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My two cents: I've done a peach "cider" a couple of times using 50% Great Value white cranberry-peach and 50% Jumex peach nectar. I have liked the result, especially still and with a touch of backsweetening. Maybe try making a small batch of that to see if it would be close to what you want.

I'm a fairly new brewer (~2yr) and so I think I can list every hop I've used (apart from those in the few kits I've done): Cascade Palisade Azacca EKG Mt. Hood

Smoked porter. Don't even notice the smoke in these later bottles!

HB cream ale - my first attempt at using corn in beer. Pretty nice!

Smoked porter. Not too smoky though!

1.8gal Azacca Pale Ale 1553.2 + 1.8 = 1555

Pineapple Wheat (strong Wheat ale w/ T58 + Great Value Pineapple Soda). Inspired by the Homebrew Bible's "Sodapop Saison".

One gallon Craftabrew Hefeweizen 1447+1= 1448

I imagine this probably wouldn't be anything like that. I just bought lychee nectar at Costco, added a little nutrient, and pitched cider yeast. I fermented dry and I bottled conditioned it. Fairly tart; a bit of honey at serving helps boost the perception of fruitiness.

The last of the lychee nectar wine. Pretty nice, but probably not a repeat recipe unless the juice is on sale.

My first HB smoked beer: porter! I think that the smoke is pretty much where I want it, especially if I am eating from the grill. Maybe I'll see a better head if I drop in a Mento...

The observation that ingredient prices are up 36% since 2020 is pretty much in line with a recent WSJ piece that described food inflation since 2019 (I think) as up 33%.

I usually have 2 or three different types of beer bottled at a time, with one or two ciders as well. I make small batches (6L finished product) so I tend to brew fairly often but also go through my bottled batches quickly. Beer-wise, I stick to ales, mostly pale, amber, adjunct, stout, and...

1.75 gal cream ale (?) - 42% two row, 33% rice, 25% cornmeal; Cascade and OG 1.045 1273.75 + 1.75 = 1285.5

Honey Bunches of Ale. Somewhat sweet, but slightly undercarbed.

1gal Wheat Ale (I plan on bringing it up to 2gal with lemonade for a shandy-type beverage) 1102 + 1 = 1103

Lychee Nectar wine. I think it needs a bit of sweetening because it is DRY.

Bought ingredients and StarSan (also brewed). My "dirty secret" is that I've only used dish soap and water to clean and "sanitize" all my stuff for the past 2.5 years. But I got unlucky and managed to get my first infection recently and had some LHBS credit to use, so I took the leap and reached...

1.5gal Smoked Porter - my first smoky beer. 974.5 + 1.5 = 976

Edit: Oops, double posted - thought my first one was erased when my toddler got a hold of my phone! My first IPA (infected pale ale) Had a dry white pellicle after about 2 weeks, bottled it anyway. Pretty meh, but not awful. I made another mistake with this brew that resulted in a quite low ABV...