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Thanks for the giveaway! Most recent was a Spiced Holiday Stout.

Just homebrewtalk.com and the Barley and Hops youtube channel

Sounds like an interesting recipe. Kind of a cross between making wine and/or fermented hot sauce. One thing I don't understand is the trick with the marshmallow sticks. What are you accomplishing there?

I made up a batch last night, although I didn't have any Sodium Metabisulfite. I'll just have to drink it all before it gets old :) Mine ended up quite a bit sweeter than the original recipe, due to a brainfart miscalculation on my part. I was going to go with 12lbs of sugar anyway, since it...

I'm getting ready to try a batch of this myself, as soon as I get a chance to pick up a nylon bag. Did you make it yet? I'm going to try something a little different with the sugar, but pretty much following everything else as written here.

Here's a pic of mine

Haven't updated since I bottled mine, so I thought I'd post my last few observations: 1) I think I had some wild yeast going in mine. It would not stop bubbling and the SG was not changing. I let it go two full weeks and it was still bubbling steadily (once every 10 count). The odd thing for...

Tested mine again last night, this time making sure to get all the carbonation out of it. It's reading right at 1.006 now. Flavor is VERY tart, but still can't really taste any alcohol. I guess it's in there since it's still bubbling along, but it just tastes like lemon/lime juice to me. Airlock...

Commercial hard lemonade is actually beer without hops...flavored malt beverage...completely different animal.

Well, checked it last night in water and it sat dead still at 1.000 I guess it was residual carbonation. I don't recall it really being fizzy, though that could just be my lack of experience/education with this. The carboy did get about a 2 inch head of bubbles when I stirred it up to degas...

Indeed you did :) Glad to hear your batch has recovered. Funny thing happened when checking mine last night. So, I pipe some out into my test cylinder, drop my hydro in there and give it a spin. As it's slowing down, I can see it's right at 1.010. Since my reading when I racked was around...

I hope it turns around for you. I'm no expert by any stretch (heck, I barely qualify as a novice :cross: LOL) but I don't see anything there that would cause failure. Was there anything different about the lemon you used? As far as my batch is concerned, it is still bubbling steadily since...

Perhaps. I may very well be wrong, but I just didn't get the sense, from what I tasted, that it would've eventually gotten that much better. The flavor just wasn't good. Let's just say it had a long way to go before I'd set a glass of that in front of a friend. Adding the extract had little...

Update: Well, this batch went down the drain last night. After letting it set airlocked in the secondary for a couple weeks, the "hot" flavor was just getting worse. Too much even for the extract to cover. Alcohol was right up front as soon as it hit your tongue and completely drowned out any...

Well, I'm not really sure. Part restlessness I guess, and partly because I'm new at wine making and don't really know what I'm doing :) I had to have it out of the room it was in by the end of the week anyway, and reading other experiences with this recipe, I got the impression it was...