straining the limoncello tonight from one gallon jar to another gallon jar. it’s handy to have 2. we have enough sugar for kombucha and a batch of limoncello, but i just realized we made a double batch of a double batch (3000mL; 4 750mL bottles of vodka) so i don’t actually have enough simple syrup. i made the usual double batch of 4 cups of sugar to 6 cups water but will need to make more later.

let’s get more specific: the yellow of the lemon zest wasn’t quite fully extracted; perhaps we needed more vodka for the amount of zest. i roughly calculated 375 grams of zest *after* the steeping/extraction. that’s almost double what we used last year. but last year’s batch was also half of this year’s so it’s a wash. the liqueur is straining very quickly – all 3 times. i used a paper filter + gold filter all 3 times – it still filtered quickly. there wasn’t any green sludge this year. in fact, there barely any sludge at all.