2022 Elderberry in Detail
Last updated 07/18/2023 I decided to document this wine in detail as it’s a non-typical, home-developed recipe. This recipe has 2 differences: It’s a fruit concentrate that has been extended with grape concentrate. The...
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2022 Elderberry
March 2022 This wine has been planned since last summer, but I’m just getting around to making it. I have a 25 liter (6.6 US gallon) demijon free, so the plan is to make...
2018 Elderberry Batch #2
August 2018 This batch is the first time I’m trying an experiment I’ve been considering for 30 years — feeding a wine sugar to jack the alcohol up to ~18% and sweetening it, to...
2018 Elderberry Batch #1
August 2018 This concentrate was a spur-of-the-moment purchase — I was thinking about elderberry and then I spotted the package in American Brewmaster. I didn’t even read the ingredients until I reached home. I...
1987 Elderberry
September 2006 – We had elderberry bushes growing along the river by our main field. My brother helped me pick the elderberries and strip them off the branches. It was a lot of things...
1986 Elderberry
October 2018 – I’m guessing that after making wine from dried elderberries, I got the idea that fresh had to be better. My brother and I picked the elderberries and it was a serious...
1984 Dried Elderberry
June 2021 – In January 1984 my mom spotted an advertisement for The Winery, a wine & beer supply store in Rome NY. I drove to Rome to check it out, and learned an...