Sketer Pee - Is started

[Julie]

I transferred mind a couple of days ago, I ended up with a 5 gallon batch and a 1 gallon batch. The 1 gallong batch is clearing already and the 5 gallon is dropping off the top part is lighter than the bottom. I am expecting to have this cleared within the month.

 

[ffemt128]

Checked a little bit ago. I'm at 1.022 now. Will be moving to carboy tomorrow.

 

[IQwine]

Success

 

[ffemt128]

I believe my pee is done fermenting. I need to check the sg tonight. I haven't seen any activity in the airlock or bubbles in the pee for 2-3 days. It's been 2 weeks since this was started.

Same pretty much goes for my Berry Melomel, no noticable activity in a few days.

I'll likely rack off into clean carboy over the weekend.

 

[ffemt128]

I checked the sg of the pee, it is done. SG was .990 . It doesn't taste very tart to me. I took a small sample and back sweetened a little and still doesn't have much of a lemony flavor. I think I may need to add some juice when I back sweeten to give it more of a lemonaid taste. Not sure. Looking for suggestions.

 

[Minnesotamaker]

...... It doesn't taste very tart to me. I took a small sample and back sweetened a little and still doesn't have much of a lemony flavor. I think I may need to add some juice when I back sweeten to give it more of a lemonaid taste. Not sure. Looking for suggestions.

Doug,
I've found there's some variance in the potency of bottled lemon juice; some have more kick than others. Be aware that the lemon flavor can "hide" when the Pee is dry. I see that you sweetened a sample "a little". Try adding a bit more sugar to another sample and see if it'll force the lemon flavor out for you. If the lemon still doesn't pop, try a bit more sugar. If even after a good sweetening, the lemon doesn't come through, then you may want to add some more lemon. Some people use frozen concentrate to back-sweeten, others use more lemon juice. I actually keep fresh lemons in the fridge and slice a small wedge and shove in the bottle before serving.

Be careful not to add too much lemon though. Skeeter Pee is typically a high acid beverage already. Bump the acidity too much and it'll strip the enamel off your teeth and burn a hole in your stomach.
- Lon

 

[ffemt128]

Doug,
I've found there's some variance in the potency of bottled lemon juice; some have more kick than others. Be aware that the lemon flavor can "hide" when the Pee is dry. I see that you sweetened a sample "a little". Try adding a bit more sugar to another sample and see if it'll force the lemon flavor out for you. If the lemon still doesn't pop, try a bit more sugar. If even after a good sweetening, the lemon doesn't come through, then you may want to add some more lemon. Some people use frozen concentrate to back-sweeten, others use more lemon juice. I actually keep fresh lemons in the fridge and slice a small wedge and shove in the bottle before serving.

Be careful not to add too much lemon though. Skeeter Pee is typically a high acid beverage already. Bump the acidity too much and it'll strip the enamel off your teeth and burn a hole in your stomach.
- Lon

I was planning on stabilizing and backsweetening soon. My sg was .990 when I checked over the weekend. I wanted to wait til I had time to take care of this properly. I was going to backsweeten as suggested wait a few days for everthing to mesh together and then if needed add a little more lemon.

It tasted okay to me although my wife thought it could have a more lemon flavor. I like the idea of the slice of lemon while serving. May give that approach a try.

Welcome to the forum Lon, it's good to have the creator of Skeeter Pee here.

 

[arcticsid]

welcome LON

Its a great pleasure to have you here! Many of us in here enjoy a good PEE!

Thanks for your idea on this, as you have seen we have tweaked it, drank it , changed the name, but it will always be Skeeter Pee!

Glad to have you here, would you like to pull up a stool? Have one on us!

Heres one for you Lon, thanks for coming in and saying hi, great to see you!!!





Troy

 

[Wade E]

Minnmaker, rumour has it that you are the inventor of this skeeter pee is this true?

 

[Minnesotamaker]

Minnmaker, rumour has it that you are the inventor of this skeeter pee is this true?

You got it; just my little contribution to home winemakers everywhere. Hoping to share and learn from everyone here on the forum. Cheers

 

[Green Mountains]

We just finished a successful five gallons of pee ourselves but took the advise of vvolf34 by reversing the process of fermentation. Well not so much reverse it but eliminate the need for a yeast slurry or yeast starter.

Simply put, I didn't have anything coming off of primary and am not all that patient with a yeast starter so...

.....I started the fermentation with just the sugar water and other nutrients. 18 hours later fermentation was going nicely and I added the first full bottle of RealLemon.

I acted like Devo and "whipped it real good."

Two hours later I added the second bottle and once again went "Devo" on it.

48 hours later gravity was down to 1.050 so the last bottle went in and once again I whipped in the oxygen.

I too noticed the lemon meringue pie phenomenon. It looked like a crown of foam.

SG continued to drop quickly and it was almost to 1.0 before I racked everything, including the lees to carboy to let it finish to dry 7 days after I first pitched the yeast.

Four days later we added sulphites, mixing all the lees up into suspension. Then degassed with vacuum aspirator.

Soon after we added the Kielsolel and a few minutes later chitosen. Clearing was visible almost immediately.

We've since racked to a clean carboy leaving the lees behind. We drew off half gallon of wine and sweetened it with half a cup of sugar. Seemed perfect so we made a slurry with five cups of sugar and added it to the carboy.

It's going to go into beer bottles not too long in the future.

Thanks Lon for a great idea, hope you don't mind the TWEEKS we've made.