re: asking for help with making cherry bounce

I remember wanting to make this ten or 15 years ago and didn’t think you could make it without the wild cherries. Excited to start a batch this week.

I’ve only made bourbon soaked cherries from a thread here years ago. It was enough cherries to fill a mason jar, and equal parts bourbon and simple syrup. I messed around with some flavor extracts as well. Used orange in one, vanilla in one, and a combo in the other. Usually just buy old Forester for this. Seal it right and put it on a shelf for a few months. Once opened you can put it in the fridge. I always have a few in the fridge. I take a cherry or two for a mixed drink and spoon a couple teaspoons into the glass before adding bourbon and a mixer. Usually sprite or ginger ale but also colas work well.

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Update and let me know how the hooch tastes.

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I'm going to try this, except i'm going to use 4 wide mouth mason jars, really gonna hooch it up.

Rouses had cherries for .99/lb, so I stocked up!

If I have some pecan whisky, vanilla vodka, coconut rum, and pineapple rum, should I do a quart jar of each?
Or do y'all think it will come out right?

Aren't you supposed to use sour cherries? I made some with Bing cherries once and it was pretty meh.

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If I have some pecan whisky, vanilla vodka, coconut rum, and pineapple rum, should I do a quart jar of each?

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well you have to look at what the end goal is, adding fruit to already flavored alcohol can be good but i think more often its not and why pay extra for flavored alcohol when its easier and cheaper to buy the base alcohol and add the fruit or other flavoring yourself.

to test this never hurts, such as the case where fireball whiskey and cherries works and is a good combo, but most times you are better off with a neutral unflavored base alcohol.

think of mixed drinks and follow the mixology guides there. vodka goes well with citrus like limes and sour juices so making a vodka and pineapple bounce could be really good or even a pineapple kiwi mango rum bounce.

in short, before wasting any alcohol, try tasting these flavor combinations first, and if they taste good, then add the base alcohol you intend to try and see what it tastes like all mixed together. if you like it that way then it will be much better after its all fermented into a bounce.

cherry and coconut, and cherry and pecan, dont sound like flavors that mix well

but pineapple and cherry, and cherry vanilla, both sound very good