Sima 1 - 'brew' day

The Brew

A few months ago I picked up a new book, Speed Brewing by Mary Izett. In this book, Mary presents methods and recipes for all sorts of quick, generally low alcohol, fermented beverages. Almost every recipe in that book is super easy to make, but one struck me as both easy and delicious sounding, so I had to take a stab at it. That one was the recipe for a historical drink from Finland called Sima. Sima is a fermented lemon drink made from water, lemons, sugar and yeast. Think an alcoholic lemonade.

The Recipe

Grain/Sugars:

7 lemons, thinly sliced

3 cups of table sugar

Yeast
Champagne yeast

Brewday
Boiled 6 cups of water. Mandolin thin sliced the lemons. In a large bowl, added lemons, sugar an off-boil water. Steeped for 10 minutes. Cooled down, racked to carboy and pitched yeast. That's it.