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.
Alcoholic lemonade
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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!
Make a Lemonade from the lemons and then follow the steps from the concentrate recipes.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f79/hard-lemonade-68144/
this is a great recipe !
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f79/hard-lemonade-68144/
this is a great recipe !
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Good Luck.
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