Record ALC Percentage?

Instead of accidentally making "rocket fuel" (as I've read many times in this group), has anyone here intentionally made the strongest wine possible? What was the highest ALC% you've made?

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A system of sugar additions to a must so that a high alcohol content can be achieved.If all the Sugar / Honey is added at the start of fermentation, there is a great danger that the sugar or honey will inhibit or kill the yeast. By adding small amounts of the sugars each time the specific gravity falls to

1.005.The yeast "LEARNS" to tolerate alcohol concentrations which normally would kill it. In this way, a slow , steady ferment is encouraged. This aids quality by not causing the vaporisation of esters.

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One can use either a combination ( cooking apples, Cider, crab apples, or wind fall apples) or single parts to mix with honey or, a or combination of sugar types, White granulated, Brown, Glucose white powder. For Exponential feeding, the sugars if added don't require diluting in water. However the Honey may require purifying before use. "Honey" is the basic ingredient of meads. It is the form in which bees store foodstuff, obtained from pollens of flowers.Since it is high in bacterial contamination, it is ESSENTIAL to ensure sterility by boiling, or preferably, with sulphite. When in liquid form after this process of sterilization the honey can be added directly to the brew without diluting. By adding grape juice concentrate 250 cl per gallon, and champagne style yeast, this also will enhance the Alc It's possible to have a potential alcohol (% by volume ) 25.5

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