Hello all!
First I would like to thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read my post. As I am a new wine maker and new member. I'm sure there are a bunch of post over this topic as well, it will be alot easier to reference in my own thread though.
Last year I found blackberries and I mean tons by tons of wild blackberries. Due to my odd working hours I was unable to pick any. Well this year so far I have 20 pounds. I found a recipe for 6 gallons that Tom posted. I want a semi sweet wine but i'm curious
What makes it dry, What makes it sweeter? (naturally without adding sugar. or is it possible)
What does adding oak do? Or is it not suggested with blackberries
What exactly is a "F pac" and will it drastically change the flavor?
Being my first wild fruit wine and the hasstle of picking 30+ pounds of wild, throny, chigger infested Kansas blackberries I keep freaking out I'm going to loose the fruit in primary due to my work hours on some days. (working on wind turbines you could have an 8 or 18 hr day.) What exactly makes the fruit ??turn?? or go bad???
Thanks everyone for the help
Scott
First I would like to thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read my post. As I am a new wine maker and new member. I'm sure there are a bunch of post over this topic as well, it will be alot easier to reference in my own thread though.
Last year I found blackberries and I mean tons by tons of wild blackberries. Due to my odd working hours I was unable to pick any. Well this year so far I have 20 pounds. I found a recipe for 6 gallons that Tom posted. I want a semi sweet wine but i'm curious
What makes it dry, What makes it sweeter? (naturally without adding sugar. or is it possible)
What does adding oak do? Or is it not suggested with blackberries
What exactly is a "F pac" and will it drastically change the flavor?
Being my first wild fruit wine and the hasstle of picking 30+ pounds of wild, throny, chigger infested Kansas blackberries I keep freaking out I'm going to loose the fruit in primary due to my work hours on some days. (working on wind turbines you could have an 8 or 18 hr day.) What exactly makes the fruit ??turn?? or go bad???
Thanks everyone for the help
Scott