It started as a recipe from Terry Gerrys book, p. 90, Sal's Blueberry wine...
it turned into 4.5 lbs of fresh blueberries from a friends farm, a nice mix of sweet and tart.
5.5 lbs of wildflower/white clover honey a mix of leftovers I had laying around.
9.5 pints of water, I started by doubling the recipe amount but I removed water to compensate for honey not thinking about how it would raise the OG... so I added some more after it was reading 1.1 before fruit...
So in the little bucket are the blueberries and filled with honey/water mixture up to 2 gallons and in another 1 gallon jug the rest of the honey/water.
both are cooling so I can take a reading and add pectic enzyme, tannin and some acid as well as campden tabs.
2 tsp nutrient
4 tsp acid blend
1/4 tsp tannin
in the no fruit jug i put...
1/8 tsp tannin
1 tsp nutrient
1/2 tsp acid blend
I will be topping off with the just honey and water mix with the option of adding more fruit in secondary we have 30 lbs of blueberries and a chance to get more, which is good because 15 lbs is eaten or bubbling away already after 2 days.
waiting for it all to cool so i can take a reading.
it turned into 4.5 lbs of fresh blueberries from a friends farm, a nice mix of sweet and tart.
5.5 lbs of wildflower/white clover honey a mix of leftovers I had laying around.
9.5 pints of water, I started by doubling the recipe amount but I removed water to compensate for honey not thinking about how it would raise the OG... so I added some more after it was reading 1.1 before fruit...
So in the little bucket are the blueberries and filled with honey/water mixture up to 2 gallons and in another 1 gallon jug the rest of the honey/water.
both are cooling so I can take a reading and add pectic enzyme, tannin and some acid as well as campden tabs.
2 tsp nutrient
4 tsp acid blend
1/4 tsp tannin
in the no fruit jug i put...
1/8 tsp tannin
1 tsp nutrient
1/2 tsp acid blend
I will be topping off with the just honey and water mix with the option of adding more fruit in secondary we have 30 lbs of blueberries and a chance to get more, which is good because 15 lbs is eaten or bubbling away already after 2 days.
waiting for it all to cool so i can take a reading.