OP
OP
The Experimenter
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I see it says you joined today! Welcome!!
Yeah, I always write in a ton of detail. It's my OCD, it won't let me write anything lacking in details haha. I'm glad it helps!
I've thought about using Nottingham as well. I have both Nottingham and S-04 from when I first started brewing back in September and I was big into Cider which is what I used them on. I still love cider, but I decided to try the lemonade at random a couple of months ago (before I even knew Skeeter Pee was a thing; I just saw the organic Lemonade at the store and thought to myself, "Hmm, wonder what would happen if I threw yeast in that?"... My tendencies to try random things like this are why I call myself The Experimenter). It turned out so well that I've just kept doing that the past few months. The S-04 worked so well too that it's been pretty much my only Skeeter Pee yeast for a while. I've considered using Nottingham and S-05 as well just to see what happens, but haven't done it yet.
To answer your questions:
- No details on bottling. I haven't carbed any of them, nor have I done any aging. That's one of the beautiful things about Skeeter Pee... It's immediately ready. As soon as it is at the gravity/sweetness/ABV (whatever the cutoff is in my mind for that specific batch for where I want it to stop) I cold crash for 24 hours and it is good to go. So far, I've been bottling and slapping on my own labels (and even using some custom crown caps I made and ordered from BottleMark Custom Bottle Caps and Labels: Design Custom Bottle Cap just because I thought it would be fun... and it was) for no reason other than it makes it look nice when I share it with family and friends. It is purely aesthetic. I could just as easily bottle it in my 1-liter swing tops, divide it into 2 different 64oz growlers or plastic juice jugs , or just rack it into a different 1 gallon jug (to get it off the sediment from cold crashing) with no difference in taste or quality as compared to when I put it in my 12oz bottles. There's no reason I put it in the bottles other than aesthetics... At least not yet. I have considered carbing. Sometimes the lemonade seems a bit too flat for me and I have considered carbing, especially on my recent Skeeter Peech. However, my friends all told me flat is fine because that is how lemonade is usually enjoyed anyway and that if I do carb, to do only a very light carbing (like 2-3 priming tablets at most for a light sparkle).
- I have Four 1-gallon glass jugs, Two 3-gallon plastic carboys, and a 6.5-gallon "Catalyst Fermentation System" conical fermenter. I'm not making small batches for lack of equipment. I'm doing small batches for 2 reasons. First of all, I've been doing small batches in order to try to find the right recipe before I step it up and go big... but why only 1 small batch at a time? Well, I do not have a lack of equipment but I do have a lack of space. I live with others and there's only so much space in our living areas I can claim for fermenters. I store my fermenters in the basement and will soon be able to brew down there again, but during the winter it has been too cold down there to brew (average daily temp has been hovering around 45-50 all winter). However, temps are rising and soon the basement will average around 60-65 (as it tends to do throughout the non-winter months), the perfect temp for S-04 fermentation. Hopefully, I will soon be able to get all of my equipment going and ideally be able to fill all my fermenters and have 15+ gallons of Skeeter Pee going at once [shrieks excitedly just thinking about it]. I'm thinking about doing just an original Skeeter Pee or replicating the Violet Skeeter Pee from earlier in this thread... both of those are still my favorite (the Prickly Pear and White Peach were good, but not the best in my opinion).
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