BostonJoey
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Hello. I'm new to this. I've read up on it a good bit. Here's what I got going on I'm looking for some comments.
I bought a house last year and it has 2 huge fig trees. We are at the tail end of our first harvest.
I had canned alk the figs I wanted to and didn't want the rest to just go to waist si I started to try making wine.
I have 2 separate 5 gallon buckets full
First bucket I took about 3 gallons of figs and put them in a pressure cooker added about 3 cups of sugar. I let that boil for about an hour.
I dumped it in a 5 gallon bucket and filled rest of the way with boiling water. Cooled some and added yeast and an ounce of vodka. Topped the bucket and cut a small square out the top of it and covered with medical tape. It's bubbling.
2nd bucket. It's been raining a good bit so I went out and got another 5 gallon bucket filled with figs. They were pretty heavy with water. And I was felling pretty lazy from the ladder work getting the figs. So I went to bed doing nothing with the figs. By the next day figs have settled some and was almost completely filled with liquid and was fermenting . So I covered the bucket as was with tinfoil it's now bubbling like a soda. Top layer of figs is kinda gross. but it looks decent under top layer.
I'm asking for s0me advice because I haven't seen much abiut making a wine type beverage from figs. Any responses / advice is welcome.
I bought a house last year and it has 2 huge fig trees. We are at the tail end of our first harvest.
I had canned alk the figs I wanted to and didn't want the rest to just go to waist si I started to try making wine.
I have 2 separate 5 gallon buckets full
First bucket I took about 3 gallons of figs and put them in a pressure cooker added about 3 cups of sugar. I let that boil for about an hour.
I dumped it in a 5 gallon bucket and filled rest of the way with boiling water. Cooled some and added yeast and an ounce of vodka. Topped the bucket and cut a small square out the top of it and covered with medical tape. It's bubbling.
2nd bucket. It's been raining a good bit so I went out and got another 5 gallon bucket filled with figs. They were pretty heavy with water. And I was felling pretty lazy from the ladder work getting the figs. So I went to bed doing nothing with the figs. By the next day figs have settled some and was almost completely filled with liquid and was fermenting . So I covered the bucket as was with tinfoil it's now bubbling like a soda. Top layer of figs is kinda gross. but it looks decent under top layer.
I'm asking for s0me advice because I haven't seen much abiut making a wine type beverage from figs. Any responses / advice is welcome.
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