We made a 5 gallon batch for Christmas two years ago.
1 gallon fall honey
5 gallon apple juice or cider
1 cup mulling spices
1/2 vanilla bean
D47 yeast
Add 4 and 1/2 gallons apple juice/cider to mix, and reserve one half to top off in carbon. Use juice for more light apple flavor and cider for more spiced flavor
I am trying to back sweeten my 1 gallon batches and I have been adding honey 4OZ (10 points) at a time trying to hit a final gravity of 1.010. It fermented my first three additions of that dry to 1.000. I just added a fourth round of honey and it started bubbling even more! My gravity reading today before adding honey was 1.001, 4 days since my last addition, so I hope the yeast has reached it's alcohol tolerance, because I've already added an extra pound of honey to each 1 gallon jug! I believe the abv is just above 17% right now, it will go higher if this keeps fermenting at this rate.
I remember Bray said he achieved 19%abv with this yeast by adding 1oz at a time, so I figured I would add 4 at a time and it wouldn't reach that high, but it looks like it just might.
For my big 5 or 6 gallon batch I have planned I am going to scale up and double the amount of honey added for each round. So for 5 gallons I think I will add 2 pounds at a time until the yeast poop out.
I'm going to need to go out and buy a lot of honey in the next week or so