Jdrbucks
New Member
I have been making homebrew beer for about three years and decided to make my first batch of homemade wine. Found a recipe online for a 5 gallon blueberry batch that seemed pretty simple. Followed the recipe as it said and I have a pretty bad taste. I gave it one month primary fermenter, one month secondary fermenter. It has been about three months since I bottled it and I decided to try it today. Taste like straight rubbing alcohol or something similar. Kind of like the ethanol taste from the unfinished batch of moonshine. Any suggestions or pointers would be welcome. It was my first time so I'm sure I screwed something up. I did however forget to take hydrometer reading before fermenting. Did take one towards the end and it measured at .940. The recipe I followed called for 15 pounds of blueberries and 10 pounds of sugar. I did add approximately 5 pounds of sugar throughout fermenting because I read somewhere that would prevent it from being too dry of a wine. Just trying to figure out if there's anyway to save the 5 gallons of already bottled wine.