On 11/1/2017 7:14 PM, graham wrote:
> On 2017-11-01 4:52 PM, Casa de los peregrinos wrote:
>> On 11/1/2017 4:47 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>> Just buy Australian wines. They all come with screw tops. No cork
>>> problems
>>
>> Auz-alkys like to slam that shit down fast!
>
> Whereas you prefer to distil your own:-)


I was tempted to make some Meade once, too fiddly and the stuff I tried
was meh.

I have made some killer good amateur Kahlua.

https://www.beanilla.com/blog/homemade-kahlua-recipe

Ingredients:

4 cups water
1 1/2 cups instant coffee crystals
4 1/2 cups 100 proof vodka
8 cups sugar
2 vanilla beans


Aged a year or less - not that it needed to be.