Mike Flaminio wrote:
"Ben S." wrote in message ...

Mike Flaminio wrote:

They may explode, or even more likely blow the caps off. Are you a beer
brewer by any chance?

What I would do, is sanitize the bottles and caps using a high-strength
brewer's method, probably using iodophor. This stuff needs to be rinsed
like crazy so I would probably boil the bottles and caps. I would also
boil the tea to make sure that it wasn't contaminated.

Then, I would proceed to fill and cap while hot to minimize
contamination risk.

I guess you could do this canning-style by heating the filled bottles in
a water bath then capping with (sanitized) caps.

I brew mead and soda using similar methods. I don't know how a
yeast-innoculated fluid relates to a non-living tea though.

IMHO, this is a lot of work and I'd probably just make a big batch of
concentrate and freeze it :-)



Acutally yeah, I'm starting to brew my own beer. That's what I got me
thinking about tea, my other favorite drink. I have a vision of
grabbing a bottle of my favorite tea off the shelf.

So, are you suggesting putting filled bottles upright in boiling
water. For like 10-15 minutes? Then capping?

I'd say long enough to get the tea inside up to as close to 212f as
possible for about 10 minutes - i think that's long enough to kill
anything in it.