Quote Originally Posted by Nellie View Post
DR the official recipe is:

3lbs of honey
1/4 of a mug of stewed tea (for the tannin)
1/2 teaspoon of yeast extract as a nutrient
5ml of lemon juice (citric acid?) I used a couple of old limes in mine rather than chuck them out.
Yeast as per instructions which seems to be typically 1gram per demijohn if you buy a 5gm packet
top up with water to fill.

That's what I'm working from and playing around with
Nellie thanks a lot I started some today but didn't remember your recipe as well as I thought I had .
so it contains 3lbs of honey (ok there)
57ml of lactic acid (had that for making flower wines) eek!!
1 cup of lemon tea oops!!
some yeast nutrient (don't know what that does) from Ebay
1 packet of yeast (turns out thats way too much)

Tasted like nice lemonade before the yeast went in
So all in all I expect the airlock to clog and a jolly big bang landing me in trouble again LOL!