Happy New Year! May your alcohol be plentiful, high proof and tasty.

"why yes I take great care in ensuring my own longevity how could you tell"

The “Drunkard’s Lock” is an unusual medieval door mechanism dating to 1380 AD in Regensburg, Germany.

Its primary function was aledgly to assist homeowners in unlocking their doors in complete darkness, a practical solution given the lack of streetlights in medieval times and the fact that drinking wine was often safer than water.

The design reflects practical medieval problem-solving with a touch of humor.

The lock remains preserved on a historic door in Regensburg today.

And after 1 month + 1 week, it is done. Obviously needs a little time to age but already tastes excellent.
Pomelo, tangerine and grapefruit wine.
3 Citruses is gonna be the name of it.
Finished out to 12%

Alriiiight I accidentally made this wine into an aperitif or a digestif depending on if I add sugar to it.
One bottle can be shared among 5-7 people.

Completely forgot that I had set some bottles outside for keeping. They froze so it's time to jack

Gassy (and oxidized)

Already made a mess opening bottles

Entire kitchen smells like oxidized wine ffs

a bit off topic but i also like a nice coffee so i might coffeepost from time to time to keep up the traffic

winecrap/coffeeshits

In the middle of finally mixing together the third run of my metheglin brandy (I gotta make a name for this) and I have to say, it's turning out pretty fantastic.

Brandy in a jar

And the final tally came to slightly less than 3 liters (~2900 ml) of 40%/80 proof metheglin brandy.