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.
Back when I was college aged, and hung out with college going people, we would make wine from juice all the time. At any given time at least one person in my social circle would have a few gallons going. The results were never consistent and not always tasty. So, awesome you made something good!
We figured we were saving money but at the time we could also buy a case of local glass bottle beer for 10-15 bucks. This was around 2006.