Patrick Markovics
Active Member
So I bought the tea in question and tried it. Due to it having the texture of orange juice with pulp in it, which I hate, and instead of throwing the whole thing out, I put it into a little big mouth bubbler as an experiment. I did end up adding 1/2 cup of honey to bring up the hydrometer reading to 1.090, but looking back at it now I think this was a mistake as I did not think about the sugar in the candied citrus peels. I have no idea how much ferment-able sugar there really is in the mix. The fermentation has been weird, but then again I'm new to this. It stratified into three layers pretty quickly, but the two bottom layers are getting thinner and thinner as the fermentation continues. Has anyone else done this? And If you did how did it turn out?