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Got the "Hard" lemonade in yesterday.-15 of Mrs. Holloways enormous lemons, zest removed with potato peeler, then juiced with my dump-shop special juicer, which I had to ream out the holes, to get to the security bit screws, to dis assemble and fix. The switch wouldn't engage, because the mechanism inside had come loose-so much for Aussie quality control...
So, zest and juice, simmered for 20 minutes in 3.5L water.
Place in fermenter and add 2kg sugar and 5oog Lactose(otherwise it would be too bitter once fermented)
Topped up to 22.5L
The yeast was Stillspirits Turbo, a white wine yeast with the nutrient already in it. This will make 22.5L up to 14% alcohol, but as I'm going for 4.5%, I only used 1/3 packet.
Not sure if I will prime bottles with sugar or bottle, cool and gas with the soda-stream adaptor (still haven't made that yet).
Also here's my new 60L brewer- a wheelie-bin from the cheap shop ($13). Drilled and tap fitted, wheels removed so they don't punch up through the bottom when I fill it, ready to go..
And yes Mark I succumbed to modern new-fangled machinery and bought a dehydrator-($49).
Not top-of-the-range, but I should be able to utilise it all right..
Also got 2 tins of Coopers Malt and some oak chips for a Malt whiskey, 15kg of sugar, and finally got onto a fodder store with Molasses for Rum-$2/litre- 6 litres (9kg) plus 6kg of sugar will make about 23x750ml bottles at 40%!!
This fodder store is the Barmera dog boarding kennels. He has Cider vinegar, Garlic and Curry powder, Chia seed, Flax and Sunflower, Brewers yeast by the kilo, Himalayan pink rock salt by the kilo, Sulphur powder(for the garden-also used to fumigate fruit prior to drying) and heaps and heaps of other bulk stores, and stock feeds, dirt cheap- an absolute gem of a shop for the self sufficient ones! And a top bloke to-boot!
20kg of horse poo for $3,
Also he gets them Big Black chooks, as pullets, for $12 each. An absolute Gold-mine!
So, zest and juice, simmered for 20 minutes in 3.5L water.
Place in fermenter and add 2kg sugar and 5oog Lactose(otherwise it would be too bitter once fermented)
Topped up to 22.5L
The yeast was Stillspirits Turbo, a white wine yeast with the nutrient already in it. This will make 22.5L up to 14% alcohol, but as I'm going for 4.5%, I only used 1/3 packet.
Not sure if I will prime bottles with sugar or bottle, cool and gas with the soda-stream adaptor (still haven't made that yet).
Also here's my new 60L brewer- a wheelie-bin from the cheap shop ($13). Drilled and tap fitted, wheels removed so they don't punch up through the bottom when I fill it, ready to go..
And yes Mark I succumbed to modern new-fangled machinery and bought a dehydrator-($49).
Not top-of-the-range, but I should be able to utilise it all right..
Also got 2 tins of Coopers Malt and some oak chips for a Malt whiskey, 15kg of sugar, and finally got onto a fodder store with Molasses for Rum-$2/litre- 6 litres (9kg) plus 6kg of sugar will make about 23x750ml bottles at 40%!!
This fodder store is the Barmera dog boarding kennels. He has Cider vinegar, Garlic and Curry powder, Chia seed, Flax and Sunflower, Brewers yeast by the kilo, Himalayan pink rock salt by the kilo, Sulphur powder(for the garden-also used to fumigate fruit prior to drying) and heaps and heaps of other bulk stores, and stock feeds, dirt cheap- an absolute gem of a shop for the self sufficient ones! And a top bloke to-boot!
20kg of horse poo for $3,
Also he gets them Big Black chooks, as pullets, for $12 each. An absolute Gold-mine!
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