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Lemonade wine?
I just did a lemonade wine... actually tried it twice. first one was from a frozen can of concentrated lemonade, and 5 cups of sugar and a little over half a gallon of water. Used wine yeast, but nothing happened. No fermentation at all. The second I used a bottle of frozen Minute maid lemon juice and maybe a quart of water, 1.5 cups of sugar, and bread yeast. It fermented, but it was HORRIBLE. not something to make again....
also made an orange juice wine from a can of juice concentrate. I think it's pretty nasty, but my roommate likes it. smells horrid, very odiferous.
Hogarthe wrote:
also made an orange juice wine from a can of juice concentrate. I think it's pretty nasty, but my roommate likes it. smells horrid, very odiferous.
Do you mean roommate or cell mate? Sounds like more prison brewing to me.
I just like to ride people when I hear of these odd ball fermentations.
Cheers.
Hogarthe wrote:
I Used wine yeast, but nothing happened. No fermentation at all. The second I used a bottle of frozen Minute maid lemon juice and maybe a quart of water, 1.5 cups of sugar, and bread yeast. It fermented, but it was HORRIBLE. not something to make again....
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What was the pH? I am not a winemaker and really talking out my ass here, but I think a good yeast environment should be 4.5ish? Just wondering what good lemons will introduce for acidity, maybe the yeast couldnt survive there, and when you added the other concentrate it had more fillers and less juice, meaning less acid. Just a thought- I'll wander back over to beer making now.
I don't know the ph of it. It was really just all for an experiment. I saw a recipe on here for "balloon wine" and using grape juice concentrate like in that recipe, it came out fairly good, just real, real sweet. After the grape wine, I just figured I'd see what other juices would taste like. Only costs a couple bucks to make a bottle of it, so no big deal if it's a tosser.
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