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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2r-0WMWaJ4 We picked some elders this weekend and used Richs Knock the berries in the bucket and Lucs washing the picked berries with cold water to float out the junk and got 10 pounds of very nice berries in about 30 minutes, including trying to film the...

I want to add some bouquet to our elderberry wines made from the berries. Our bushes are about to flower soon. 1. Would it be best to pick the flowers, steep them, add some sugar and strain and freeze the syrup, adding it at bottling time? 2. Would it be better to just freeze the flowers and...

We started this in October 2008 and bottled it this weekend, it was already good, I cant wait to see what a little bottle aging will do for this wine. 6 gallons Yeast K1V-116 40 pounds of elderberries steam juiced, then another 10 pounds steamed 1 gallon Clover honey dissolved in hot steamed...

Just watched Bottle Shock from pay per view, a funny movie about the US vs French wines, it would be a good watch after you are stuffed with Christmas pudding:) Crackedcork

For some strange reason I have an irresistable impulse to make a deep dark port style wine from Welches Concord concentrate. I dont know what the SG of the concentrate is but I was thinking of having all of the sugar come from the concentrate. Maybe toss in some elderberries for added depth of...

Where we live we have very hard water. So we clean our carboys and bottles with Sal Soda and rinse everything well with hot water. Then we get big water spots. So then we fill the carboy up with cool water and add DISTILLED white vinegar and let it soak a little while. We also put some in a...

Do any of you guys that steam juice your fruit add back some tannins that are lost due to not fermenting on the skins? Crackedcork

I know most people call these ports but its really going to be a 5 gallons of high alcohol desert wine without an Everclear boost. 30 pounds of blackberry steam juiced 5 pounds of elderberries steam juiced 20 ounces of dried elderberries Black Cherry Concentrate Red Grape Concentrate for...

We steam juiced 35 pounds of black currants to yield 3 gallons of must. Using the NaOH test for acid, it had a TA of 2.03%. I diluted it up to 5 gallons and now its at 1.58%. Its pretty tart. I used 71B-1112 yeast because its supposed to eat up a little acid but probably wont matter much with...

We got a gallon of local honey and decided to make an elderberry melomel. I steam juiced about 40 pounds of elderberries and dissolved the honey in the hot juice. We didnt want to boil the honey and drive off its taste. We also added some sugar, fermaid and acid blend and pectinase just to be...

Thanks to NorthernWinos suggestions on here we decided last year in October to do a 100% steamed elderberry wine, 5 gallons, 50 lb of elderberries. We used K1V-116 and started at 1.090 and fed the yeast a little bit a few times. This weekend it was nice and clear and we bottled. From reading...

We are growing different varieties of raspberries and wanted to share and compare with others. We are in zone 6 and I have drip irrigation on all the berries. This is the second season for all varieties. First the reds, we have Autumn Bliss, Kiwigold from Jund and Heritage from Indianna...

For those of you who were interested here is a video of boiling stones vs marbles for degassing. The stones were about 100X better than the marbles and you can easily see it in this video on yourtube. Maybe we can get George to stock boiling stones now :) Crackedcork...

I have lots of blackberries and elderberries left and want to make a port from them. Anyone else mixed these together for a port? Crackecork

My wife got a Mehu steamer and has been letting me use it for making wine. I steamed 50 lb of elderberries and got 5 gallons of juice. Added the sugar to the hot juice, let it cool and added acid blend and pectinase and then K1-V116. We have never done a steamed juice wine or 100% elderberry...

OK, lets see if I can get something going on this one. Has anyone tried or thought about putting oak in your steamer while you are making juice? Crackedcork

My wife is getting one of those steamer juicers for jelly and I thought it would be fun to try it out on elderberries. Has anyone made steamed juice from elderberries yet? Crackedcork

I have experimented with boiling stones dropped into the carboy to help in degassing. THEY WORKED. They reduced the time needed to degass my carboy and helped drive the gass of at lower pressures. The ones I tried were Tamer Tabs, non reactive and food safe. They did not cause a valcano like the...

This post is especially for Ramona in WV and anyone else that has had or heard of a ramp, cousin to the wild garlic and onion that grows in WV and also has a festival of the ramp in WV. Kirkwood winery makes and sells a ramp wine, tried some today at a winetasting, lets say it interesting. Took...

I tried to get Wineyard entered into Wikidictionary, the snobs didnt like it one bit! Maybe if a coupld of people told the snots at Wikidictionary that they had a Wineyard it would work. Crackedcork