I don't get Concord grape juice. For the longest time, I puzzled over where the bizarre taste of American grape flavoring came from; turns out it's Concord grapes. There's a large chance, therefore, that I won't actually like this pyment, but science must go on.

Ingredients in this batch

  • 64 oz RW Knudsen Just Concord grape juice
  • 28 oz Kirkland clover honey
  • 1 tsp yeast nutrient
  • ½ pack of Lalvin 1118 wine yeast
  • Denver tap water to 1 gallon
  • 12 oz brown sugar, added on 7/8

Process

Well, this drank sure is purple. Starting gravity was 1.080. This fermented completely dry, resulting in a truly horrifying-tasting substance. In a halfhearted attempt to save a pyment that basically tastes like grape flavoring and nothing else, I chucked in 3/4 lb of brown sugar on 7/8.

I bottled this sucker on 8/5 and noted that it "still tastes like flavoring." Final gravity came in at 1.035 for an ABV around 10.5%.