Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Making a lemonade for the missus and I want to try and stop fermentation to retain some sweetness instead of adding lactose etc.

I will be kegging the lemonade so carbonation is not an issue as it will be force carbonated.

I have a few ways in which I have done this before but I am wondering how other people have achieved it and their results :-B

You can refrigerate it once you're happy with the taste however it will have to live in the fridge from then on so it doesn't fire back up. I've used this method with a couple of meads and it works fine.
Other methods involve either adding chemicals to try and kill the yeast (me no like) like is done in the wine industry or adding alcohol to bump the strength up above 16 to 20% like a port which will affect flavour (obviously) and also how quickly you find you need to hold the floor up once you start drinking.

I use EC-1118 yeast for my lemonade and I have had it keep fermenting in the fridge at 3 degrees, very slowly but it does get there.

Could you give it a quick cook in a pot,maybe getting it up to 50'c for 10 minutes or so :think:

Would flavour be lost by heating it up to kill the yeast?

I don't think the heating would be an issue if you could manage to do it without aerating it too much, but the more vessels you use after fermentation the more likely you are to get an infection.

Somewhere there is a link, where the guy puts the bottles in a pot and heats them, once the desired level of carbonation is reached and the brew is still sweet. Might be worth a go. :think:

Hmm, I could put my corny kegs into my keggle full of hot water I guess, that would feel pretty weird I reckon 8-}

Has anyone had any luck with chemicals?

How will the co2 gas react would it over pressurize? :-B

Going up to 50 degrees I don't think would be a problem, could always leave the vent valve open and then purge the keg again after with CO2 :handgestures-thumbupleft:

The corny kegs are rated to 130psi :-B

:handgestures-thumbupleft: let us know how you go..

Not sure which way I'm going to do it yet :think:

Maybe next time use a cider yeast that doesn't ferment right out and will leave some sweetness :handgestures-thumbupleft:

bayshine wrote:Maybe next time use a cider yeast that doesn't ferment right out and will leave some sweetness :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Prob a good idea, then also crash chilling should stop it?

Any recommendations on type of yeast in particular?

I can't remember the last one I used, it may have been a SAF cider or something like that.
I got it from my local hbs and I did what it said it would :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Sam. wrote:I don't think the heating would be an issue if you could manage to do it without aerating it too much, but the more vessels you use after fermentation the more likely you are to get an infection.

Heating will cause less gas to be dissolved, so any CO2 that is dissolved will come out. No problem since you're carbonating with gas anyway. So no issue with over aerating since the opposite will happen.

If you used a different yeast then it's pretty much the same as making ginger beer isn't it? Ferment until the right level of sweetness and then refrigerate and you're done. I've never done it before though.

Sorry for being a dumb newbie but is this thread about "alcoholic lemonade" :think:
I'm sure it is but thought no harm in asking in case in wrong. Heard of alcoholic ginger beer but never lemonade

copperhead road wrote:Sorry for being a dumb newbie but is this thread about "alcoholic lemonade" :think:
I'm sure it is but thought no harm in asking in case in wrong. Heard of alcoholic ginger beer but never lemonade

Me either mate your not alone lol

Azza76 wrote:

copperhead road wrote:Sorry for being a dumb newbie but is this thread about "alcoholic lemonade" :think:
I'm sure it is but thought no harm in asking in case in wrong. Heard of alcoholic ginger beer but never lemonade

Me either mate your not alone lol

Check the bottle shop Guys, of course you can get Hard Lemonade. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Not all lemonade is for kids lol