thanks, I think it's down to my artist/tinkerer nature. I do it a lot with culinary thing in particular.
I was going to see if I could evaporate out the alcohol in a cup, for a friend who's sober 12 years if he wanted to taste it, as I'm also offering some to his wife. But he's declined. So there is no need to do it. but a part of me still wants to try anyway to see if I can do it, and how the taste compares. It'll probably just taste like a spiced apple juice, but I'm okay with that.
Also one of my coworkers I was saving a bottle for was let go and I've no contact outside of work for her. So, as the days go by I have fewer and fewer people to give bottles to. I think at this point 1 liter is going to my mum, and a 12oz to my boss from each gallon.
I might offer some to friend on social media... or just store them away. It'd take me years to get through a couple gallons. And I still want to try an apricot ginger one, and maybe a melon flavored mead (no idea how I'm going to do that one).
And there is always experiments to try interesting flavors: mint chocolate, Almond, whatever the heck they use to make swedish fish candies, cranberry mandarin orange, Pineapple banana, Rootbeer float, bubble gum flavor, cotton candy, I'm sure other ideas will occur to me.