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Wine Making - Blackberry & Elderberry Wine Recipe

Recipe for Blackberry & Elderberry Wine. Makes 1 gallon of a "Burgundy" style wine.

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Blackberry & Elderberry Wine Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 2 lb blackberries
  • 1 lb elderberries
  • 2 ripe bananas
  • Campden tablets
  • 3 lb sugar
  • Wine yeast
  • Nutrient
  • Water

Method:

  1. Strip the elderberries from the stalks and wash well. Strip and rinse the blackberries.
  2. Put into a fermenting bin and crush. Pour on 4 pints of water. Add 1 campden tablet, crushed and dissolved in a little warm water.
  3. Boil half of the sugar in 2 pints of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, mix into the pulp. Peel and squash the bananas and add to the pulp.
  4. Add the yeast and nutrient and cover and allow to ferment for a week, stirring daily.
  5. Strain and press and return to a clean fermenting bin.
  6. Boil the rest of the sugar in 1 pint of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, add to the rest.
  7. Cover again and leave for 3 or 4 days.
  8. Pour carefully into a gallon jar, leaving as much deposit behind as possible.
  9. Fill up the jar with cooled, boiled water to where the neck begins.
  10. Fit a fementation lock and leave until fermentation has finished.
  11. Rack, as necessary, adding 1 Campden tablet after the first racking.
  12. Syphon into bottles.

 

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