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Homemade
Blackberry Wine
Even if you have never tried it before, the
process of making homemade blackberry
wine does not have to be
difficult.
You just have to make sure that you are
educated and aware on the process involved here
so that you know how to get started and feel
comfortable with the process before trying it
out for yourself.
The Essential Materials and
Ingredients
If you are
interested in making
homemade blackberry
wine, you are first going to have to
get the essential materials and ingredients.
This includes campden tables for winemaking,
fermentation locks, grape crushers, pectic
enzyme for winemaking, hydrometer and testing
jar, siphon hoses, wine yeast and yeast
nutrients, glass gallon jugs or barrels, and a
plastic bucket.
The next
step in the process of making homemade
blackberry wine involves crushing about four
pounds of fruit into the plastic bucket. You
then want to add one crushed campden tablet,
one teaspoon pectic enzyme, and one gallon of
water. Mix this together thoroughly and then
let sit for about 24 hours.
Now you
want to add about two pounds of sugar to the
mixture, brix up to 20 to 21 degrees F, and add
one teaspoon of yeast food. Mix thoroughly
again, and rehydrate one packet of yeast in
warm water and let sit for about ten minutes
before adding to juice. Now you want to
transfer the juice into glass jugs, filling
until they are each about two-thirds full.
Attach a fermentation lock to each glass jug,
and when sediment settles, which is usually
after about a week’s time, you want to rack or
siphon off the sediment from the clear wine
into glass jugs, filling the jugs
completely.
Rack
whenever the sediment accumulates and you may
even need to rack as many as four times. You
want to let sit for about three or four months
until the wine is clear and ready to bottle,
and then bottle as desired.
Making
homemade
blackberry wine is
fun and enjoyable and best of all you can make
some fabulous homemade wine to give out to your
family and friends or to keep for yourself.
There are many other types of wine that you can
make as well and as you continue to make wine
and get more familiar with the process you will
find it easier and more enjoyable every time.
You do have to have patience with winemaking,
especially when it comes to the aging process,
but it will be more than worth it
in the end.
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