstrual blood story I've heard. When I was in Uni there was a house with paper on every single surface of its interior. The guys living there were art ...
....and for some reason I now want spaghetti.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=84843#Comment_84843 2008-09-17T18:34:49-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Indigo Rose http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4487 Interesting how this thread became odd (potentially stomach churning) beverages... and odd, decidedly stomach churning tales... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=84975#Comment_84975 2008-09-18T02:19:30-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Vespers http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=554 @Ben: Man, I love that. I wanna do that now; the 'cover-your-house-in-paper' thing. Would get a bit 'The Number 23' eventually... Also, I'm drinkin me some of my mead tomorrow, on Pirate Day. ...
Man, I love that. I wanna do that now; the 'cover-your-house-in-paper' thing. Would get a bit 'The Number 23' eventually...

Also, I'm drinkin me some of my mead tomorrow, on Pirate Day. Just as a starter before we kick into the rum and other more piratey things. My reasoning is, mead is what vikings drank, and vikings were the best pirates, therefore mead is piratey.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=84995#Comment_84995 2008-09-18T04:47:45-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 I love mead. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=84999#Comment_84999 2008-09-18T05:36:10-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 MDickey http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=51 I've heard rumblings of a strawberry-rhubarb small mead a friend is planning to make in the next week or two. Supposedly rhubarb ferments well, something I never would have imagined. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=85007#Comment_85007 2008-09-18T06:42:53-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 cjtremlett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1855 I haven't had strawberry-rhubarb mead, but I've had strawberry mead, and rhubarb wine, and strawberry rhubarb wine. All of the above were very, very yummy. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=85081#Comment_85081 2008-09-18T11:29:22-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Lucifal http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=376 I guess the Freakangels use honey or something to ferment their wine, unless there's some sugar warehouse nearby. Someone said you shouldn't use table sugar for making wine. That's what most home ... Someone said you shouldn't use table sugar for making wine. That's what most home winemakers use with great success, and there are some things that you ought not make wine from . . . even the things you can. I made dandelion wine a few years back (used too many dandelions) and it stunk of piss. Mind you, if you held your nose and could stomach the stuff it did have a kick (but I only managed to do that once before I tipped it all down the sink - and it had to be bad for me to throw away any kind of alcohol.).]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=85155#Comment_85155 2008-09-18T14:51:18-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 orwellseyes http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2119 @Warrenellis: At 15 I was on a school trip to Ireland. At some god-forsaken castle, one of apparently millions in Eire, the gift shop sold mead. It was liquor, we were American teenagers, we ...
At 15 I was on a school trip to Ireland. At some god-forsaken castle, one of apparently millions in Eire, the gift shop sold mead. It was liquor, we were American teenagers, we bought as much as we could carry.

I grew up on good whiskey and Guinness poured by an Uncle who was a Dublin barman and did some kind of voodoo to get his pour perfect from his home tap. I'm not a lightweight.

But this gift shop shit made me sick as death with a weird lingering dry drunk the next day. I think it was the local castle-caretaker's revenge. Death by mead.

I've had good mead since. White Winter Winery makes some fine stuff



I want to drink mead from the holy grail like that.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=85160#Comment_85160 2008-09-18T15:26:57-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Winther http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2913 @Vespers: If you want a piratey alcoholic beverage, wouldn't grog better suit your purposes? At least, that's what Monkey Island taught me.
If you want a piratey alcoholic beverage, wouldn't grog better suit your purposes? At least, that's what Monkey Island taught me.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=85202#Comment_85202 2008-09-18T18:20:08-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Lazarus99 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3143 @orwellseyes Damn, that stuff looks tasty (but dangerous)...
Damn, that stuff looks tasty (but dangerous)...]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=85259#Comment_85259 2008-09-18T22:32:10-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Rootfireember http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1551 I haven't had mead in a while; a friend made fizzy and non-fizzy mead (I preferred tthe non-fizzy version) Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=85308#Comment_85308 2008-09-19T05:37:24-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Cassandra http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3993 Berwick-upon-Tweed on the Scottish/English border makes/used to make great mead (I think it's the carry over of the tradition of the Lindisfarne monks making it or something) - you could smell it as ...
There's also a tradition of deeply tacky wench-filled Meadery restaurants in Cornwall. The only problem with too much mead it that you wake up with both a hangover and the aftermath of a sugar-rush.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=85324#Comment_85324 2008-09-19T06:01:12-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Brendan McGinley http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=93 @ warren -- I'll be your mead connection if you give me Australia when you take over the world.
I'll be your mead connection if you give me Australia when you take over the world.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=85389#Comment_85389 2008-09-19T09:20:55-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 CamMc http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4008 @Lucifal: That's good to know, since table sugar is a lot cheaper than dextrose for brewing. I was mostly speaking from my experience from home brewing beer, where straight sucrose will give you some ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=87103#Comment_87103 2008-09-25T12:26:18-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Just_Floating http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3133 Anyone else decide to try to make some tea wine? I just made up a 25 gallon batch of raspberry tea wine. I hope it works! Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=87387#Comment_87387 2008-09-26T10:00:01-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 CamMc http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4008 Yup. Got 2.5 gallons of plain old black tea churning and bubbling for the last week. Wont be ready until late November which makes this difficult. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=88928#Comment_88928 2008-10-02T11:37:59-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 AphroditeIX http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2363 Ahhhh man :) dustbins, scrumpy, ratarsed, bunged.... I love the English. God I do. :D
I love the English. God I do. :D]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=88929#Comment_88929 2008-10-02T11:42:00-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 hahahahaha Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=88937#Comment_88937 2008-10-02T12:09:29-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Little_E http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3434 @ AphroditeIX - brilliant! We have a bottle of wine that was a gift from a close French friend that was made by her grandfather many years ago to an age-old secret recipe. She came from a farming ...
We have a bottle of wine that was a gift from a close French friend that was made by her grandfather many years ago to an age-old secret recipe. She came from a farming family, and in her youth was taken by a severe fever, which almost killed her. The wine was used as an ointment and rubbed into her skin. Apparently, the next morning when she awoke the fever was gone and over the following years she saw the wine used in the same manner with others and have the same effect.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=89860#Comment_89860 2008-10-05T14:34:31-07:00 2008-10-05T14:47:54-07:00 Sarpedon http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=113 how are you guys sealing the tea wine from the air? what sort of yeast are you using etc? I have to try this. I think there's a huge glass bottle sitting next to my house. there's so much great ...
I think there's a huge glass bottle sitting next to my house. there's so much great shit left around this place: I found a box full of VHS tapes sitting in the garage this morning. There's a copy of a boxed Star Wars VHS. glad my roommate's still got a VCR.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=89875#Comment_89875 2008-10-05T15:41:28-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Orpington2019 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=517 anyone got any websites for how to homebrew wines/ales? I have been thinking that i should start trying this..what's the legality of it in the states? I have seen some shows on the history channel ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=89930#Comment_89930 2008-10-05T23:06:46-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 E0157H7 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4212 Bah! You tea wine snobs. Nothing quite beats "ghetto mead" made with cheapo honey and baking yeast, fermented in plastic drums and fortified with shit vodka for a little kick. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=89978#Comment_89978 2008-10-06T09:10:58-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 BrianKellett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=234 I guess the Freakangels use honey or something to ferment their wine, unless there's some sugar warehouse nearby. There is (was?) a huge Tate and Lyle factory just down the river from them - quite ... I guess the Freakangels use honey or something to ferment their wine, unless there's some sugar warehouse nearby.

There is (was?) a huge Tate and Lyle factory just down the river from them - quite a bit of sugar there...]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=90025#Comment_90025 2008-10-06T14:01:11-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 srajki http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4679 Here is a site to get home brew recipes for beer, wine, mead and cider recipes To keep outside air from entering your fermentor you need an airlock Airlocks After reading this page I decided ... recipes

To keep outside air from entering your fermentor you need an airlock
Airlocks

After reading this page I decided to brew six gallons of cider. Hopefully its better than the beers I have tried to make/consume.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=90097#Comment_90097 2008-10-06T19:00:55-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 BritMandelo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4043 We make dandelion wine anytime we can scrounge up enough dandelion heads not infected with pesticides that will give us the stomach-sickness. It's a very sweet, very citrus concoction that just ...
It's a very sweet, very citrus concoction that just tastes like spring in a bottle. It is also wildly easy to get drunk on, but that may be something about the process. It turns less into a wine, more into some kind of liquor.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=90184#Comment_90184 2008-10-07T07:14:54-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 Recipe, Brit? Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=90232#Comment_90232 2008-10-07T10:03:32-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Indigo Rose http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4487 My Grandfather made great Carambola (Star Fruit) Wine, but I never got the recipe... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=90270#Comment_90270 2008-10-07T12:16:59-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 srajki http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4679 Found this Mr. Ellis. Has anyone actually liked Dandelion wine? Dandelion wine recipe Easy Cider Dandelion wine recipe

Easy Cider]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93192#Comment_93192 2008-10-17T09:02:00-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Brendan McGinley http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=93 Wikipedia and our grandfathers have me wanting to brew SPRUCE BEER: Take four ounces of hops, let them boil half an hour in one gallon of water, strain the hop water then add sixteen gallons of ...
Take four ounces of hops, let them boil half an hour in one gallon of water, strain the hop water then add sixteen gallons of warm water, two gallons of molasses, eight ounces of essence of spruce, dissolved in one quart of water, put it in a clean cask, then shake it well together, add half a pint of emptins, then let it stand and work one week, if very warm weather less time will do, when it is drawn off to bottle, add one spoonful of molasses to every bottle.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93245#Comment_93245 2008-10-17T13:44:30-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Thom B. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2248 A Russian friend of mine makes this crazy blackberry port that's really good. She takes a big glass jar and fills it to the top with blackberries (they need to be unwashed because this uses a wild ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93248#Comment_93248 2008-10-17T13:48:20-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Thom B. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2248 @ Brendan McGinley - Alaskan Winter Ale is brewed with Spruce tips and is F'ing amazing. I'm in withdrawal for 6 months out of every year as I wait for it to come back. It arrived in the stores ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93322#Comment_93322 2008-10-17T20:13:44-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 BritMandelo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4043 @ Warren I'm still trying to find the piece of paper--it's different from the linked one. Family recipe in this case, from the husband's absolutely mad old great grandpa. No raisins for one thing, ...
I'm still trying to find the piece of paper--it's different from the linked one. Family recipe in this case, from the husband's absolutely mad old great grandpa. No raisins for one thing, and a different prep. method. So far I remember having about a gallon of water boiling with honey, 3 oranges worth of grated peel with some fruit in there too, 3 lemons worth of peel, and I think about a strainer full of flower-heads (yeah, I know, how exact). I think it was 2 1/2 cups of cane or plain white sugar, 1/4 cup brown sugar. Also, yeast. Boiled it for hours, I remember that, because we couldn't leave the damned house. Four hours, maybe? The 30-day sitting time was the same though. We cleaned out a bunch of old beer bottles and sat them out in the garage, covered, so each bottle would ferment separately.

I'll repost a correct recipe whenever I can find the thing. And yes, I liked it--very sweet, almost syrupy. Extremely citrus with a hint of pleasant bitterness. Also, as I mentioned before, goddamn strong. Maybe it's because I'm a lightweight, but two of them had me wobbly, and I can have two regular beers without a blink.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93336#Comment_93336 2008-10-17T23:02:23-07:00 2008-10-18T04:43:43-07:00 Ariana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1 No raisins for one thing, and a different prep. method.The raisins aren't in most old Dandelion Wine recipes -- yours is a variation of midday dandelion wine that's been made for generations anywhere ... No raisins for one thing, and a different prep. method.The raisins aren't in most old Dandelion Wine recipes -- yours is a variation of midday dandelion wine that's been made for generations anywhere with fields full of the weeds. Adding raisins/grapejuice gives the finished product a fuller body, closer to what's expected from the word wine. The reason yours turns out so light is because it's missing that grape body.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93366#Comment_93366 2008-10-18T04:10:44-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Arkady http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4698 My dad used to brew beer and wine; he used to ferment it in bottles in the bottom of the airing cupboard. My mother banned him from homebrewing after all the bottles exploded quite dramatically one ...
That was the last time my mother ever made the mistake of having a cream carpet. The living room smelled wonderfully fruity for months afterwards though....

I used to brew my own mead, and a friend around the corner used to brew his own stout. We usually had very cheerful New Year's parties. :-)]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93390#Comment_93390 2008-10-18T06:22:14-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Pooka http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=216 i make wine in a big green pickle bucket with a lid, four pounds of sugar, yeast, and good fruit juice...usually i just use concord grapes... then you sterilize everything, boil a gallon of juice ... then you sterilize everything, boil a gallon of juice with the sugar, pour it all together in the bucket, add a lid with a hole, tube and jug of water for the fermentation gases to escape into, and let it sit for about a month in a warm location. It's pretty good...]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93399#Comment_93399 2008-10-18T08:17:59-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 BritMandelo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4043 @Ariana Hm, that's cool. Might try it with the raisins next time and see how it turns out.
Hm, that's cool. Might try it with the raisins next time and see how it turns out.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93410#Comment_93410 2008-10-18T09:28:03-07:00 2008-10-18T09:28:27-07:00 iangil http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1112 I've got a few friends making kombucha, the Russian fermented sweet tea. Haven't tried it yet, but it sure sounds good. There are a lot of guides on Instructables on how to make it (and plenty of ... Instructables on how to make it (and plenty of other drinks).]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93422#Comment_93422 2008-10-18T10:39:01-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Anonymous. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=720 What about Mulled Tea Wine? Like a cup of tea and cup of wine in one? I mention it only because my tea tastes a little of those anonymous mulled wine spices, and a little bit like cold medicine too. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=93633#Comment_93633 2008-10-19T13:13:52-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 moniker42 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1207 I've made Kombucha and I think something interesting to do would be to use coffee, which I've never done. One of these days I will build my own still, however small and primitive, and figure out ...
One of these days I will build my own still, however small and primitive, and figure out top to bottom just how to make aqua vitae.

Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers is the single most fantastic book ever written. We must clone Stephen Harrod Buhner and create a vast Buhner army, laboring to shade every facet of human existence in the same beautiful and poetic fashion that he has written about fermentation.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=94013#Comment_94013 2008-10-20T16:22:27-07:00 2008-10-20T16:22:43-07:00 Thom B. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2248 I usually mix green tea and fruit juice when making kombucha. The kombucha culture seems to like it, the thing is out of control - I have to throw out about 1/2lb of freaky jelly pancake thing every ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=94174#Comment_94174 2008-10-21T09:14:01-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 fiasco http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2934 Weird question - is Kombucha alcoholic? For some reason I can't tell/haven't found a definitive answer on yahoo yet. I planned on making some home brewed stuff for my family this Christmas, and was ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=94177#Comment_94177 2008-10-21T09:35:52-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 CamMc http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4008 @fiasco: As with anything that you add yeast and sugar yes, it's alcoholic. According to the wikipedias its around .5% -1.5%. As with anything that you add yeast and sugar yes, it's alcoholic. According to the wikipedias its around .5% -1.5%.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=94199#Comment_94199 2008-10-21T12:23:35-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 fiasco http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2934 @blunder. Thank you. That is what I figured, but I was still kind of hoping. Ah well. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=94203#Comment_94203 2008-10-21T12:52:20-07:00 2008-10-21T12:59:58-07:00 hank http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=79 These folks make a lot of good Mead/wines http://www.4qf.org/wine/ It helps that my partner and their head vintner were room mates at one point in ancient history.
It helps that my partner and their head vintner were room mates at one point in ancient history.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=94208#Comment_94208 2008-10-21T13:01:20-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Thom B. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2248 @ fiasco - Unless your Cousin doesn't drink for religious reasons the Kombucha should be fine. The alcohol content is so low that it's near impossible to get drunk or even tipsy on it. Plus you ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=94235#Comment_94235 2008-10-21T14:20:00-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 fiasco http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2934 @ Thom B. I don't think she really puts it this way, but she is, for lack of a better term, a recovering alcoholic. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep it in mind. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=94382#Comment_94382 2008-10-22T09:04:54-07:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Thom B. http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2248 Ahh, yes, I knew there was another reason why people don't drink... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=118517#Comment_118517 2009-01-17T01:09:00-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Greasemonkey http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4625 I'm surprised nobody's mentioned homebrewed ginger beer. It only takes three days to ferment in warm weather, and you make it in plastic soft drink bottles. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=118531#Comment_118531 2009-01-17T02:05:42-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Kosmopolit http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1346 Scary alcohol story, not specifically brewing related. I used to know a med student who made fruit punch out of tinned fruit salad and 60% proof medical alcohol. That's not the bad ...
I used to know a med student who made fruit punch out of tinned fruit salad and 60% proof medical alcohol.

That's not the bad bit.

After a party he'd go around with a bucket emptying out glasses and bottles.

Then he'd add more 60% proof alcohol and freeze it to distill out some of the water.

Next party he'd add it to the fruit punch.

The alcohol content and the freezing probably killed most micro-organisms, but still ...]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=118576#Comment_118576 2009-01-17T05:20:16-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Pooka http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=216 ew. Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=118695#Comment_118695 2009-01-17T14:38:38-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Greasemonkey http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4625 Ginger beer recipe. You need: Yeast, ground ginger, sugar, water. Plant: ½ teaspoon dried yeast 1 rounded teaspoon ground ginger 1 rounded teaspoon sugar 1 cup lukewarm ... Ginger beer recipe.

You need:

Yeast, ground ginger, sugar, water.

Plant:

½ teaspoon dried yeast
1 rounded teaspoon ground ginger
1 rounded teaspoon sugar
1 cup lukewarm water

Method:

Mix all together in a jar, cover with a piece of muslin and secure with a rubber band.

Each day for the next week, add 1 teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon ground ginger.

To make up the Ginger Beer:

For the syrup, mix together:

4 cups of sugar
24 cups of warm water
½ cup strained lemon juice
then:

Strain the ginger beer plant through two layers of muslin.

Pour the resulting liquid into the syrup and mix well.

Pour into clean plastic soft drink bottles and tightly screw on lids. The ginger beer should be ready to drink by the end of a week.

Divide the plant left in the muslin into two halves. Place one of these in a glass jar with a cup of warm water. Then next day start feeding as before, that is, one teaspoon of ginger and one of sugar each day. The other half of the plant can be discarded, or you can have two plants 'on the go'.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=118696#Comment_118696 2009-01-17T14:42:03-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 looneynerd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5373 My extended family are from the backwoods of southern Kentucky/ Northern Tennessee. The only thing they know how to do is still whiskey and 'shine. And I don't recommend trying that... I've seen a ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=118856#Comment_118856 2009-01-17T19:39:55-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 ChrisD http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4764 My roommate and I just racked our first gallon of mead. Gave it a taste and it was good, albeit still in need of aging, with a helluva a kick. We used the recipe from stormthecastle.com (thanks ... Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=118927#Comment_118927 2009-01-18T00:42:26-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 HylianHearts http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4696 So how did the tea wine turn out anyone? Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=118985#Comment_118985 2009-01-18T05:55:30-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Nygaard http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=431 @christobel - I vaguely remember contributing my inherited recipes for mead-flavouring using various types of woods and seeds back in the Engine days. Mr. Ellis' mockery still burns, oh yes. But the ...
From what I've seen so far, I wouldn't try making tea wine if you paid me for it. I'd sooner eat the bloom off a tub of half-fermented sauerkraut.

Though, come to think of it, something mildly sweet and alcoholic with a green tea flavour could be interesting...]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=119176#Comment_119176 2009-01-18T17:07:35-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Corey Waits http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=453 Well, my girlfriend and I made mead. It's finished fermenting, but still needs to sit for a while to get real tasty (apparently). Smelled pretty fuckin' alcoholic when we were racking it, so we ...
Smelled pretty fuckin' alcoholic when we were racking it, so we got that part right at least.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=119198#Comment_119198 2009-01-18T19:21:37-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Pooka http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=216 I've got four an a half gallons of grape juice sitting in my kitchen waiting to be made into wine...I've had them for the last six months though and just haven't been in the mood to start it ... Maybe I should do that tomarrow...
I love home made wine...I love wine in general, but home made is usually sweeter and more alchoholic...]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=119200#Comment_119200 2009-01-18T19:27:45-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 looneynerd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5373 There are so many breweries, wineries, and distilleries in Kentucky... I love living here sometimes... Does anybody have any good micro-brewing recipes for beer?
Does anybody have any good micro-brewing recipes for beer?]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=120177#Comment_120177 2009-01-20T21:30:22-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 ChrisD http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4764 @Nygaard Damn the naysayers! I wasn't present for the Engine so I missed out on your recipes. Care to elaborate?
Damn the naysayers!

I wasn't present for the Engine so I missed out on your recipes. Care to elaborate?]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=120270#Comment_120270 2009-01-21T06:21:52-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Pooka http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=216 @looneynerd What part are you abouts good sir? I'm kinda close to Lexington... Mmm...Blackberry wine....mMmmMmMmmm..... Mmm...Blackberry wine....mMmmMmMmmm.....]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=120317#Comment_120317 2009-01-21T08:57:20-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Fauxhammer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=27 @ looneynerd: Go get yourself The Complete Joy of Homebrewing by Charlie Papazian. It's got everything you need to get started. Also: go with growlers or a kegging system. I've pretty much quit ...
Also: go with growlers or a kegging system. I've pretty much quit brewing because bottling is such a pain in the balls.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=120318#Comment_120318 2009-01-21T09:01:10-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 CamMc http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4008 @HylianHearts My batch was pretty much terrible. I don't have my exact recipe at work but I do remember what I want to change for next time. Mostly, the Champagne yeast was a big misstep. I did get ... Mostly, the Champagne yeast was a big misstep. I did get it above 15% so that much I'm grateful for, but I don't think this is intended to be a very Dry wine. I'd like to find some corn sugar because I really don't like how fermented sucrose feels/tastes. Also SOME claim that I left it to brew too long, and while I'll humor them, I still feel the best cup of tea is one you forgot you were brewing and then find on the stove 5-10 minutes later.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=125653#Comment_125653 2009-02-06T20:20:06-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Greasemonkey http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4625 Fridge Cider. My friends and I used to brew this to get wasted on, back when we were too young to legally buy booze. Take care because the bottles WILL explode violently if you don't let the gas ...
My friends and I used to brew this to get wasted on, back when we were too young to legally buy booze. Take care because the bottles WILL explode violently if you don't let the gas out.

2 X 2-litre plastic Coke bottles with screw-on lids
2 litres of apple or grape juice
2 cups sugar
Baking yeast

Pour a litre of fruit juice into the bottom of each Coke bottle.
Add a cup of sugar and half a teaspoon of baking yeast to each bottle, then screw on the lid and shake well.
Fill each bottle to about 5 cm from the top with fairly warm water and screw on the lid.
Leave in a warm place for 3-4 days, making sure to unscrew the lid a couple of times a day and slowly let out the gas.
Leave in the fridge for another 3-4 days. Tastes like sweet fruity soda, tends to have about a 5% alcohol content.]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=125702#Comment_125702 2009-02-06T23:56:28-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 thryn http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4791 @nygaard -- it exists. http://www.suntory.com/zen/recipes/index.html
http://www.suntory.com/zen/recipes/index.html]]> Tea Wine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3578&Focus=126530#Comment_126530 2009-02-09T11:46:45-08:00 2013-06-18T14:37:22-07:00 Nygaard http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=431 Oh - nearly forgot this one. You can add stuff to brews in several ways - the best way for most spices and stuff would be by boiling it directly in the wort, like hops, or in a cotton bag. If you ...
You can add stuff to brews in several ways - the best way for most spices and stuff would be by boiling it directly in the wort, like hops, or in a cotton bag. If you can sterilize it, you can also get additives in at various stages in the fermentaton or aging process.

With a strong wine yeast, four or five kilos of honey added to 25 liters of water makes a mead wort. Mark the height of the water before adding mead and additives, then boil down to that height. One classic recipe is spiced with caravay seeds. Different types of honey or other sugars makes for different flavours. Fruits, citrus and cinnamon are popular. In addition, all kinds of medicinal herbs that can take boiling can go into it, as well as in old-style medicinal beer. One or two additives is probably the limit if you want a clear flavour, though. Examples include absinthe herb, angelica archangelica (the genuine viking age additive), juniper berries, rosemary or claimed hangover remedies like creeping cinquefoil and mead herb.

A more exotic variant use wood as a spice. Birch goes into a few traditonal norwegian dishes, and you can buy blocks of it specially prepared for the purpose in the shops here. I'm told sap-rich twig bundles, discs of young branches and so on works just as well. Then there's the wood called "tyri" (the raw material for tar), which is the resin-saturated heartwood of pine trees which died and dried out on their roots. Lots of other woods will probably release interesting flavours as well. However, the original thread had some warnings - names and types of wood does not always translate between continents, and some, like herbs, are poisonous, or have undesireable effects (diuretic, abortificant, diarrhea...)]]>