Skeeter Pee - Starting with Dry Yeast - Page 2

geniz · 12-24-2010, 08:50 AM

Thursday night

Things are still going well. Aerated the must. No off smells. Still smells like lemons and yeast.

Took a SG reading. 1.018

geniz · 12-24-2010, 08:52 AM

Saturday Morning. SG = 1.000. Time to rack into secondary.

I got it to work!

But to prove it wasn't a fluke, I'm planning to start a second batch next week as an experiment to demonstrate reproducibility. I plan on chronicling the new batch and will take pics of the steps.

Anyone else trying this, please post your progress

Bradinator · 12-27-2010, 02:19 PM

Glad to see yours is working out!

Well I took a gravity reading this morning, 1.040 down from 1.048. The yeast is working, albeit slowly. I think I did not add enough nutrient to the batch initially so I introduced another tsp (1 cup boiled water, 1 tsp yeast nutrient, 1 tablespoon sugar, stirred and cooled to room temp).

geniz · 12-28-2010, 12:51 PM

Mine started really slow too. Didn't really pick up until the second addition of nutrient.
Yours probably will do the same.

B0whunt3r · 12-28-2010, 02:46 PM

I'm doing a variation of Skeeter pee with Simply Limeade. I found it unsale and I love Limeade more than Lemonade. I forsee the same problems of starting fermentation, so I'm going to do as you suggest and try and get this thing started.

geniz · 12-28-2010, 05:11 PM

Excellent. Post your progress

Bradinator · 12-28-2010, 06:08 PM

It was bubbling pretty good this morning just from the single tsp of yeast nutrient added yesterday morning, so I skipped taking another gravity reading, added the final 3 tsp of yeast nutrients and bottle of lemon juice.

B0whunt3r · 12-29-2010, 02:56 PM

I got a quart (only doing a gallon batch) of must/starter bubbling real good let sit overnight and pitched it before work. hopefully it takes off.

Also I picked up a bottle of lime juice to add when the gravity drops, but I didn't look at the lable till I got home. The ingredients read Lime juice, sulfer dioxide, and lime oil in that order. Do you think it will be ok to use? I know sulfer dioxide occurs during fermentation, so i'm not too worried about that, but the lime oil i don't know about. I heard oils can leave a bad taste, but it being the 3rd ingredient i dount think there would be very much of it. any thoughts?

geniz · 12-29-2010, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by B0whunt3r

I got a quart (only doing a gallon batch) of must/starter bubbling real good let sit overnight and pitched it before work. hopefully it takes off.

Also I picked up a bottle of lime juice to add when the gravity drops, but I didn't look at the lable till I got home. The ingredients read Lime juice, sulfer dioxide, and lime oil in that order. Do you think it will be ok to use? I know sulfer dioxide occurs during fermentation, so i'm not too worried about that, but the lime oil i don't know about. I heard oils can leave a bad taste, but it being the 3rd ingredient i dount think there would be very much of it. any thoughts?

If I remember the suphur dioxide was present in the lemon as well. The original recipe requires you to aerate the must for 24-48 hours in an attempt to drive off the preservatives (SO2). I'm not so sure of the lime oil. Its certainly worth trying. When you are ready to add the lime, I would add the energizer and nutrient 1st and then add small portions of the lime making sure that fermentation is continuing before adding more lime. I cant imagine that the relative small amount of lime oil compared to your must would turn the whole gallon, but I'd go slowly.

geniz · 12-31-2010, 08:12 AM

Ok.

Round 2.

I took pictures this time while making the starter.

Again, followed the published recipe for Skeeter Pee.

Making invert sugar: 16 cups sugar, 8 cups water, 14 tsp lemon juice, just brought to boil and kept there for 30 min.