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Orange on the left, lemon on the right. Lemon looks darker since I did an oopsie with the water level and had to boil for a while. Orange wine is at an fg of 1.006 and tastes very sweet, don’t even have to back sweeten it. It tastes different but I like it! 18% abv. Lemon wine has a very bitter back end. I’ll be screwing around with back sweetening it to see how it is. The lemon wine ended at 1.032 or 10% abv. Girlfriend likes both so I’m not sure which I’ll be turning into brandy but either way, citrus test was a success!

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm a big limoncello fan, I wonder if it will turn out similar

[–] poleslav@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I expect it to turn out very lemony. We’ll see how it goes. Distilling essential oils is the same process but I’m a bit iffy since I had to boil the lemon must for a bit to get it to fit my fermenter. It’s definitely one I want to try my hand at again, after finding something stupid to ferment as a meme again

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] poleslav@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

That would be interesting! Admittedly I’ve no idea where I’d find bulk amounts of it though lol