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    Grocery store wine

    I'd like to make an update to the blueberry wine. The "blueberry cider" actually turned out really well. I really like it. I bottled them with some sugar so that the champagne yeast still active could carbonate, then chilled it, and it sure worked, it's fizzy and crisp and very nice, about 7%...
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    Grocery store wine

    huh... I've never heard of something like this ever referred to as something other than a fruit cider, that's just the vernacular I've lived with, anything that's fizzy and low ABV is a cider. But yeah I ended up making one gallon of cider and 4 gallons of wine, the gravity for the cider was...
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    Grocery store wine

    That doesn't sound like such a bad idea, why don't you try making prickly pear wine?
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    Grocery store wine

    You're right, the pure blueberry juice is only ~1.050 gravity. Though it's so so thick, I wonder what all that viscosity is if not for sugar? Pectin? ...why not bluebery cider though? I think might be able to get a nice ~6% ABV batch of that with some EC-1118 yeast I have on hand
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    Grocery store wine

    so i got 40 lb of blueberries which is apparently too much for just 5 gallons. i was thinking in terms of grapes. oops. I'm using around 27 lbs of them for this ~6 gallon batch, i'll try to get as much juice as possible, not add any additional sugar, and maybe my wine will be more blueberry than...
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    Grocery store wine

    Yeah I only ever see mangos in grocery stores during the summer months, couldn't find any today. I've decided on blueberry wine right now because the store ran out of raspberries. Late summer I might try mangoes too.
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    Grocery store wine

    wine from GRAPES??
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    Grocery store wine

    Money is of no object for this project, honestly the more expensive it is the better. Your reminder that raspberries are expensive may make me consider them more than blueberries now. Does red raspberry really make a good wine though? I struggle to imagine how it would taste. My intuition with...
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    Grocery store wine

    Enlightening! Do you have anything to say on if fresh blueberries vs frozen blueberries makes a difference? Would frozen blueberries mash better? And what yeast do you typically use?
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    Grocery store wine

    Can't be juices, needs to be fruit. What makes blueberry wine so easy?
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    Grocery store wine

    I want to make a wine with fruits that I can buy in a grocery store. Due to some unique circumstances, I've come across a sum of money that must be spent on fruits, and this is how I want to use it. Which fruit is the easiest to make wine from? Which is the most rewarding? Seems to me like...
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    Mixed grape wine?

    I'd like to make an update on this post. It'd been a while. The final gravity was 1.030, (Original was 1.132), so about 15% as planned. The color is very pleasant, sort of a strawberry red. Very full body, very very sweet, has more sugar per volume than a can of coke. A bit tangy too. Honestly...
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    Banana Wine- That's 10 Wines In The Last 10 Days.

    Why organic? Isn't that just a scam to those of us who are fine with GMOs? Is it because pesticides might interfere with yeasts?
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    Yew Wine

    Speak for yourself, I only make wine out of what I can forge, and at this time of year nothing else edible is blooming, and don't want to fork up money for large amounts of fruit or honey; I also don't have kids, i wouldn't be giving it away, and I don't do bulk projects beyond 5 gallons, at...
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    What's for Dinner?

    Earlier this week I bought a 5-pound flounder and some shrimp and it's been feeding me and my wife for a few days. I got tired of the taste so I turned it into soup with some dashi stock. idk if it's still good but i'm still going to finish it
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    Yew Wine

    Hmm, I don't think that'd really work. Maybe lightly pressing them just to make the seed extraction easier, but they're very round and thin around the seed so just pressing them wouldn't get much juice. Based on the tastes, I can only imagine the reward for going for this wine would be amazing...
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    Yew Wine

    I just realized that I live next to two yew shrubs. The entire bush except for the fleshy pseudo-fruits are deadly poisonous, including the seed inside of the berry, but the berry itself is edible and is quite sweet, tastes like figs, to me. I imagine making wine from this would be quite...
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    Wine From Koyusa Dogwood.

    @Rice_Guy What color did yours turn out? Ordering some labels right now for my rosé, wanna get some for this in the same order, but I have no idea what color the wine will be
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    Making wine out of poisonous berries?

    .... why do you grow it if it's so poisonous? I know that castor oil can be used medicinally for constipation, do you extract the oil from it? Or do you just keep it around because it's pretty? Or are you actually an aspiring assassin..... hmmmm
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    Making wine out of poisonous berries?

    Could you link that article or at least point me in the right direction to find it? that sounds particularly interesting to me
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