Tasty Homemade Blackberry Wine

How to make blackberry wine?

I am making wine for a while now and love to try new recipes and make new flavours!! This time I have make blackberry wine.

I do not really like blackberry itself but the wine made from it is absolutely great! The recipes are quite easy but if You are a beginner You can always use the beginner yeast set. It makes the wine making MUCH MORE easier.

You can find all the other recipes I have tried at: www.moonshiners.club

Ingredients:
Blackberries – 4.4 lb / 2 kg

Water – 0.25 gal / 1 liter

Sugar – 2.2 lb / 1 kg

Unwashed raisins – 1.8 oz / 50 gr (Alternatively use wine yeast)

Crush the blackberries till smooth, and then put the squash into a non-metal container with a wide bottleneck.

Add raisins, water, and 14 oz / 400 gr of sugar, stir it up.

Leave the container in a dark place with a room temperature, tie up the bottleneck with gauze and leave it for 3-4 days. Once a day stir the must with clear hands or with a wooden spoon, knocking down “the hat” from pulp on the surface.

If you see the signs of fermentation (sour smell, foaming and hissing), filter the juice through gauze, then pour it into a fermentation container (fill it up to 70% of its volume). Squeeze the pulp by hands and mix obtained liquid with the juice.

Add 10.5 oz / 300 grams of sugar, stir it up. Install a water lock for wine or a sterile medical glove with a hole in one of the fingers, seal all of the connections. Leave the container in a dark place with a temperature of 65-77F° / 18-25°C.

After 4 days add remaining sugar (10.5 oz / 300 grams) to the must. For this you’ll have to take off the lock (the glove), pour 0.5 qt / 500 ml of juice, and dissolve sugar in it. Then pour the syrup back into the must and install the air lock.

After 35-45 days the fermentation will stop: the blackberry wine will get brighter, there will be a later of sediment at the bottom, the water lock will stop bubbling (the glove will deflate). It’s time to pour the new wine into another clean container through a narrow tube without touching the sediment at the bottom.

Leave the tightly sealed container in a dark room with a temperature of 50-61F° / 10-16°C for 60-90 days of aging.

Separate the blackberry wine from the sediment once again and bottle it. Then seal the bottles with corks. Store it in a fridge or a basement. Its shelf-life is 1-2 years.