Oh noes! Yesterday I learned that I never posted the followup photos to my Limoncello experiment a few months ago! Sorry about that. Here it goes!
A few weeks after preparing the lemon zest and Everclear concoction for the steeping, I got it back out of the basement:
![Limoncello](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6847673592_02c2d89c2b.jpg)
Meanwhile, I had obtained and cleaned some small, reclosable lemonade bottles (after drinking their content, of course):
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![Limoncello](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6847674106_89f1779b40.jpg)
Straining the zest from the concentrated lemon extract reveals that it has transferred virtually all its color into the liquid and is now almost white. Fun!
![Limoncello](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7207/6847675162_a4a8e1a592.jpg)
Prepared some simple syrup (same amount as the lemon extract, i.e., about half a liter) in a pot and stirred it in. As you may have noticed, this changed the tint of the liquid a little: I used raw cane sugar, which unlike refined white sugar has a little bit of a color of its own. But hey! Trading color for flavor is fine by me.
![Limoncello](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/6847675680_724ed8ef82.jpg)
Stirred it good, funneled into the bottles!
![Limoncello](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7050/6847676202_59bd0f457e.jpg)
Finally, off into the freezer, and after a few hours... Prost!
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