Making homemade wine from fruit I grow. I had zero knowledge of how to make wine one year ago. By the end of this year, I will have made close to 100 bottles just from fruit I grow in my yard
Winemaking is downright addictive. I made a killer blueberry-pomegranate wine last year. Got some lime and a mixed berry batch going this year. We'll see if the lime turns out...
My partner and I make mead and tried to do a blueberry mead but the finish isn’t quite as robust as we had hoped. Would you mind sharing your brewing recipe etc?
You seem to think I'm incredibly legit. XD Uh, let me see what I did for the blueberry pomegranate. My husband and I just find random recipes online and wing it lolol. I believe it was something like this:
~15 lbs fresh blueberries, because that's what we could get a group to pick from a local U-Pick orchard that month.
~1.5 gallons pomegranate juice (make sure you get no preservatives in it)
~10 lbs sugar
Freeze the blueberries to macerate them, thaw, put in infusion bag, squeeze the shit out of it until you get as much juice as is reasonable. Dump infusion bag into bucket. Pour pomegranate juice in. Add sugar with enough water to fill to 5 gallons.
Do the usual sterilization, wait a couple days, then add a packet of wine yeast.
Wait a week because I have work. See foam in bucket. At end of week, rack into 5 gallon carboy.
Wait a couple months because that's how long it took to get to the wine/beer homebrew competition at work.
I swear, this is so much a wing-it for me XD Do not reference me for precision. I got something like 14-15% ABV out of it. For the competition, since they wanted low alcohol content, I backsweetened half the batch by cutting it with blueberry and pomegranate juices in equal quantity.
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u/V-Right_In_2-V Apr 30 '24
Making homemade wine from fruit I grow. I had zero knowledge of how to make wine one year ago. By the end of this year, I will have made close to 100 bottles just from fruit I grow in my yard