Hard Lemonade

This post pretty much sums it up!
Hard lemonade

In the On Deck Circle

Next up we have the hard hitting yet feel good story of the summer.....Hard Lemonade! Now that our glass jugs are empty, Alex and I are going to be making hard lemonade this coming week. It should be ready just in time for the (hopefully) hot late June summer days. The recipe is going to be a fairly straightforward easy one so it should come out pretty well. Cans of lemonade concentrate, sugar, malt extract, and yeast.

I am actually really looking forward to this one. The cider turned out well for what it was. Next time I won't put the spices in it. It would be great warmed up on a cold day though. Nothing better than drinking hot hard apple cider, especially when you don't have to add any alcohol and change the taste.

Anyway, will keep you all updated about our lemonade progress.

Cider Bottling Day!

Well today is the day that the cider makes its journey to its final resting place (other than my GUT!). So this is where the cider has been for the past month.

First came the sterilization of everything. This took awhile as I had to let everything air dry. I tried to use the space heater to speed the process up but even after a couple hours it didn't work too well.

Then I realized what a dummy I had been and cleared out the dish washer and put the bottles upside down on the bottom rack, pointed the heater at them there and they were dry in about 30 minutes.

Siphoning was the hardest part and I ran into some difficulty at the end with air getting into the tube and botching it up. Oh well. I decided to bottle half as is and carbonate half of each batch. This will be interesting and I am hoping I don't have bottle-bombs at a later date. I placed the bottles that will hopefully carbonate, into plastic bags just in case though. So here is the final product. There is only one thing to do........."Relax, and have a homebrew!!"