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You can t help but be reminded of the journey you took from berry picking to wine drinking and it will make all of the effort the spills and the torturous. Allow to sit for an hour or so if you d like.
That d give you a good approximation without having to get specialized ingredients.
Homemade blueberry wine recipe. For a better option using just stuff you might have at home also add 1 cup strongly brewed black tea for tannin 1 4 cup lemon juice for acid and about 1 8 cup raisins for yeast nutrient. That d give you a good approximation without having to get specialized ingredients. But for me the best way to enjoy a glass of homemade blueberry wine is in the great outdoors on a picnic blanket along with a punnet of late season blueberries fresh from the bush.
You can t help but be reminded of the journey you took from berry picking to wine drinking and it will make all of the effort the spills and the torturous. Rinse and pick through blueberries removing any that are moldy etc. Place in a large pot along with the sugar.
Using a potato masher or very clean hands stir and mash blueberries. Allow to sit for an hour or so if you d like. Add water stir well.
Blueberry wine recipe method dissolve the sugar and half the water together in a pan by bringing to the boil. Ensure all of the sugar is fully dissolved and then turn off the heat. Whilst heating the sugar and water put the blueberries in a straining bag in the bottom of the fermenting bucket.
12 hours now mix the tannin citric acid and the wine nutrient thoroughly and add it to the blueberry mixture you just perfectly made. Crush the campden tablet and add to the mix after 12 hours of cooling the mixture. Enzyme kinetics after 12 hours of stay add a pectic enzyme let the mixture stay for 24 hours.
This little packets of dry wine yeast has enough live yeast cells to produce 5 gallons of wine. To use empty the packet into 1 4 cup of warm water stir until it s dissolved and let it set for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes mix the yeast into your batch and snap the lid with the airlock back on the primary fermenter.
Ed s blueberry wine recipe makes 5 gallons 13 lbs. Blueberries lightly crushed 11 lbs. Cane sugar table sugar.
Homemade blueberry wine recipe for 5 6 gallons of finished blueberry wine 12 24 lbs of blueberries i tend to go on the lower side between 10 and 12 lbs of sugar i go a little heavy with the sugar 1 tablespoon pectic emzyme. 2 tablespoons yeast nutrient. 1 teaspoon yeast energizer optional teaspoon tannin.
Use a mesh bag to extract the juice from the blueberries in the must. Rack the remaining juice to a carboy leaving the sediment lees behind. If possible move the wine to a cooler place like a basement to clear.
Rack the wine at least two more times before even thinking about bottling it. Freeze the berries then cold soak for 5 days in fridge at least with one campden and 1 5 litres of water. 2 boil the remaining water and then leave to cool.
Add then crush the berries and the pomegranate juice and leave to get to room temperature. 3 add lemon juice tea sugar to 1 09sg then the yeast and nutrient.