I can be a lazy sonofabitch, sadly. I let something sit for a while, because I'm too autistic (not literally) to do things in a sensible and linear fashion.
Well, what do you know, it turned out good anyway.
I just turned a gallon of store-bought juice into actually fucking delicious 14%+ ABV fruit wine.
Tastes a fair bit like a brandy. And very on-brand for my current piratical mood.
I. MADE. GOOD. BOOZE.
Get on my level, scrubs.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
Best alcohol I've ever tasted was this mead that must have been sweetened and spiced with cinnamon and something else. Managed to make some mead awhile back but it didn't taste anything like how I imagined, was still sort of good and people enjoyed it when they tried it. I'm sort of on a mission to see if I can find alcohol I enjoy.
I've had three big crowd pleasing flavors I've cultivated over the years. A simple cinnamon mead is pretty easy and consistently turns out drinkable. The next step up from that is to straight up create a batch of homemade cider and use that as the base for a mead in place of water. Then I've got the most labor intensive flavor: Kiwi mead. It takes forever to actually prep the kiwis but it is worth it when it's finally ready to drink.