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Victorio Juicer? I have been making blackberry wine for the last 6 years running, and all have been pretty good! I had a friend who boiled his berries, and lost most of the flavor in the process. I have never used a steam extraction or any method with heat because I'm afraid to ruin the fruit...

The starting SG was 1.1, and it when it went in the secondary, it was 1.04. The room temp is around 68F, and the wine is about 72F. The recipe was only plums, sugar, pectic enz. and nutrient. I have used this setup for several successful batches of wine this year, but this is the first batch of...

No, I'm not positive at all. I know very little about Brett. I am sure there were numerous wild yeasts on the fruit that I picked, so it could really be anything. From what I read, Brett. can give off the Band-aid/hospital smell, so I based my guess on that alone. Now that I think about it, I'm...

A few weeks ago, I painstakingly picked and destoned a pile of wild plums. I crushed them and added campden tabs (1/gal), pectic enzyme, and nutrient to the must. 24 hours later I added sugar and EC1118. Fermentation seemed to be proceeding normally, and the wine smelled fine after 5 days...

So, if anyone is interested, this actually turned out pretty good! After sitting in the secondary for two weeks, the fermentation started to slow, so I pulled some to check it out. The SG is down to 1.038, which is just below the SG of the must before adding any sugar, so the sweetness is...

Thanks guys! I appreciate the input. I also like my wine with much less alcohol content (usually). But this time I am actually going for HIGH alcohol content; mostly as and an experiment, partly because, well alcohol is the point right? Why else ferment the stuff in the first place? haha. I...

I guess this should have been posted under the "fruit wine" section... still figuring out the forum I guess. If a mod wants to move it, that would be fine by me.

Hi everyone! New guy here! I'm getting more deeply involved in winemaking (and brewing beer, but we won't mention that around here, haha) every day. I live in Oregon, the land of blackberries, so I try to make as much wine as I can pick as often as possible! Tasty stuff! This seems to be a...

Hi everyone! I'm new to the forum, but I admit I have lurked a time or two in the past ;) There's lots of good information to be had here! Anyway, I moved to Oregon a few years back, and I have been making some great wine from delicious wild blackberries. I like a good sweet berry desert wine...