Everything I read on research into watermelon wine or brandy people mentioned to not bother and that it never turns out. Decided to buy and blend 6 watermelons and give it a shot anyways. I must say, my apple pie brandy was my go to crowd pleaser, but this? This easily overtook it! (Aside from the 3 hours of cutting watermelons, that was a pain)
I mean I don’t condone breaking the law but also in the US if you don’t sell it the ATF doesn’t generally care if some liquor fairies happen to distill something. There’s plenty of legal reasons to have a still too, for example my clothes steamer calls for only distilled water ;)
Ahahaha I’m not against it, I just haven’t broken into distilling yet. And by distilling I mean wood alcohol for fuel purposes, of course.
Thanks for the recipe though, it sounds great.
For sure! Honestly even as a “wine” (it finished fermenting in a week) it tasted good, but it does require back sweetening. Without any sugar watermelon tastes like cucumber. Before the liquor fairies got their hands on it I added a small bit of simple syrup into a small glass of it and it still tasted awesome. I’m not sure how well the flavor would hold over time though, but with my quick test, it turned out great. I did ferment it rather warm, to get some esters to give it some sweetness to it, but it did require backsweetening to get it to taste right.