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Just ordered this kit from LP. After shipping, it came to $150. Still a bargain @ $5 per bottle. Unfortunately, I will have to wait until sometime in October to start it out in the garage. Two other kits I will make again are the RJS Super Tuscan and the WE Nebbiolo,

Never pour it out unless it is really spoiled. Some no-so-good wines actually make good sangria. Or cooking wine.

Is there any reason to NOT use clear bottles for red wine if it will be kept out of the light?

That's good news for you. Add enough syrup to get it to around 30% ABV and you will just have that much more limoncello.

Unless I miscalculated, the 4 cups sugar and 8 cups water would give just over 10 cups of syrup. Using that amount of syrup (2.4 liters) to 1.75 liters of Everclear would give you a finished ABV of about 40% if you are using 190 proof Everclear.

I made limecello several years ago. It tasted great, but the color was rather putrid.

Bottled mine a few days ago, diluted down to somewhere between 28% and 30% ABV. Started out as 225ml of 190proof everclear, steeped in the peels for 3 weeks.

Duh! Hadn't thought of that. Tasted, and there is no residual sweetness at all. Then I rmembered that I still have my brother-in-law's equipment kit. So I used his hydrometer and the SG measured .994. Mine was still reading 1.000. So tomorrow I will go through the degassing and adding the...

I stirred the bucket as I was racking, to keep the sediment in suspension. I got just about all of it. I will wait a couple more days before racking to degas and put in the potassium metabisulphite, kieselsol, chitosan, and potassium sorbate. Right now, there is maybe a bubble every 30-45...

I had stirred in the yeast nutrient, as per instructions, when the SG got down below 1.05. Then when it got to 1.02 I racked into the carboy, again, per instructions. At that point, it was at 1.014. The next 5 days saw it go to 1.006, 1.002, 1.000, 1.000, and 1.000.

This is my second Nero D'Avola AllJuice kit. The first kit fermented down to .992, but this one has been at 1.000 for the last 3 days. Same hydrometer, which reads 1.000 in water. And my first kit was just back in October, so not a lot of time difference. I am assuming (maybe incorrectly)...

30% never kept me from a second glass. ;) But the glasses are small all the time. But I get what you are saying. Edit: Out of curiosity, I checked out the limoncellos at Total Wine and More. Just about all of them were between 25% and 30% ABV.

30% or a bit lower, maybe 27%

Just bought a kit from the Musto Wine Grape Company. Great price on the Mosti Mondiale AllJuice Nero D'Avola. $85.00 plus shipping. Last one of these I bought was from another company for $135.00. Shipping to Arizona from the east coast was really expensive, but worth it. Ends up being just...

That picture is just one I snagged off Facebook. I live in Tucson, Arizona. A few years ago I ordered a Sorrento lemon tree (Femminello Santa Teresa) through a local nursery. So I am starting to get lemons. Last year I got about 20 but only 7 this year because we had some cold weather last...

Those Sorrento lemons can get HUGE.

How many lemons? If you lived in Sorrento, I guess you would just need to calculate surface area of you lemons to figure out if you would need more than one.

No, I just don't like vodka at all. It just has a taste I can't stomach. Probably dating from an incident during my teen years.

Yeah, I understand that. I was acually responding to winemaker81's post above, asking if it really made any difference using high ABV Everclear.

I bring bottles of the 190 proof Everclear to my brother and brother-in-law in southern California because they can't get it there. It is available here in Arizona. Yes, you have to dilute it more to get it to a sippable ABV level. But the extraction is so much better and so much faster, too...