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I'm not sure what forum to post this in, but I've got a lemon tree with plenty of ripe lemons on it which I don't want to go to waste. What's a good recipe? I want it to be at least 5% ABV. And yes, I have searched this site for recipes but I gave up after a few minutes of searching because all the recipes I found involved lemon concentrate.

Yooper

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Jack Keller has a great website, and I remembered seeing a recipe for lemon wine on his site that I would love to try. I don't think I'll ever get a source for good fresh lemons, though.

Anyway, I looked at that page again, and here it is: http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques48.asp

I think the last one looks like something I would LOVE!

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Cheeto

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Make a Lemonade from the lemons and then follow the steps from the concentrate recipes.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f79/hard-lemonade-68144/

this is a great recipe !

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chefmike

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I would also reccomend making some limoncello from the zest of a bunch:

16 lemons washed and zested
Take the zest and put in a 1 gallon jug with 1.5l of grain alcohol (everclear 180 proof)
wait 40 days then:

make simple syrup:
10 cups filtered h2o
7 cups sugar
boil. cool.

mix syrup with strained yellow liquid.

bottle and store in freezer.



Use juice to make hard beverage of your choice!

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I have made lemoncello several times. It is quite good. In fact, I have a batch soaking right now. I ususally pick up a bag of lemons from Sams, zest them, and soak that in a liter of vodka (the recipe I have says to use the cheap stuff), then mix up the simple syrup ( here I used Splenda instead of sugar) and mix them together and filter out the zest first with a fine wire strainer, then repeatedly through several coffee filters, until I can pour the whole batch through the filter without having to stop pouring. I then just bottle it up and put one in the fridge. I tried the freezer, but it didn't have enough alcohol and froze solid.

Afterwards, I juice the lemons and usually just put that juice in a container and freeze it, for future lemonade.

Sorry for the thread hijack.

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I was planing on making a lemon sage mead. I did a lime mead with about 8 pounds of lime. I figure 10 pounds in a 5-6 gal batch would be good for a Lemon mead. For referance, 10 pounds of lime juice turned out to be about 8 cups of juice. You can also harmlessly juice all the lime juice and then freeze it. keep it frozen until ready to use. Works great. So how much does a lemon tree produce? About 20 pounds? That would be close to a gallon of pure lemon juice. Not much sugar in lemons or limes, too acidic so that is why I recomend honey as your fermentable sugar source.

Good Luck.