I had read about the hole skewer poking bit. They also recommend taking a few spoons of the melon out of the plug hole to provide a little more room.just an fyi. it take forever for the alcohol to soak in. so once you cut the hole, and tip it over, its not gonna happen instantly. leave the bottle upside down until an amount you deem sufficient is empty.
you can speed the process a little by poking the melon inside with bamboo skewers, but it is still slow as all hell.
I'm using what i got. I'm not gonna go buy a new bottle for just this. i only plan to put in a cup or so of liquor. No way i'm putting a whole bottle in. The mellon ain't that big and i don't want any pukers. Remember, there's gonna be a keg too, so the mellon may put people over the edge, and over the edge is a bad place to be. :barf:I would not use sucha nice vodka for this particular application. What if you get a bad mellon, then no one will eat it and you just poured out a $30 bottle of vodka. I would go get some Taaka or Smirnoff. When the mellon soaks it up, you will not be able to tell the difference anyway....Just MHO.