Friday will be the 24th, exactly 2 months after I made the batch. At that point I'll add the sugar and water and taste it unfiltered. If it needs more time to mellow I'll give it another month. I'll update with pics of course, and if it's good to go, I'll chill it and have you over for the tasting

4/21/2009 11:10:45 AM

Never made it at home, but have had it at Ruckus Cary when the owner was passing out free shots last year (probably a regular occurance). A friend of mine discreetly vomited over the railing.

4/21/2009 11:12:27 AM

i didn't look at the page before to see who you were referencing so i'm going to assume you are going to have me over for tasting.

4/21/2009 11:13:06 AM

i better be there for the tasting.

someone said something about homemade limoncello last night and it made me wonder how yours had turned out.

4/21/2009 11:14:36 AM

So how was it when you tried it a couple of weeks ago? Progress report.

5/7/2009 1:39:03 PM

just warning you again... be careful with that stuff... Its dangerous

5/7/2009 1:41:52 PM

What the hell happened to this?

7/24/2009 9:31:58 AM

i'd like to know too.

in other news...my loving hubs and his pal (grrr ) polished off my bottle of limencello that i bought in italy one night. he put it back in the fridge, but there was barely a cordial glass full left in the bottle. when cleaning out our old fridge i saw it was nearly empty and got really upset (it was the last thing from my trip). APPARENTLY, a new bottle should be arriving by mail either today or tomorrow

7/24/2009 9:36:53 AM

i went to school with twins named lemonjello and oranjello

7/24/2009 9:59:54 AM

^ you're not the first person i've heard that from... could it be true?

also, cello seems to turn out a bit better when you use something like sugar in the raw as compared to regular sugar. we regularly make lemon, lime, and orange along with batches of strawberry, peach, pineapple, whatever every now and then. i'd say the random batches is more like cheating since you actually end up using the fruit juice, but it still turns out great.

7/24/2009 11:42:35 AM

bump

3/24/2010 6:42:36 AM

yay

you never updated how yours turned out

but I was going to make some blackberry lemonade yesterday with the juice from a bunch of lemons, so I thought about how I'd wanted to do this too. So I made a batch of each and got to use the whole lemons

I saw tips that recommended just peeling off the peel with a veggie peeler instead of zesting it, so I started out that way, but then I needed some zest for the lemonade and whipped out my microplane grater and realized that was way easier than trying to peel off chunks of the zest without getting the pith

I am excited

and also the pretty lemonade

3/24/2010 9:33:21 AM

Something tells me that this thread will remind Dave that he needs to do something about that jar of yellow liquid in the pantry.

3/24/2010 9:39:25 AM

this all just seems pretty gay.

3/24/2010 9:46:00 AM

Any thoughts on whether grapefruit zest would be as flavorful as lemon? The liqueur recipes I see with grapefruit all call for juice too, but they are not going for something as strong as limoncello. And Google doesn't seem to have much in the way of definitive answers. So clearly I need more baseless speculation.

3/24/2010 11:32:28 AM

I love how this thread makes an appearance once in a while

My limoncello is still steeping. I added the sugar and water about 8 months ago, and upon a small taste decided it had a looong way to go before it was comfortably sippable

But by this point, over a year after its creation, all my zest seems to be completely white, meaning I've extracted what flavor it has to give. I suppose it's time to go for broke and filter it all out. I will do this once I've fixed the plumbing in my kitchen, as it is now I can't use my sink

Skwinkle - I thought about trying the "peel" method but I thought it would have been harder to do it that way and make sure I didn't get any pith. Also that since planing method would break the rind up into such small specs that the alcohol could more easily penetrate and draw out the flavor. Guess it really doesn't matter though, let me know how it turns out! As far as the grapefruit goes, I'm not sure that the rind holds as powerful a flavor as the fruit. Then again, I have no real idea

3/24/2010 1:37:27 PM

That's the way I feel about it. I just have a feeling that grapefruit zest isn't very strong, but I have nothing to base that on. I may try it and see. The worst thing that could happen is having some not-very-citrusy Everclear, and that can be easily fixed.

I decided to try the peeling method because one of the sites I looked at said you can tell if it's "done" with the first phase if you take out one of the sections and it snaps like a potato chip. But then I realized each section had a little pith on it I had to scrape off, and that sucks. And the surface area thing. So yeah, zest seems the way to go.

3/24/2010 2:07:53 PM

i have 1 jar left that i made about 3 years ago. i dont dare try it because there is a cloudy white substance suspended in it. i thought the everclear would keep bacteria killed, but i could be wrong. anyone know what this could be? can i just shake it up and drink it?

3/24/2010 2:12:27 PM

well it's likely to be homogeneously cloudy, but if you have mucous-y shit floating around in there i might be hesitant...but yeah, I doubt it's bacterial. Pictures?

3/24/2010 2:16:11 PM

hey guys

enjoy wasting a year on this dumb shit

i'm gonna go mix some food lion lemonade and some diesel and be ready to sip in 5 minutes flat

3/24/2010 2:32:11 PM

Just pee in a bottle and drink that. That's even faster.

3/24/2010 2:33:45 PM

there's no liquor in sober piss retard

3/24/2010 2:36:34 PM

you know, now that you mention it, i am regretting spending every waking moment of the last year of my life preparing this batch of 190% alcohol drank.

3/24/2010 2:37:43 PM

I can't believe I used fresh fruit instead of powdered chemicals.

3/24/2010 2:39:17 PM

lolz powdered chemicals learn to read

also paerabol i know that all you did was five minutes of work then shoved it on a shelf


but it will NOT be worth the wait


when it comes down to it, its just lemonade and grain alcohol, just year old lemonade and grain alcohol

3/24/2010 2:45:11 PM

sorry, no pics. it does look to me mucousy though. i may take a small sip to see if it makes me sick

3/24/2010 2:56:54 PM

good idea

just take a gulp

3/24/2010 2:59:27 PM

^

actually i just shook it up and it all disappeared. took a sip and it was molto buon!

[Edited on March 24, 2010 at 3:07 PM. Reason : .]

3/24/2010 3:01:48 PM

where can one buy a jar for this?

i dont want to use a 5gal carboy

nor do i want to drive all over tarnation to find one

3/25/2010 3:26:02 PM

I just bought a glass canister at Big Lots for $6. But I think next time I might split it up in a couple Mason jars because using such a big container seems less than ideal.

3/25/2010 3:29:30 PM

yeah what i didnt want was poor sealing on just like, a cookie jar.

mason jars would work.

walmart sells mason jars right

3/25/2010 3:33:10 PM

Wal-Mart sells everything.

3/25/2010 3:33:46 PM

A website that I just saw said that it only takes like 3-4 months to make this stuff.

3/25/2010 3:47:09 PM

There are websites that say the earth was made in 6 days.

3/25/2010 6:15:35 PM

Right, the 7th day was a day of rest.

3/25/2010 7:20:42 PM

lol

3/25/2010 7:20:42 PM

Quote :

"actually i just shook it up and it all disappeared. "

It was just sugar

3/25/2010 8:31:11 PM

i'm assuming this isn't finished yet, because i haven't received a call to come drink.

3/25/2010 8:33:58 PM

walmart had no mason jars
the grocery store i went to that specifically stated online that the store i went to carried bell mason jars, the employees looked at me like i had no idea what i was talking about
nor did any store i went to have organic lemons

my night has been a failure

3/25/2010 8:37:01 PM

^^ you would be right


and i have not forgotten my promise

3/26/2010 1:47:19 AM

ttt, B.

1/30/2011 4:10:10 PM

I've been meaning to ask you about this, Dave.

1/30/2011 5:44:12 PM

Oh! I finally filtered and bottled it a couple weeks ago, right at two years old

It's freakin awesome, couldn't be more pleased. It's definitly pretty stout, not overbearingly so, and if that's not your think a dash of water smoothes it right out. I will certainly save you some and I believe I owe Cody and Joie a toast as well

1/31/2011 3:56:33 AM

How long is this stuff good for? I got a bottle about 1 year ago, had a couple sips and it is still sitting in my fridge

1/31/2011 8:17:43 AM

I sweetened mine back in August I think. I still haven't filtered it either. I also have orange and lime that I should probably sweeten at some point.

1/31/2011 8:36:24 AM

My neighbor makes this stuff all the time. It is so freaking good! He also does orange, lime, rasberry, etc.

The first night he had it out there, I knew it was alcoholic, but didn't think it was that heavy - had prolly 15 shots of it sitting out on the deck....that was a mistake! It was hitting me kind of hard and I asked - hey, what's in this stuff? He says Everclear. I think to myself...Oh FML - I'm screwed. Good thing it was a short walk...stumble...home

1/31/2011 9:09:28 AM

had a few ounces of my last batch last night

i guess it's nearing a year old, but sweetened in like.. idk, june

still got like a quart left

shit's rad

1/31/2011 9:18:44 AM

Funny that this thread comes up now that you can't even make this stuff in NC anymore

1/31/2011 11:11:39 AM

You still could. You'd just have to make a whole bunch of it.

1/31/2011 11:18:50 AM

set em up

i made a bunch 4 years ago and still have a quart left from that batch. gona have to find a special occasion to bring it out.

1/31/2011 12:02:40 PM