Dees Blackberry Wine
From capedread 15 years ago
- 3 minutes to make
- Serves 6
The colour of this wine is sure to please, red as a sunset................ you can use any wheat or barley, buckwheat is what I had to hand lol NOTE: when picking berries make sure they are the best fruits not too ripe discard any that look squishy or off one dodgey fruit can ruin the whole batch.
Ingredients
- 3-4 lb fruit shopping list
- 1.250g sugar = 3 lbs (1kg = dry 1kg 250g = semi sweet) shopping list
- water to make up a gallon shopping list
- pectic enzyme shopping list
- citric acid shopping list
- campden tablet crushed shopping list
- 1/4 lb sultanas - chopped shopping list
- 200g buck wheat = 4oz shopping list
- yeast enzyme shopping list
- yeast shopping list
How to make it
- Clean fruit and bring to the boil in just enough water to cover
- add wheat and sugar
- pour into fermenting vat and add enough boiling water to make up a gallon
- add crushed campden tablet
- 1 tsp citric acid
- stir
- cover and place in a warm place overnight
- next day take sg reading
- add yeast enzyme
- stir well
- sprinkle over a teaspoon of yeast, seal and let stand overnight
- stir daily for 3-4 days
- strain into demijohn and seal
- wrack 3 times after every 30 days or so, take sg reading on last wracking and again before bottling
- once settled and has stopped fermenting bottle and keep for another 9 months at least
- one year from start of wine +-
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Reviewed by 4 people-
Love blackberry wine! Sounds like a bit of work, but well worth it!
juels
in Clayton loved it
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It looks like a KICK ASS recipe, I'll drink to this one! Bottoms Up my dear! CHEERS to the Queen.
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