Commercial Limoncello Reviews
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!
20081207 6:19 pm
Thanks for this. http://limoncelloquest.com/ is now in my feed reader, I’ll keep and eye out for your next story. I like the layout of your site, nice and clean and easy to read. Thakns.
20081208 5:16 am
I was reading over your site and like what I saw. I just wanted to say keep up the good work.
20081211 8:47 am
What about Danny Devito Limoncello?
20081211 9:53 am
I have never seen Danny DeVito Limoncello at any liquor stores in my area. If I do, I’ll certainly buy some and review it as I hear it’s very good for commercial limoncello.
20081229 7:10 pm
That’s funny – I was looking up cocktail recipes to use some of my homemade limoncello and stumbled on this site – and it turns out you commented on my blog last week! Anyway, enjoy the site.
20081230 1:36 pm
I bought the Danny Devito just yesterday, it’s my second time I’ve tasted Limoncello so I cannot compare it to many others. I don’t know which brand I tasted the first time, it may have been homemade. But my 2cents, I found DV on the harsh side, syrupy, missing the zest and tang that I enjoyed with my first taste of limoncello. Homemade may be your best way to go, the recipe seems easy enough to make.
20090105 2:10 pm
Revise to Danny Devito Limoncello. I am revising my review. When I first bought it, I did not sufficiently chill it hence my not so good review of the product. But after chilling the bottle in the freezer, the flavor is much better; zesty, pleasant, not as harsh and refreshing, with just the right amount of heat. Overall, a good product in my opionion.
20090114 8:56 pm
Hi Ben thanks for posting on y site – I’d love to chat more with you re: limoncello – I think the alc one uses in the limoncello is VERY important – we use eau de vie and man it’s good
20090202 12:32 am
It’s ok to have a comment.
20090202 9:14 am
Great site. Have you ever try to figure out how much water and sugar to add to get to a certian proof and sweetness in the final product? seems like this would be the way to compare batches.
If I’ve figured this out correctly, your batch 6 was 65.65 proof, while batch 7 was 43.48 proof and batch 13 is 60.89 proof
(final proof = (ABV*V1 + ABV*V2)/(V1+V2)
ABV= Alcohol By Volume — so the ABV of 151 everclear is .755
And the sweetness is a ratio of the amount of sugar to the amount of liquid (Vsugar/Vliquid), so in your batch 6 the sweetness ratio is .278, batch 7 is .243 while batch 13 is .20
I’m in the process of making 3 batches (B1=191 everclear and 100 proof vodka, B2=100 proof vodka and B3=80 proof vodka) and am going for a final product of 60 proof limoncello and a sweetness of .25
the only problem is it will be a while before I can sample them
(to compute amount of water to add to a batch to get a certian proof, use the formula
Vwater = (ABVliquor*Vliquor – ABVfinal*Vliquor)/AVBfinal
I just put it into a spreadsheet
Food (or should I say ‘liquid’) for thought
Paul
20090203 10:57 am
Good stuff Paul. I have done this calculation on batches before but I don’t do it every time. Probably should.
20090519 10:15 am
What about Limoncello di Capri?
20090824 7:14 pm
Caravello is terrible.
It tastes like rubbing alcohol with lemon.
I dreamed of tasting lemoncello for a long time before I tried it. The only brand available to me was Caravello is boy was that a mistake.
I am going to try anouther brand and make my own.
20091212 11:19 pm
Awesome site! Just made a batch using 750ml of Everclear (190 proof), need to know the best sugar to water ratio to make my syrup. Thanks for the help.