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**saddlebronze** · 12-19-2011, 09:39 PM

First Pee, missing something. Tasted my first batch of lemon SP and it is missing something. Has a faint lemon taste, but other then that it is kind of flat. I have it in cold stabilization right now, but thinking, should I Zest it now, or wait until it ages and then taste it again? Thoughts?? All new to me.

**rob** · 12-19-2011, 09:55 PM

did you add tanin?

**Arne** · 12-20-2011, 11:52 AM

If it only has a faint taste of lemon, did you forget to add the last bottle of lemon juice?? It usually has a lot of lemon taste. If you need more lemon taste, you can add some more concentrate juice now, mite give you some problems trying to clear it tho. Arne.

fleemartin · 12-20-2011, 12:17 PM

You may want to try blending something with a small amount to add some flavor.
one of my favorites has been to add 1 750 ml bottle of my homemade blackberry wine to 2 gallons lemon lime pee. I had a bottle of the blackberry open so I just topped off a glass of pee 1 night with a splash out of curiosity and discovered something I really like.

Julie · 12-20-2011, 12:45 PM

Saddlebronze, please post up your recipe and proceedure. Not knowing what you did and what you have added, the only advice anyone can give you is pretty much a guessing game.

**saddlebronze** · 12-20-2011, 03:27 PM

I used Easy Peesy from Danger, posted elswhere on this site. Followed it exactly since I have no pee experience, except I used my moscato slurry since it was already cooking and I had to rack the Moscato. Anyway it fremented out fast and fine, but as I said, its a little lacking. I did not add tannin yet. The sample I tasted was diluted because it was from a batch for pH testing so that may account for the low taste.

**Arne** · 12-20-2011, 08:23 PM

After saying that, sneak another sample out of your carboy. Have a little taste. Add a little sugar and taste again. Add sugar and try again. Bet your flavor will bump up. Hope you were not drinking any of the chemicals you used for PH testing. I have never used them, but the chems. used for acid testing are some bad stuff. I pitch everything I use for testing. Now if it was just diluted wine you were going to use for testing, that is a different story. Good luck with it, Arne.

**rob** · 12-20-2011, 11:52 PM

I still have to go back to the tannin, I have forgot it before and yes it was flat.

**saddlebronze** · 12-21-2011, 02:02 AM

Will re-sample and let y'all know!

buddy · 12-21-2011, 02:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fleemartin

You may want to try blending something with a small amount to add some flavor.
one of my favorites has been to add 1 750 ml bottle of my homemade blackberry wine to 2 gallons lemon lime pee. I had a bottle of the blackberry open so I just topped off a glass of pee 1 night with a splash out of curiosity and discovered something I really like.

I've tried blending skeeter pee with some of my homemade wines and found that it blends well with a lot of my wines.
The most pronounced was with a chamomile wine that did not turn out to my liking but add some SP. and it is quite nice.