This is adapted recipe is very different than the original. If you pay careful attention, you’ll realize that the original is essentially a cherry cider or beer. The brandy is just for flavor and to help extract flavors. But there is little of it by percentage, and the mixture is fermented like a cider, followed by a secondary fermentation in bottles to carbonate it. The adaptation makes a cordial, uncarbonated, with all of its alcohol coming from the brandy or other spirits added. As such, it may need more alcohol. But in the end, it isn’t what George Washington would’ve drank.
This is adapted recipe is very different than the original. If you pay careful attention, you’ll realize that the original is essentially a cherry cider or beer. The brandy is just for flavor and to help extract flavors. But there is little of it by percentage, and the mixture is fermented like a cider, followed by a secondary fermentation in bottles to carbonate it. The adaptation makes a cordial, uncarbonated, with all of its alcohol coming from the brandy or other spirits added. As such, it may need more alcohol. But in the end, it isn’t what George Washington would’ve drank.