Cracked Cork
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Thanks to NorthernWinos suggestions on here we decided last year in October to do a 100% steamed elderberry wine, 5 gallons, 50 lb of elderberries. We used K1V-116 and started at 1.090 and fed the yeast a little bit a few times. This weekend it was nice and clear and we bottled. From reading about how long 100% elderberry would take to get drinkable we were sure it would be years before we could touch this. But, we also used the steamer to make jelly this summer, 100% elderberry juice jelly was fantastic so we hoped our bulk aging wine would be also. It was, smooth and packed with fruity tastes and balanced in tannins instead of being overwhelmingly tannic if we would have do it the old way on the berries. And we also did a blackberry elderberry 100% juice in the steamer and it was one of the best wines we have made.
Thanks NW
Crackedcork
Thanks NW
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