Hard lemonade / Skeeter 4 Summer 2019

[Blacksmith1]

Wait till it's finished and stablized, then use blueberry juice?

 

[Seamonkey84]

I'm having this problem with my blueberry. Any ideas of what is good to dilute blueberry wine with?

Depending on your batch size, Knudsen’s blueberry juice in you only need a few quarts. Though depending on your recipe, you might want to water it down. If you need a few gallons to dilute your mix, then prob the vintners harvest concentrate.

 

[EricaM]

Bottled lemon-berry-jalapeno today. Added 75 ml of wine conditioner. Forgot to take sg before adding 50ml of conditioner. After the 50ml of sweetener it was 0.99, which would put it at 11%, but it's probably a little bit stronger.

Broke the tops off two (used) bottles using the capper today. I'm not sure if it's me not knowing what I'm doing or just that the bottles are old.
This wine is yummy. I really like the jalapeno with the sour from the lemon.

 

[Blacksmith1]

Did a basic limade. Wife seems to like it. Have another gallon of lemon that will be ready next week.
If I do 5 gallons does the timing change, or wil it be the same amount of time till ready?

 

[bmd2k1]

Did a basic limade. Wife seems to like it. Have another gallon of lemon that will be ready next week.
If I do 5 gallons does the timing change, or wil it be the same amount of time till ready?

My 5-6gal batches using S04.....take about 1month. Cheers [emoji111]

 

[Blacksmith1]

So the limeade was ok, the second lemon used 71-B and was still too sweet and had an odd flavor. What did I learn from this? Yeast makes more of a difference than I thought, and if you really like it, DON'T change anything.

 

[OpenSights]

Mine is chugging away still! Down to a bubble every 2 seconds from the blowoff tube.

May 15 I pitched
S-04
OG 1.121
As of last Sunday 1.020
ABV 13.26%
I have made a few small extra nutrient additions.

Family reunion is a week from tomorrow. Mouthfeel is thick, still way too sweet! I’m thinking of cold crashing early/mid week, then rack 3-3.5 gallons into a keg, add a gallon of water and possibly add some lemon juice concentrate. I’ll do a small half cup, adjust it to what I like and size for kegging.

I really messed this one up....

 

[Blacksmith1]

Maybe not. At 30 days the one we liked was still sweet. And had enough alcohol to get me staggering a bit. With the amount of sugar you started with it may stay sweet all the way up to 98%abv.

 

[OpenSights]

Lol! Lemonade sugar shine!

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Just threw together another batch of this, used 6 limeaide cans and 4 pink lemonaide. Pitched kveik yeast and she is blowing off rotten fruit throughout the house.

 

[OpenSights]

Kegging.

14.18%

 

[bmd2k1]

Kegging.

14.18%

Better give the fam a head's up on that bad boy [emoji102]

 

[OpenSights]

Better give the fam a head's up on that bad boy [emoji102]

Absolutely! I decided to keg in my 3 gallon keg.... the rest came out to 120p.