Hard Lemonade Super Sour!

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obie

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Started my first batch of hard lemonade.
10 cans of frozen concentrate, 3lbs of sugar, and topped with water up to 6gallons. I poured it on top of a yeast cake from a moscato transfer just to see how it would come out. It started at 1.066, when I transferred to secondary yesterday is was about 1.020. I tasted a sample that was left over, and it was extremely sour!

Would sweetening it with more sugar help?
 
Not until fermentation is done and you stabilize it. More sugar will just ferment out.
Look up Skeeter Pee, there are some long threads on lemon wine. I am bottling a 5 gallon batch myself this coming weekend.
 
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