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Well, a few months in, the Pee fermented dry no problem. We racked it over a few teaspoons of the zest to add a little extra lemon flavor since we were short on juice. We started the OG a bit higher than usual, we wanted it to finish out around 11%. Since the ingredients are precious (coming...

It may have already been covered, but my (admittedly quick) search didn't turn anything up. Has anyone make Skeeter Pee from fresh squeezed lemon juice? The wife and I juiced a bunch of fresh-from-a-backyard-tree-from-California lemons this afternoon. We have a little over half a gallon of...

I've been trying to figured out a good recipe for a chocolate chipotle-chili mead. I keep finding ones that are "almost", but not exactly what I'm looking for. What I'm trying to get, is when you taste it, it's mostly chocolate, but enough heat to it, that it tastes like one of those hot...

Certainly not. Lots of wine recipes call for corn sugar, some for table sugar. I usually avoid corn sugar because it's a little more expensive. But I feel totally comfortable using table sugar and corn sugar virtually interchangeably.

... but as a newbie winemaker (1 year now, woo!), I think I invented a cool technique. I was making a batch of Cyser, and I had 8 gallons of apple juice, but my primary bucket would only hold 6 gallons (accounting for foam). All my other vessels were full, so I couldn't just make 2 4-gallon...

I use all kinds of different sugars. One example, I've made apple-juice wine from dextrose, sucrose, brown sugar and honey (cyser, yum!). They all have a different taste. I use regular ol' sucrose the most, because I can get it the cheapest. I've largely moved away from dextrose b/c it's...

Hah, yeah, any time I calculate out how much sugar/honey I need for a batch, I start with 75%, and go from there. I got burned early on, when I calculated what I needed, and it turned out to be too much.

When I added sorbate to a batch of Apple wine 6 months ago, I screwed up and *doubled* the amount by mistake. It gave the wine a bad off flavor, but we cracked a bottle last weekend, it's quite tasty now. Time seems to fix anything. On wine conditioner, with my very first batch, before I knew...

I use my first batch of Pee, the "original recipe", as my guide. I followed the recipe exactly, and arts sweetening, my Pee was SG 1.016. So now, when I make a flavored Pee, if I add other kinds of sugars on the back end, such as strawberry or grape concentrates, I just use my hydrometer, and...

9 months later now, just racked it the other day. It finished fermenting at 1.012, just where I'd like it. I gave it a small taste, and while delicious, I can really taste the bitter chocolate. So I guess they weren't kidding when they said it needs to age 2 years to lose the bitter taste. :-(...

I make all my Pee with Lalvin's EC-1118. That beast ferments anything. I never use a slurry, I just make a rocking starter.

The wife and I bottled a Key lime Pee last night. 2/3rds Key Lime juice, 1/3rd Lemon juice. I used a can of white grape raspberry as a starter. It turned out amazing. Best Pee ever. Much better than our regular Lime Pee (1/3 lime, 2/3 lemon). *edit* and at 12% ABV, it sneaks up on you and kicks...

Whether it'll make a good Pee or not, I think I've figured out what I'm going to do. The standard Pee is 3 bottles of lemon juice. The Strawberry, Lime, and Key Lime Pee I've made have all subbed out one bottle of lemon juice for X amount of whatever. So it's all 2:1 Lemon-to-XXX. So I...

I have 3 gallons of a mango wine that stalled out at 1.040, and I couldn't get restarted. I was thinking of blending it into some Pee to make a Mango Pee. The mango wine is about 9% if I'm doing the math right (1.110 to 1.040). Would it be better to blend it with a finished Pee or add it into an...

*edit* Nevermind, I'm stupid and need to learn to use the search function. I should have figured there'd be eleventy-thousand people before me with the same question. :) --- I spilled some must in my fermentation room and got a bunch of fruit flies in there. Now, some of my airlocks (3-pc)...

I just bottled a batch of Lime-Lemon Pee. Instead of 3x 32oz Lemon Juice, I went 2x 32 oz Lemon, +16oz of Lime juice. I added 32 oz of lemon and lime at the start, and 16 oz of lemon later. It turned out AMAZING. I might try going 50/50 or 1:2 Lemon to Lime later, but it's Skeeter Pee! You...

I just bottled my 3rd batch of Pee last night... Lime-Lemon, it's CRAZY good. I can't believe how tasty it is! Mike's can die in a fire.

Yeast was 71B-1122. OG was 1.084 -- I wanted a high enough gravity that if the cherries/syrup didn't ferment, it would be 10%+ abv. But I didn't want a gravity too much higher than that, in case the yeast couldn't handle all the sugar in the syrup -- I didn't want it crapping out early and...

The only stuff I added besides the juice concentrate was a little nutrient and pectic enzyme. That, and sugar to get to the SG. It made 5 gallons -- I started with 5.5 gallons or so in the primary bucket, and had some extra in a 1.75L bottle to top up with after racking. As for the...

I bottled a batch of this the other day for my wife, turned out great. It cleared very nicely, I'm quite pleased. I used 6 cans of Dole's orange-mango-peach, 6 of pineapple-orange-strawberry, and 6 of pineapple-orange-banana. Tastes a lot like fruit punch, with *10.3*% ABV. Delicious...