Blackberries.
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You can do a gallon of wine with 3lb of berries, a few ounces of raisins, a kilo or so of sugar, yeast, nutrient.
You could do straight blackberry (not even close to ripe here) but a mix of berries/currants works better - get a good chunk of raspberry in, and at least a few ounces of blackcurrants helps a lot.
And of course, bramble rum. Fill a big jar with blackberries and somewhere between 4 and 8 oz of sugar, fill with white rum, seal and leave until christmas.
You could do straight blackberry (not even close to ripe here) but a mix of berries/currants works better - get a good chunk of raspberry in, and at least a few ounces of blackcurrants helps a lot.
And of course, bramble rum. Fill a big jar with blackberries and somewhere between 4 and 8 oz of sugar, fill with white rum, seal and leave until christmas.
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Watch out when you use raisins...soak & wash them in hot water for 20mins...they may be treated with sulphites...and we know what that does to your yeast. Just look at the panel on the bag...I got some Sat & there it was plain to see,
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Picked a handful up here yesterday (w yorks). Reckon there will be a huge amount this time next week. Like Kinleycat I'm after a tried and tested recipe for a wine please... gunna freeze some too to put with elderberry later in the year
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I came across this t'other day, though I'm damned if I can remember where now! Don't know if it helps anyone.
Blackberry Wine Recipe
Ingredients:
2½ lb blackberries
½ lb sultanas
Campden tablets
2 lb sugar
Wine yeast
Nutrient
Water
Method:
Strip and rinse the blackberries..
Put into a fermenting bin and crush. Chop the sultanas and add to the bin.
Pour on 4 pints of water. Add 1 Campden tablet, crushed and dissolved in a little warm water.
Boil all of the sugar in 3 pints of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, mix into the pulp.
Add the yeast and nutrient and cover and allow to ferment for a week, stirring daily.
Strain and press and return to a clean fermenting bin.
Cover again and leave for 3 or 4 days.
Pour carefully into a gallon jar, leaving as much deposit behind as possible.
Fill up the jar with cooled, boiled water to where the neck begins.
Fit a fermentation lock and leave until fermentation has finished.
Rack, as necessary, adding a Campden tablet after the first racking.
Syphon into bottles.
Blackberry Wine Recipe
Ingredients:
2½ lb blackberries
½ lb sultanas
Campden tablets
2 lb sugar
Wine yeast
Nutrient
Water
Method:
Strip and rinse the blackberries..
Put into a fermenting bin and crush. Chop the sultanas and add to the bin.
Pour on 4 pints of water. Add 1 Campden tablet, crushed and dissolved in a little warm water.
Boil all of the sugar in 3 pints of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, mix into the pulp.
Add the yeast and nutrient and cover and allow to ferment for a week, stirring daily.
Strain and press and return to a clean fermenting bin.
Cover again and leave for 3 or 4 days.
Pour carefully into a gallon jar, leaving as much deposit behind as possible.
Fill up the jar with cooled, boiled water to where the neck begins.
Fit a fermentation lock and leave until fermentation has finished.
Rack, as necessary, adding a Campden tablet after the first racking.
Syphon into bottles.
started a blackberry wine a couple days ago with a this years pick. followed my recipe from last years book.
2lb of blackberries
1 1/2lb of raspberries (tesco bought)
2l welches (WGJ)
600g sugar
1tspn pectolase
1tspn glycerine
juice of a lemon
cuppa tea (strong 2 bags)
young's super wine yeast
yeast nutrient
1. put the berries into a pan and add some of the (WGJ) and sprinkle with a little sugar. heat and simmer for 10 mins and get happy with patato masher. add 1tspn pectolase and mix well cover and leave to cool. along side heat up 300ml of water in a pan and dissolve the sugar. leave to cool with the berries.
2. sieve berries into dj through funnel making sure you get as much juice as possible. and add the rest of the grape juice along with the tea and glycerine. also add the sugar water. top up with water to bottom of the neck. cover with your washed hands and give a good shake. (make sure you leave headspace its goes off like a rocked with the crushed berries)
3. make up the yeast starter with lukewarm kettle water, nutrient and a tbspn of sugar and a heaped tspn of youngs yeast once started add to the dj, bung and airlock.
4. put dj in a tray. (best to do before the great escape of the airlock and not after a pint of wine is on the kitchen side
) and watch the lava lamp in effect.
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2lb of blackberries
1 1/2lb of raspberries (tesco bought)
2l welches (WGJ)
600g sugar
1tspn pectolase
1tspn glycerine
juice of a lemon
cuppa tea (strong 2 bags)
young's super wine yeast
yeast nutrient
1. put the berries into a pan and add some of the (WGJ) and sprinkle with a little sugar. heat and simmer for 10 mins and get happy with patato masher. add 1tspn pectolase and mix well cover and leave to cool. along side heat up 300ml of water in a pan and dissolve the sugar. leave to cool with the berries.
2. sieve berries into dj through funnel making sure you get as much juice as possible. and add the rest of the grape juice along with the tea and glycerine. also add the sugar water. top up with water to bottom of the neck. cover with your washed hands and give a good shake. (make sure you leave headspace its goes off like a rocked with the crushed berries)
3. make up the yeast starter with lukewarm kettle water, nutrient and a tbspn of sugar and a heaped tspn of youngs yeast once started add to the dj, bung and airlock.
4. put dj in a tray. (best to do before the great escape of the airlock and not after a pint of wine is on the kitchen side
) and watch the lava lamp in effect.:
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Racked 2 demi's today. One has sultanas in the mix, the other just a straight blackberry. Reckon I haven't overloaded the sugar with these so high hopes with the little taste i encountered upon siphoning 
Is this best left 12 months or as a lighter fruit could it be sampled (drank) earlier?
Is this best left 12 months or as a lighter fruit could it be sampled (drank) earlier?
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