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Someone said that orange doesn’t ferment well so naturally, I’m going full send. I bought a mandolin and chain mail glove as recommended by someone on a comment from the lemon wine post. That’ll be in tomorrow so today I’m making a yeast starter for the orange brandy.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So are you adding sugar this time or not?

[–] poleslav 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yep! 16 pounds of sugar plus 16 pounds of mandarins or so lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Then it'll totally ferment like crazy, I did this with honey and quartered oranges.