kellymariemcewan

Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art

Elderberry Wine home brewing

Somerset foraging

Elder berry wine brewing

Am especially pleased with the elderberry wine I’ve recently bottled. Now I need to let it sit for the next year until I can drink it.

This was another wine made from a recipe I read in Booze by John Wright.

Forking the elderberries off the umbels is tiresome, to say the least. The smell of this wine as I was bottling it is very hopeful though. So hopeful, I went out and picked and froze a couple of baskets of elderberries, to continue brewing into winter.

A simple to make red wine.

Elderberry washing foraged fruit Somerset
Wash the berries
Elder berries washed forked collander
Fork off the berries from the umbels
Elderberry ferment mix
Hot water to kill the bugs
Crushing elderberrys pips must fermenting
Crush the berry flesh (but not the pips!)
Elder berry home brew DIY
Add yeast, aerate and leave to begin fermenting
Elderberry wine DIY in progress
Day One fermenting and aeration
Elderberry wine ferment complete siphoning
Day Two fermenting and aeration
Fermenting elderberry wine
Fermenting elderberry wine
Fermenting elderberries bucket
Day Three fermenting and aeration, not changed greatly
Fermenting elderberries
Day Four fermenting and aeration
Fermenting at home elderberries yeast fizzing
Day Five fermenting and aeration
Dated elder berry fermenting bucket
Good record keeping is important
Demijohn rack siphoning elderberry wine
Leave to sit in first rack to complete ferment (a week?) before transferring with second rack to clarify

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Rosehip Wine

Elderflower Cordial

 

 

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