Batch #10: Limoncello with Lemon Juice
So far in my limoncello-making career I’ve made very few batches that would qualify as unmitigated train wrecks. This is just one such batch. I read somewhere on the internet that adding the juice of the lemons to the batch along with the zest creates a nice flavor. I doubted it but like everything else I tried it.
YUCK. I can’t even rate it on the normal scale. It has such an overpowering tartness that it almost can’t be endured. Again, this was a fairly predictable outcome but I wanted to try it and now I have a batch of something, not limoncello, that I’ll have to use as some kind of disinfectant.
20081023 1:12 pm
Did you put the juice from all the lemons you zested into the infusion? I would think that for a normal batch, putting the juice of more than 1/2 of a single lemon would be disasterous.
20081023 2:01 pm
Ahem…yes I did. And in truth, I knew it wouldn’t work, I just didn’t know how bad it would be. That was the recipe I was given though, all the zest and all the juice of the lemons. The zest has a subtle flavor whereas the juice has a very powerful flavor, I’m not sure it could be used at all.