Post #718153 by AceExplorer on Sun, May 25, 2014 7:27 AM

Not everyone is declaring the lime shortage over. A Google search as of today (5/25/14) has some very recent news articles reporting that we're not out of the woods yet.

Local home improvement stores are often out of Persian lime trees. A recent re-stock at several of my Lowe's stores brought us nice looking but very young lime trees for $39.95 each. I bought one as a housewarming gift for a local home tiki bartender friend of mine. He'll have to be very careful with it during the winter season so that it doesn't die in the relatively short freezes we get here. I advised him to consider waiting a year before planting it in the ground.

As an alternative to using limes, he went ahead and took my suggestion to try using lemons here-and-there. He's been making vodka and ginger beer Moscow Mules with lemons, and they have been very well accepted by his friends and family and fellow drunks like me.

Remember that you can use your leftover spent lime and lemon shells to freshen up that stinky old garbage disposal in your kitchen. Re-use, re-cycle, re-sober up for the next round.

Tip, tip, hurrah!