Do you know if the home brew was 'natural' or 'chemical'? The nice stuff was more than likely a chemical with a dash of pure lambanog for taste and smell
We have 2 manufactures of lambanog within 500m of our house. One has two hectares with coconut trees. Since the typhoon he is lucky to produce 5 gallons a day. The other manufacturer doesn't have any trees and miraculously produces 500 gallons a day!