so I finally kegged this.
yeah, I know. too much going on.
been in the fermentor since april/may.
nice and clear at least.
I boiled 5 gallons of water, put half in each keg then split the 5 gallon batch of fermented sugar water.
I nailed the lime juice perfectly.
kept adding until I got the right strength.
which got me buzzed because it took way more than I thought it would.
so many samples.
got cocky with the mandarin orange extract put half the bottle in (2 oz) because many said half a bottle on youtube.
too much. It has a slight medicinal after taste. 1.5 oz would of probably done me right.
i'm force carb it up now and will see how it goes. carbonation changes flavors.
i'll either have to power through a gallon then add some water or just add some other type of flavoring like orange peel tea made in my french press or soda flavoring like
sketchiey mentioned.
the one thing i'd like to mention, with 2 full bags of sugar in 5 gallons it had a slight yellow tint to it and a wine flavor.
but after diluting it by half and adding flavoring it's crystal clear and that wine taste was gone.