water Mellon cider.

I have never worked with water mellon before I used five medium watermelon five pounds of strawberrys that I juiced one can of frozen apple concentrate one can pineapple concentrate one white one regular cans one concentrate and about three and a half pounds of sugar, it had a potential of making 10% ABV and has been fermenting well I also added yeast nutrient and yeast also used camden tablets and let it sit 24 hours before adding my yeast and nutrient.

That color is awesome. Can't wait to hear how it turns out.

Yes it was good very sweet before I added the yeast, I'm going to wait a few more days and bottle it so it stays sweet and pasteurize it on the stove.

Keep is posted I'm interested in hearing how it turns out

It's fermenting away now about three bubbles every two seconds, I think ill check the ABV tonight if its 5% ill try a sample and see if I want to bottle now or wait and back sweeten.

What kind of yeast did you use?

Côte des Blancs by redstar

Right on, thank you! How's the cider lookin'?

It's done fermenting I put it into a secondary carboy l, I wish I boiled the watermelon more its not as strong of a taste as I would like, I'm going to try something that may be kind of strange figure I would test out the idea of flavoring with snowball flavor concentrate. If I make it again I would boil the four mellon so that it equals the liquid of one so maybe in the summer when they are very cheap ill try it again, and I think pineapple juice would work well to sweeten it.

Very nice color all and all.

That's cool. Did you boil the rind of the watermelon or just the red part?

I juiced part of the rind but tried to remove most of the green, the white and green part is not to sweet.

OK. So, how long till you get to drink it?

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It's done fermenting I put it into a secondary carboy l, I wish I boiled the watermelon more its not as strong of a taste as I would like, I'm going to try something that may be kind of strange figure I would test out the idea of flavoring with snowball flavor concentrate. If I make it again I would boil the four mellon so that it equals the liquid of one so maybe in the summer when they are very cheap ill try it again, and I think pineapple juice would work well to sweeten it.

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The red part: you would boil the juice until it is reduced to the juice 1 watermelon would produce? Sorry, couldn't understand it that wel

I would boil it till its 35 percent of what you put it, watermelon does not have a strong taste. And I'm just leaving it in secondary to clear up a little.

If you back sweeten, why not use the juice of another watermelon? (After stabilizing of course.)

I could I just made six gallons not sure what way I want to use to incorporate the watermelon taste.

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I could I just made six gallons not sure what way I want to use to incorporate the watermelon taste.

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maybe you could use a concentrated form, like a sirup or something...

Well I tried it over the weekend, it had a bit of a sour taste, the smell was not as sweet as I thought it would be, it was like a musty smell.

How long has it been sitting?

Sat for about a month I like the taste, but it smells a little musky, but I like the sour taste I left it flat.

Did you carbonate it? and how sweet was the final product, I am very interested in this project

It was not all that sweet I kept it flat if you want it sweet then boil the watermelon a bit more.