Yeast recommendation for Elderberry

[Hillbilly Bill]

Originally Posted by BobF

I chose K1-V1116 for my first batch. It's still in the secondary, but the entire upper floor of my house smelled like heaven during the primary ferment!!

This stuff tasted *good* when I sampled it while racking out of the primary.

Bob, I used Lalvin K1-V1116 on my last batch of apple wine... worked great. Another good choice would be Red Star Cotes des Blanc.

[BobF]

Originally Posted by Hillbilly Bill

Bob, I used Lalvin K1-V1116 on my last batch of apple wine... worked great. Another good choice would be Red Star Cotes des Blanc.

Cotes de blanc and K1 are both 'new' yeasts I've been experimenting with. cbd is what I used for my last strawberry that's also in secondary.

I like it too!

[Wade E]

I us Cotes des Blanc on almost all my fruit wines but find that Pasteur Red gets better color extraction and etter bouquet in reds \where as the cotes does a better job in the whites and lighter reds.

[BobF]

Originally Posted by arcticsid

Bob, as per my other post,( the steam juicer PING) I didn't realize you had made it before. This my first try at EB and would appreciate any input you have, your recipe, procedure etc.

Troy

Troy - looks like I used the basic recipe on crackedcork's site.

Process-wise, I was given the berries frozen (10#), without having been destemmed first. I spent a lot of time picking out stems and green berries.

Once ready, I put the berries in a bag inside the primary and poured about 2 gallons of boiling water over them. I mashed them up with a potato masher.

From there, I continued with the same basic process used for just about any wine.

The initial SG was 1013. I adjusted to 1096.
Initial acid was ~.2. I adjusted to .6 with acid blend.
Yeast = K1-V1116, pitched as a starter


Good Luck!