i have some photos to share of the process. chris did most of the grunt work as i'm just not able to stand for too long at the moment... and especially after 9 pm at night.
the lemon peel and vodka mingled since oct 24th until today, dec 7th in a cool dark place. this evening we made a simple syrup mixture with a 1 to 1 ratio. we did 9 cups of water to 9 cups of sugar, heated it until it was just about to boil. then we let it cool. meanwhile we strained the lemon peel from the vodka, using cheese cloth and a large funnel.
it came out of the mingling jug a beautiful yellow color and it smelled like the cleanest thing on the planet :) lemons make me think of cleaning. they have such a fresh scent. once they were separated from the peel and the simple syrup was cooled, we mixed the two and then started to fill our bottles.
see the color of the filled bottles in the background? that's what they look like in person :) such a beautiful yellow that is just alive looking.
overall, it was pretty darn easy to make. i can't wait to give a few bottles as gifts, i hope they are appreciated :)
after bottling the pretty yellow liquid we did a taste test. it's supposed to be served very very chilled and ours was NOT chilled yet so there was quite a bit of bite in my opinion but i could tell that if it would have been chilled, then consumed, it would have been PERFECTO!
i leave you with this one final photo
4 comments:
Oh! What beautiful bottles. I am sure the lucky few to receive this great gift will love it!
Wow! That looks quite tasty! I bet it would have gone great with the half of bag of potato chips that I just completely inhaled. Oops.
I have to make some of this. I have many memories of consuming (possibly too much) lemoncello when I went to Italy several years ago :-)
That looks so good. I'm sure I'll make it eventually. :-)
Alyssa
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