Girlfriend wanted wine so I brought up a spare fermenter from my other house, giving lemon wine a shot. This will be my first proper wine (that I won’t be immediately turning into brandy) Glad to be back at it after the hectic holidays. I want to make an orange brandy next, but after slicing 50 lemons by hand (I don’t own a mandolin) I think I need a short break from slicing citrus.
According to some relatives my ciders are too dry and too sour. I always tell them that I like dry and sour ciders so why would I made them differently?
This may be the next level of sourness, I think that citric acid is pretty heat stable.
I ended up boiling it for an hour and tasted it once it cooled, some bitterness came through and lots of sourness, I’m liking the flavor so far. I definitely want to re make this (assuming this batch ferments with how acidic it is) while using far less water so I don’t have to boil any off, maybe I’m just weird but I find over pitching yeast and not heating the must produces wonderful results, so we’ll see how this boiled batch goes lol. And absolutely agree, sour and dry are delicious ciders!