I used what I had on hand to start with, and added a bunch of stuff I thought might be good ideas from various sources. Best way to do anything, right? Well, below is my ingredients list and such.
Ingredients (exact amounts I forgot to record for most things)
-1 package dehydrated kiwi
-1 package dehydrated papaya
-1 fresh kiwi
-1 package strawberries
-1 package blueberries
-1 package raspberries
-1 cantaloupe
-1 honeydew melon
-1 pineapple
-1 package red grapes
-1 bottle Welch's grape juice
-1 bottle strawberry syrup (like Hershey's chocolate, but it's generic strawberry)
-2 cups pep-o-mint lifesaver dust
-1 cup sugar
-2 cups dissolved candycane in water (Thick! I used one of those giant candycane rods. It looked like Pepto-Bismol.)
-1 1/2 cup boiled Dr.Pepper (I boiled down 5 liters into that much liquid. A video on youtube I saw said that soda boils down to a weird paste that I thought would make a good soda-flavored molasses but since the stuff was still liquid that was obviously a lie.)
Right now, it's in 5 single-liter water bottles. Maybe 1.5 liter? They have drinky tops so I can let the air out periodically without it exploding. It fermented in one or two bottles within a week, but the fifth one took forever. So I mixed them all in a big bucket a couple weeks ago and split them as evenly as I could- and shored up the liquid lines with strawberry syrup and grape juice. The color is dark and thick, and looks like a deep Clamato. Maybe I should take pictures... I'll add them as attachments or links or something in a reply. There isn't enough sun out yet to take a good photo. I've been keeping all the bottles in my pantry; that way no direct sunlight ever gets to them. I keep my windows covered with dark blinds all the time anyway, so I'm sure no light ever touched them (until today when I take the pictures).
I really like Boone's Fuzzy Navel, so that's why I chose the kiwi. I didn't think pure citrus would be a great idea, so I chose melons. I LOVE Raspberry Lambic, so that's why I chose the raspberries. I chose the other berries because I could afford them at the time. The cotton candy I bought, but I didn't like the flavor as much as I'd liked to, so I used it as sugar. I chose the other flavored candy sugars because I really like mint. The grape juice I already had, so I dumped it in cuz... why not? The syrup I used because it's sugar and berry flavored, and its mostly mint berry/melon, so...
Ingredients (exact amounts I forgot to record for most things)
-1 package dehydrated kiwi
-1 package dehydrated papaya
-1 fresh kiwi
-1 package strawberries
-1 package blueberries
-1 package raspberries
-1 cantaloupe
-1 honeydew melon
-1 pineapple
-1 package red grapes
-1 bottle Welch's grape juice
-1 bottle strawberry syrup (like Hershey's chocolate, but it's generic strawberry)
-2 cups pep-o-mint lifesaver dust
-1 cup sugar
-2 cups dissolved candycane in water (Thick! I used one of those giant candycane rods. It looked like Pepto-Bismol.)
-1 1/2 cup boiled Dr.Pepper (I boiled down 5 liters into that much liquid. A video on youtube I saw said that soda boils down to a weird paste that I thought would make a good soda-flavored molasses but since the stuff was still liquid that was obviously a lie.)
Right now, it's in 5 single-liter water bottles. Maybe 1.5 liter? They have drinky tops so I can let the air out periodically without it exploding. It fermented in one or two bottles within a week, but the fifth one took forever. So I mixed them all in a big bucket a couple weeks ago and split them as evenly as I could- and shored up the liquid lines with strawberry syrup and grape juice. The color is dark and thick, and looks like a deep Clamato. Maybe I should take pictures... I'll add them as attachments or links or something in a reply. There isn't enough sun out yet to take a good photo. I've been keeping all the bottles in my pantry; that way no direct sunlight ever gets to them. I keep my windows covered with dark blinds all the time anyway, so I'm sure no light ever touched them (until today when I take the pictures).
I really like Boone's Fuzzy Navel, so that's why I chose the kiwi. I didn't think pure citrus would be a great idea, so I chose melons. I LOVE Raspberry Lambic, so that's why I chose the raspberries. I chose the other berries because I could afford them at the time. The cotton candy I bought, but I didn't like the flavor as much as I'd liked to, so I used it as sugar. I chose the other flavored candy sugars because I really like mint. The grape juice I already had, so I dumped it in cuz... why not? The syrup I used because it's sugar and berry flavored, and its mostly mint berry/melon, so...