hellz yeah**. Now you're talking wine, brother! As long as it doesn't have sorbate, it will ferment. Because of the lemonade, you will want to use 71-b lalvin yeast. It will metabolize some of the acidity out of the lemon. Try to keep it cool while it ferments as best you can. toss in a little nutrient, shake the piss out of it and pitch the yeast. done and done.




**it probably won't taste as much like that beverage as you would like, but you should still do it. Backsweeten with stevia or something unfermentable until she likes it.

FromZwolle said:

that would be skeeter pee. you'll need a bit more sugar, and you'll have to backsweeten it or add some unfermentable sugar. my wife digs the batch that i made. i forgot to backsweeten, so mine just tastes exactly like lemonade without the sweet taste. you can always mix it with fresh juice or sweeten in the glass.

frydogbrews said:

hellz yeah**. Now you're talking wine, brother! As long as it doesn't have sorbate, it will ferment. Because of the lemonade, you will want to use 71-b lalvin yeast. It will metabolize some of the acidity out of the lemon. Try to keep it cool while it ferments as best you can. toss in a little nutrient, shake the piss out of it and pitch the yeast. done and done.




**it probably won't taste as much like that beverage as you would like, but you should still do it. Backsweeten with stevia or something unfermentable until she likes it.

Ok, this is all sounding interesting. Do you guys just make or buy 5 gallons of this stuff or something like it and then make a 5 gallon batch?

I make 5 gallon batches of everything.

jeepinjeepin said:

I wouldn't waste my time on less than 10 gallons....if I had money to burn. Get a gallon of good cider in a glass jug. Good, now you have a mini test carboy good for .5-.75 gallon test batches.

and when you make it, and it's awesome after a year of age, you only have to wait another year to have more.....

jeepinjeepin said:

I wouldn't waste my time on less than 10 gallons....if I had money to burn. Get a gallon of good cider in a glass jug. Good, now you have a mini test carboy good for .5-.75 gallon test batches.

My wife used to drink that Carlos? wine (crap crap crap) That came in a 1.1 gallon jug. Perfect for little test batches.

ceannt said:

frydogbrews said:

jeepinjeepin said:

I wouldn't waste my time on less than 10 gallons....if I had money to burn. Get a gallon of good cider in a glass jug. Good, now you have a mini test carboy good for .5-.75 gallon test batches.

and when you make it, and it's awesome after a year of age, you only have to wait another year to have more.....

but after it has aged for a year.... and it still sucks, you don't have to dump a 55-gal drum of it either.....

ahhhh...but wine is much more forgiving than beer. rarely is it ever bad. If it just tastes not right you can still adjust easily. If the flavor is funky, mix that shit with some sprite or soda water and drinky drinky. Very different than beer.

... I always believed that bad is bad... I remember the banana wine my mother made long years ago....... good thing that experiment was only a gallon...

ceannt said:

ceannt said:

... I always believed that bad is bad... I remember the banana wine my mother made long years ago....... good thing that experiment was only a gallon...

Just to put that epic disaster in perspective.... that was in 1972, and I still remember it clearly... and the godawfull smell still haunts my dreams....

And you haven't posted the recipe yet!!!

jlw said:

This stuff is tasty for me thinking about how I could turn this into a nice summer refreshment to get my wife drunk.

It can't taste like beer so What yeast would I want to use?

Add vodka. Done. Or Everclear if you really want to get her lit.

Vodka makes everything more fun.

But i am not a fan of vodka

Lakewood said:

ceannt said:

But i am not a fan of vodka

Good vodka mixes great... It doesn't taste like anything

That would be why I don't like it .....