My son came up from Alabama not long ago and we made a potfull of this ‘apple pie’. He used a fifth of Everclear, a quart of apple juice, a quart of apple cider (non-alcohol), a cup of brown sugar, a cup of honey, three tablespoons of ground cinnamon, a half teaspoon ofnutmeg, all brought to a boil then removed from heat and poured into pint jars with a cinnamon stick in each and sealed. I opened one last week and found it to be too cinnamony, so I called him and he told me that was the first time he put a stick in the jars before sealing and that he will not be using the sticks in future batches. It really does taste like liquid apple pie! Drink it straight from the fridge or over the rocks ... tasty!
Your recipe is real close to ours only instead of the ground cinnamon we use the cinnamon sticks then remove before “bottling”.