watermelon

I got a small bottle of watermelon moonshine from a bud's friend. Assuming most of the sugars are from standard sugar. It smells vaguely fruity mixed with burning. And tastes like burning as well. Lol I thought I would turn it into more of a fruit liqueur but would like to actually write down...

YELLOW WATERMELONS from my local produce stand! They're supposed to be sweeter and taste more like honey. Testing alcohol potential of the juice. Highly considering making a mead with them. UPDATE: 1.030 SG from the juice itself and no additional sugars. Most likely going to do at least a 1gal...

Hey Y'all My watermelon mead wasn't (link) a complete disaster. The taste came out tasting, like watermelons of course but the smell is awful. It smells like bad watermelon or a dirty shoe and smell is sort of apart of taste. No bacteria growth as far as i can tell. Good clarity and Fermented...

I made a 3 gallon watermelon mead a few weeks ago from fresh watermelon juice. cut out the inner watermelon and blended it. Strained it with a mesh strainer 3 times each in a bowl to get out the watermelon bits. The taped stopper was because the damn thing got pushed into far after I left so...

A couple years back I brewed a fairly basic wheat beer with a watermelon flavoring. It was a pretty big hit, but I'm not a fan of the wheat homebrews. I'm considering brewing up a similar beer, but using barley instead of wheat and pitching with an American Ale yeast. Most likely a SMaSH with a...

I am making my first attempt at watermelon wine on Monday. I have a decent amount of beer experience, but I've never done a wine. id love some feedback on my recipe. One gallon batch: take a large watermelon and puree the inside, run through a strainer to remove excess pulp. add 1 1/2lbs sugar...