Derrick123
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Ok, great.
Mine seems to fluctuate between 70 to 74 degrees
Mine seems to fluctuate between 70 to 74 degrees
I'm bringing my batch to a bbq before a wedding this weekend. I'm mixing it with freshly brewed iced tea to make hard palmers, should be awesome. My lemonade is 11.5% ABV and I found that a 3:2 ratio of iced tea to lemonade is just right. One thing is that I tried to carbonate it but it didn't really work, I guess the yeast finally died out after reaching 0.993. I don't mind really, I just wish I knew that, I could've backsweetened with sugar instead of splenda!
Derrick123 said:Hi,
It's in a Carboy. I stir with a stir stick. I stir for three or four minutes
bovineblitz said:I'm bringing my batch to a bbq before a wedding this weekend. I'm mixing it with freshly brewed iced tea to make hard palmers, should be awesome. My lemonade is 11.5% ABV and I found that a 3:2 ratio of iced tea to lemonade is just right. One thing is that I tried to carbonate it but it didn't really work, I guess the yeast finally died out after reaching 0.993. I don't mind really, I just wish I knew that, I could've backsweetened with sugar instead of splenda!
CA-LT1 said:Hey Derrick, check this out:
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l6ElG8olaw
I'd do that for a minute or so, seems to work pretty well
bovineblitz said:The hard Palmers was a huuuge success! I brought 3 gallons of 11.5% hard lemonade (backsweetened with Splenda) and 5 gallons of iced tea to a bbq of about 70 people, they downed all but a half gallon of the lemonade and a gallon of the tea! I made a little sign suggesting about a 3:2 iced tea to lemonade ratio along with ice and a lemon slice, it was quite tasty.
The party was Saturday so I made 5gallons of iced tea on Friday morning using 85 lipton tea bags in my brew pot. It was a bit amusing to use my wort chiller and autosiphon on iced tea. I wanted to lightly sweeten the tea for a broad appeal so I added a cup and a half of sugar while the tea was hot. For just me I'd omit the sugar but it was very tasty the way it was. I put the lemonade in 1L soda bottles and the tea in 1gal water jugs and threw them in a cooler with ice.
It was pretty satisfying to watch people try the drink then share with friends who'd beeline for the cooler to make their own. My buddy made a bunch of dunkelweizen and big irish red and served it in a tap-a-draft system as well so we had plenty of homemade goodness!
I def suggest the palmers!
Mine is going slow or at least I think it is... I guess I just need to be more patient.
Reading on May 23 was 1.026
Reading on May 30 was 1.018
Should I still mix daily? I mixed today and it creates a lot of foam... Actually bubbles over the opening of the carboy.
Derrick123 said:Hi,
Ok, I will let it go.
I would gather that at this rate it will take another three weeks or so.
Do you find it has been a slower than normal process or I'm I on track with others?
Derrick123 said:Mine is going slow or at least I think it is... I guess I just need to be more patient.
Reading on May 23 was 1.026
Reading on May 30 was 1.018
Should I still mix daily? I mixed today and it creates a lot of foam... Actually bubbles over the opening of the carboy.
Mine seems to have stalled.
May 30 it was 1.018
June 5 it was at 1.012
June 11 it is still at 1.012
I began on May 8 at 1.075
Any suggestions?
Derrick123 said:There are still bubbles in the Carboy, little ones going up the sides. There is also activity in the airlock. The activity is way less, but there are still air bubbles.
If I bottled would I get bottle bombs?
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