Bramble wine

[ron]

Just picked a small bucket full of ripe brambles.


BLACKBERRY WINE
1 litre water 2 - 1 kg sugar, 3 tsp. yeast, 4.5 litres blackberries (for riper berries use less sugar)

Boil water and pour over berries the mash them. Stand for 4 days the strain and add sugar and yeast. Leave to ferment. Rack and bottle. A cinnamon stick may also be added after fermentation has begun. Age for 6 - 12 months.

Got this from tinternet, has anybody tried it?
I've boiled and bashed them, standing in big pan now.

[fatbloke]

Just picked a small bucket full of ripe brambles.


BLACKBERRY WINE
1 litre water 2 - 1 kg sugar, 3 tsp. yeast, 4.5 litres blackberries (for riper berries use less sugar)

Boil water and pour over berries the mash them. Stand for 4 days the strain and add sugar and yeast. Leave to ferment. Rack and bottle. A cinnamon stick may also be added after fermentation has begun. Age for 6 - 12 months.

Got this from tinternet, has anybody tried it?
I've boiled and bashed them, standing in big pan now.

Very basic recipe there. What kind of yeast ? What starting gravity ? Volume of fruit rather than weight ? etc etc.

What about straining out the pips/pulp ? What about sorbate/sulphite additions during racking ? etc etc.....

Sorry, but there's better, more detailed and informative recipes out there....

regards

fatbloke

[Spud395]

Why not help the man out and suggest a recipe or at least point him in the right direction!

[second2none]

http://www.ehow.com/how_1613_make-blackberry-wine.html

I was going to do this but think time is slipping past me too fast to go and pick the blackberrys!
When I saw the title "Bramble wine" I thought you'd gone madder than me and actually tried to brew with the thorny vine bit!

Go for it and good luck brewing!

As for an SG... it depends how ripe the berries are you can add more sugar if you really want it to rot your brain
and I was tempted to throw some lemon juicein to it to to give it that sharp edge, but maybe thats just me being a sadist!

[ron]

No second2none, just the usual degree of madness we need to go picking 3 lbs of brambles.
After a few days, I boiled it up, added 1kg sugar and a yeast started in a glass all frothy.
It bubbled away happily, settled down a bit now, gonna put it in a brown dj in a couple of days.

[ron]

Transferred to brown dj today, 1 bubble per 3 secs.
Seems to be doing OK.

[gti1x]

When I saw the title "Bramble wine" I thought you'd gone madder than me and actually tried to brew with the thorny vine bit!

Actually I believe the young tips make a very pleasant wine. I was going to make this this spring, but other commitments got in the way. In fact there are several recipes for foliage wine in CJJ Berry's book, including oak leaf and grape vine prunings.

GTI

[ron]

Up-date, still bubbling happily, about 1 bubble every 5/6 secs.
Got high hopes for this one.