- | Food & Drink >> Wine >> Making Wine
How to Make Blackberry Wine
If you've got a good source on blackberries, try your hand at making some wine.
Things You'll Need
- Campden Tablets 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
- Plastic Bucket
Instructions
-
Crush 4 lb. fruit into plastic buckets.
-
Add 1 crushed campden tablet, 1 tsp. pectic enzyme and 1 gal. water.
-
Mix thoroughly and let sit for 24 hours.
-
Add about 2 lbs. sugar to bring Brix up to 20 to 21 degrees F. (See "How to Monitor the Brix of Fermenting Wine Must," in the Related eHows section, for instructions.)
-
Add 1 tsp. yeast food. Mix thoroughly.
-
Rehydrate 1 packet of yeast in warm water, and let sit for 10 minutes before adding to juice.
-
Transfer juice to glass jugs. Fill two-thirds full.
-
Attach a fermentation lock.
-
When sediment settles, after about 5 to 6 days, rack, or siphon off the sediment from the clear wine, into glass jugs. Fill jugs completely. (See "How to Rack Wine" for details.)
-
Rack whenever sediment accumulates. You may need to rack three to four times.
-
Rack one more time after juice stops bubbling. Add 1 crushed campden tablet during last racking.
-
Let sit for three to four months until wine is clear.
-
Bottle. (See "How to Bottle Wine" for more.)
-
Bottle-age if needed.
Making Wine
- What is the chemical process that results in alcohol production winemaking and brewing beer?
- What substances are used to make milk?
- How do you make yourself like hard alcohol?
- A recipe calls for white wine vinegar but i have it - what can use?
- What gas all of these produce acid rain on a limestone statue candle burning dog panting and fermenting grapes to make wine?
- Where can you get wine yeast?
- Can you make alcohol from yak milk?
- How to Clear a Pectin Haze (9 Steps)
- What types of grapes are used to make wine?
- Is it expensive to make wine at home?
Making Wine
- Champagnes
- Collecting Wine
- Cooking with Wine
- Dessert Wine
- Food & Wine Pairing
- Making Wine
- Ordering Wine
- Port Wine
- Red Wines
- Selecting Wine
- Serving Wine
- Sparkling Wine
- Storing Wine
- White Wines
- Wine Basics
- Wine Cellars
- Wine Stains
- Wine Tasting


