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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    3 days ago

    I am now going through Spain and it is orange season, you wouldn’t believe how much oranges accidentally fell in my bags…

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      3 days ago

      How is the trip by the way? I imagine it’s a blast. But also, definitely take some home with you, the orange wine isn’t as good as the watermelon I made a while back, but it’s definitely up there lol

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        3 days ago

        Yeah for cycling the weather is amazing, for camping outside not so much… Amazing views that change all the time, historical cities but darn I use my card too often, I hope that it will get better when I can stay outside.

        Right now there are high winds and I just can’t sleep because it’s too loud.

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          Oh I’m a huge fan of camping outside, even in the winters with freezing temperatures and snow out. But yeah wind sounds awful lol