After getting the chili peppers and the mead going I still had two airlocks left, so I've decided to attempt cider. One is plain, the other has dried cranberries in it. Fermentation begets fermentation, apparently.
That's because you live in #Ontario, where #alcohol sales are a government-controlled and -owned monopoly. Because alcohol sales are a revenue-generator for the government they set the price *way* above production costs. After all, how much could it possibly cost to let some potatoes ferment in a bucket?