One Good Ritual

Goal

Homemade limoncello for use in cocktails

Spec

200g Meyer lemon cheong
200g distilled water
100g Everclear

Mix, chill, test

What Worked

The Meyer lemon cheong was beautiful in this. Sweet, floral.

In this ratio, at refrigerator temperature, the drink is dangerously tasty.

Notes

I added just a toothpick tip of lemon yellow gel dye just to get it out of that pale lemonade zone and give it a bit more brightness. Don’t think I’d do this again, it ended up like a yellow sport drink.

Next Direction

For the next iteration, I think I will go with the traditional route of extracting lemon flavor with the liquor and then also mix that with the cheong just to see how far I can push the lemon flavor.

No dye next time.