Hard Lemonade Experience?

[drewbage1847]

Let's see...

A grocery sack of lemons is what I use and I mechanically ream them.
2 sacks of yeast and a tablespoon of nutrient
high 60's - 70's
a month
lightly cloudly like a hard mikes
and nope..

phew!

[macgruffus]

Cool. Thanks man. I guess it's off to the LHBS and grocery for me. I've got an empty keg to fill!

David

[seanhagerty]

Let's see...

A grocery sack of lemons is what I use and I mechanically ream them.
2 sacks of yeast and a tablespoon of nutrient
high 60's - 70's
a month
lightly cloudly like a hard mikes
and nope..

phew!

He said "Ream"

[macgruffus]

Got my yeast but when I got to the local "Big Box" store, bulk tangerines where cheaper than lemons. Being a frugal Scot I got 20 pounds of them instead. So I guess tomorrow I'm make "David's Hard Tangerine-ade" instead.

David

ps: and, yes. I know I said "hard."

[numsquat]

Resurrecting an old thread.

I've done a few batches of HL now and SWMBO is draining keg after keg of the following recipe. I took Sean's recipe and have tuned it to what my wife likes. It is more lemon and less sweet than Mike's but she likes it better.

5 Lemonade Concentrates
1 Pink Lemonade Concentrate
1 Limeade Concentrate
1 lb Extra-Light DME
5 lb Sugar
1 tbsp 5.2 Stabilizer
1 tsp Yeast Nutrient
US-05 yeast

OG: 1.074 FG: 0.998
ABW: 8.2 ABV: 10.4

Boiled DME, sugar and 5.3 for 15 min, added concentrates and yeast nutrient and added re-hydrated US-50. Left in primary for 28 days.

Rack to keg, cold crashed at 34F for 3 days. Added 2.5 cups of Slenda and carbed to 15PSI on the regulator.

SWMBO likes it and I like it better than Mike's. Not as sweat and fizzy, more lemon flavor.

Will be trying some fruit purees in the future (raspberry, cherry, blueberries, others ???) Also will be trying a hard limeade in the near future.

[Field]

I think you should have used a wine or champagne yeast, they're better suited to fermenting the simple sugars

[SirNixalot]

Resurrecting an old thread.

I've done a few batches of HL now and SWMBO is draining keg after keg of the following recipe. I took Sean's recipe and have tuned it to what my wife likes. It is more lemon and less sweet than Mike's but she likes it better.

5 Lemonade Concentrates
1 Pink Lemonade Concentrate
1 Limeade Concentrate
1 lb Extra-Light DME
5 lb Sugar
1 tbsp 5.2 Stabilizer
1 tsp Yeast Nutrient
US-05 yeast

OG: 1.074 FG: 0.998
ABW: 8.2 ABV: 10.4

Boiled DME, sugar and 5.3 for 15 min, added concentrates and yeast nutrient and added re-hydrated US-50. Left in primary for 28 days.

Rack to keg, cold crashed at 34F for 3 days. Added 2.5 cups of Slenda and carbed to 15PSI on the regulator.

SWMBO likes it and I like it better than Mike's. Not as sweat and fizzy, more lemon flavor.

Will be trying some fruit purees in the future (raspberry, cherry, blueberries, others ???) Also will be trying a hard limeade in the near future.

How Much Water would be used in the 15 min boil of sugars?