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.
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.