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What is the method of taking the flowers off I would like to try to make elder flower wine?

I mad the dried and loved it. Now I just bottled the blk elderberry dessert wine it is fabulous cannot wait till it sits a year.WVmountaineerjack lov your recipies!

I hope this,year it blooms away though.

How many bushes do you guys have i have one about three years no fruit yet

WOTM? Interested in what your making

I have never made it 1st time but several recipes saw to steep it so,yes I probably will. I will,try each and see if,they taste,different.

Hi i froze the plucked,heads in freezer. I have starting pulling. They seem to be turning brown. Wonder if,they,will,be okay. Washed them 1st ill,try some without washing.

I have a gal cherry mead bulk,aging I may take half of it and add choc I bought my bars at a pharmacy in candy isle. There are a lot of different types of expensive dark choc.

Made the elderberry wine with dried elderberries last April. Bottled this week. Very good I Oaked it too. Drank the remainder that,couldn't be bottled. Yum.

You can top off with more mead or wine. I use water if it isn't very much. If I don't want any change to the flavor you can go to the dollar store and buy marbles add them to the mead.

I don't use the bottled tannin I brew up some tea and use a cup of it. Brew tea then drink make a,second cup with same tea bag that will have less or no caffeine and mostly tannins. I made one with sun tea instead of water was very good.

No I would not thank you

OK thanks I'm going out again this week. See if I can get more. So should I pitch the ones that did not sink. I read a lot saying unripe berries are poison or am I being too paranoid. Thank you. I am having fun doing this a lot of work though.

I love you site. This,is the 1st year for me to pick wild elderberries interesting along the same close areas I found different berries one was tiny round berries not much left of them tells me the best. Another slightly oval a bit larger a lot on it another a mile away round again and bigger...

Willie yes i want to do 5 gal batch. My thought was will it work after i just made 3 gal of wine with the yeast now i am using the slurry will it be able to ferment that much that would be 3 plus the 5 gal which is more than what the packet says it can do up to 6 gal. I dont want the yeast to...