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Stressbaby, i have never made an elderberry wine before, ( actually just started a 5g batch tonight based a recipe from Jack Kellers site) thats probably why i picked so many to begin with...but i am considering a "seconds" batch with the pulp. All of the citrus was an impulse buy on a trip...

Give or take a pound or two....went on picking binge once i found em' and didnt realize how many i had until i got home. I just couldn't let the birds and bears get ALL of them.

Thanks Dawg! If my wife hacks my account and reads this, I am sure she will gladly send you my "horders freezer" as she calls it. I have elderberries thawing for a 5g batch. But i might just throw together the remaining ingredients as you stated. Would the plum and elderberries drown out any...

Sooooo, i have a bunch of misc fruit in the freezer, some of it i have plans for, but there is a couple of fruits i dont have enough of to make a batch of wine with. I prefer 5g or 3g batches. I was hopeing to get some input on which of my fruit to use in combo to make a 5 or 3 gallon batch...

I started a grapefruit wine last spring...still bulk aging it though. It is still a little sour. I have read in some other threads that one should maybe use a little less zest than called for in the primary fermentation stage. My grapefruit shows promise but I think it just needs to age on a...

I get my bottles from a venue that does large parties. They typically serve the same wines so bottle sorting is minimal...plus they almost always put the empties back in the cases they came in. I would guess that being in the Chicago area that large party venues would not be hard to find...

Thanks for the advice! I did use a Jack Keller recipe, my finished S.G. was 0.993, so it was a pretty dry wine. I bottled it in February and have drank a few bottles. I am planning on starting another batch in the next week or so and was hoping for some feedback/insight on the subject. I will...

Sooooo..... im new to winemaking! I tried my hand at a cherry wine last summer and i think that it turned out to be a good wine. But, it doesnt have a strong finish. If i had to guess i where i went wrong i would say perhaps i didnt use enough cherries? For a 5 gallon batch i used roughly 23...