Today we are making Elderberry wine, we had loads of success earlier in the year with elderflower and lemon cordial so we were watching and waiting for the elderberries to be ready, when they were we picked like mad as we have quite a few things brewing and popping away and a few more planed through the month so needed to get the elderberries picked and processed to to maximise our time and fermenting buckets.
We managed to gather 6kg of berries and had the very long task of picking them all off the stalks, so we stuck a good long movie on cracked open a bottle of wine we had made from the previous year and settled into picking. it took a few hours and we were so relieved when we had finished.
Next we gave them a good mash with the potatoe masher and added 4 liters of boiling water and let it steep for 24 hour. the next day Ali added 1.5kg of sugar used his hydrometer to see how boozy it would be and added 1tsp of yeast for every gallon of liquid and gave it a good stir the put it all in the fermenting bucket to pop away for a week.
Later we are planning to strained to get rid of any little bits and decanted into demijohns and leave for a few weeks to finish before bottling up. I cant wait for this brew to finish as it smells really fruity and full.
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