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Florida Ponderosa Lemons

Ben — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:42:26 +0000

My family took our annual trip down to Florida last month and my father-in-law had some new citrus fruits growing in his yard. I had to document these with a couple pics because they are the biggest, thickest-skinned lemons I have ever seen! They are called Ponderosa lemons and apparently they grow very well in [...]

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Make Limoncello as a Christmas Gift…there’s still time!

Ben — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:56:37 +0000

There’s a lot going on in limoncello land! First, check out the redesigned website. It’s better looking and over twice as fast as the old one. Merry Christmas! There’s still time to make limoncello as a Christmas gift if you so desire. It won’t be the same as the kind that infuses for 3 months, [...]

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Picture of Giada’s Limoncello

Ben — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:51:09 +0000

Fellow “quester” Stephen sent me a picture of two bottles of limoncello that he made. One was made with my standard recipe, the other with Giada’s recipe. It makes a point that I totally forgot to make in my review. The lack of filtration in the Giada recipe will make for scummy-looking limoncello. You can [...]

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Does It Pay to Wait? Testing Giada’s Recipe

Ben — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:45:05 +0000

A new post, can you believe it?! Many apologies for my sloth, friends. I have a few reviews collected but I haven’t been posting them in a timely fashion at all. I’ve been busy working on other sites, but it’s no excuse! My latest idea was to test a few of the recipes out on [...]

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New Limoncello Calculators

Ben — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:59:29 +0000

Just a quick update to say that I’m letting these calculators out of beta. Some of you have seen them already if you’re on my email list but now they are available as a regular site feature in the right hand navigation bar. If you can think of other calculators that might be useful, let [...]

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New Review

Ben — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:08:58 +0000

Just wanted to let everyone know that I finally posted a review of Danny DeVito’s Limoncello. I also made a couple site upgrades. I changed the text links (in the site navigation) from the difficult-to-read yellow to green and made some other behind-the-scenes upgrades. Bookmark & Share New Review is a post from: LimoncelloQuest

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Batch #15 – Limoncello with Meyer Lemons

Ben — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:59:12 +0000

I’ve heard that Meyer lemons are a better approximation of the lemons used in Sorrento than normal lemons so I tried a batch. They are not organic (not easy to get organic ones here) but I scrubbed them well and used fruit wash. The flavor is…well…different. So much so that it doesn’t taste like limoncello [...]

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Batch #14 – Limoncello with Distilled Water

Ben — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:54:45 +0000

I changed a few things on this batch but only one that I think makes a big difference. In this batch I used distilled water instead of tap water. We have a WaterWise distiller that I used for this experiment but you can get cheap distilled water at any grocery store. And I recommend doing [...]

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LimoncelloQuest Makes its First Acquisition

Ben — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:02:51 +0000

I’ve gotten numerous questions on exactly how much zest I use in a typical batch of Limoncello. I’ve also had some very insightful comments regarding how I measure my ingredients. Apparently one “cup” of water isn’t the same amount in the U.S. as in other countries. Being American, this hadn’t really occurred to me but [...]

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Commercial Limoncello Reviews

Ben — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:35:07 +0000

I just added a brand new section to the site for commercial limoncello reviews. I kicked it off with five widely available brands of limoncello and I summarized them on one graph so you can easily see the differences. I plan to add more in the near future, feel free to make suggestions! Commercial Limoncello [...]

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