Skeeter Tea Hasn't cleared yet

[sly22guy]

Made 2 batches 5 gal each. one pee & one tea. the pee is crystal clear. the tea is still not clear. Now i figured the tea would take longer to clear.

What have you other tea makers experienced? Started my Tea 11/22

 

[sly22guy]

Wow no skeeter tea makers? I just racked, sweetened & sorbate. So i guess ill wait a week and see if it starts to clear. if not guess ill add something. I did raise the temp up to about 79-80 so maybe that will help. Had been 68-70.

 

[1ChuckGauthier]

Put together my first batch of skeeter pee tonight with Santa Rosa Plum slurry from the fridge. while testing out a fresh batch of Rasberri, and some Santa Rosa Plum as well.............well you have to test this stuff. The Rasberri is in a 5 gal carboy so it may get to age a bit.......Santa Rosa Plum is in one gal jugs with airlocks....one is only about half ful so may suffer some abuse soon...ps it is at 14.5 ABV

 

[sly22guy]

Bump anyone have issues clearing "tea wine"

 

[sly22guy]

Well picked up some bentonite and added that so we will see if that helps

 

[Julie]

Wish I could help you out but I have never made tea wine. Sorry.

 

[djrockinsteve]

I have 1 skeeter pee that is slow as molasas in February to clear. May have to break down and make some bentonite to clear it. I used sparkolloid originally and degassed it very well, kept it warm, kept it cold. Next would be the spin cycle in the washer

 

[sly22guy]

Lol didn't think about the spin cycle yet! My Skeeter Tea is being stubborn. Ive tried lower temps, higher temps. Just added bentonite yesterday so ill give it 2 weeks, if it doesn't clear by then ill rack and just toss it in the wine cellar till spring and worry bout it then! If it does work i will def add the bentonite in the Primary before i add the yeast!

 

[Sherwood]

I was thinking about making a skeeter tea, did you have any luck with getting it clear? Also how many tea bags did you use to make the tea? I was looking to make it like a half & half or Arnold Palmer type of drink. I was thinking of just following Lon's recipe and just steeping the tea bags in the invert sugar, just never made 5 gallons of tea before so don't know how many tea bags to try.

 

[sly22guy]

I used one of the 100 packs of tea bags from Lipton. i would get a box of family size bags also from Lipton for my next batch. I followed lon's recipe and after i had all of my water & sugar added to the primary and added all of the bags. ( i pulled off the paper tags from the string) i left them in till my ferment dropped to 1.002 or so. gave it a nice orange tea color. flavor wise was pretty good, might alter it a little before bottling.

As to whether it has cleared or not. The answer is no. I did add Benoite and that did clear some. I just decided spring is a ways off yet and just stored it away for another month or 2 then im gona get it back out and adjust my flavor and filter if needed and see what it looks like then.

 

[Julie]

Hi sly22guy,

Well like I said before I have never made skeeter tea but I think skeeter tea is not a wine that is ready to drink as fast as skeeter pee. If I was you if the bentonite does not clear this up, just let it age and I believe it will clears as it ages. I'm thinkin' you just need mroe time with this. And I am very curious as to how this will taste, please post up when you start to drink this.

 

[xanxer82]

If your tea doesnt clear in another couple of months, try some superkleer.