"After the cones are harvested, they are cut into 3–5 mm slices and soaked in grain brandy."
That's disappointing. It's pine flavored brandy. It isn't actually made from pine.
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Where were expecting enough fermentable sugar to come from a pine tree?
You could break down the cellulose in the wood into simpler sugars and ferment those.
that's what was disappointing. I expected something different or a unique pine tree.
Anyone had it? Is it worth trying?