Sugarcane juice - looking for any tips or recipes
Was at a farmers market yesterday and they were selling glasses of sugarcane juice. It was cool to watch them feed the sugarcane into the machine and watch it spit out the juice. Me and my gf tried a glass each (she had pineapple and I had strawberry flavoured) and both were delicious.
I have some small carboys for experimental batches so I bought a couple of litres of the pure sugarcane juice with the intention to hooch it.
Has anyone had any experience hooching sugarcane juice before? I know that traditionally it is used to make a kind of sugarwash which is then distilled into rum. But I dont intend to distil this, I am hoping to make something fruity and at about 5-6% abv. Was thinking to maybe dilute the sugarcane juice down with strawberry juice and a bit of lemon juice until I get down to my desired abv. But is there anything I need to look out for? Any help or advice would be much appreciated.