This one's a mashup of three great things that go great together: pear juice; honeycrisp juice; and mesquite honey. The Lonely Island reference came naturally here.

Ingredients in this batch

  • 1.5 lbs Trader Joe's Mostly Mesquite honey
  • 32 oz Knudsen's organic pear juice
  • Kroger honeycrisp apple juice to 1 gallon
  • ⅓ pack Inland Island INIS-970 Fruit Sacch yeast
  • 1 tsp yeast nutrient

Process

This one was a right pain to mix; should have heated the honey more. The must was crazy delicious, though: Somehow all three components really came through. Starting gravity was 1.090.

I wound up bottling this on 8/26 with a final gravity of 0.996 (dryyyy) and a calculated ABV of 11.8%.