percival
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hey there brewing nuts
i just bottled my blackberry wine and as is the privilege of the brewer i drank a bottle from the demijohn.
My goodness, what a wonderful surprise. its a medium dry red wine that tastes wonderful. if it was £4-5 per bottle i would keep buying it. The dryness is something like an aussie shiraz. if you disagree with my rating of aussie shiraz dryness then you can calibrate according to your expertise from my description. The colour is between a rose and a red, i/e/ not deep red. i only had a dark glass demijohn from conditioning stage onwards, prior to that it was in clear glass and only sometimes was it wrapped in a teatowel to exclude light. It's crystal clear tho. Started in august. i'm exceptionally pleased with the result and encourage anyone who wants to brew a dryish red wine to give this a go. My basic recipe came from berry's book of course. The blackberries were almost certainly organic and huge and sweet due to pruning. They also ripened early, probably due to pruning and also being in sunlight for most of the day due to being high up in a tree. They tasted sweeter and fruitier than is the norm for wild bramble fruits.
Regardless of the details i will be foraging as many black berries as possible next year (autumn time ish) for a big brew of a few gallons based on this result.
if you like you wines red and dryish then this is a country wine marvel that will compete with grape wines priced at a few pounds per bottle. The cost to brewers of course is time and effort.
if you are interested than gimme a shout here and i'll post more details about the recipe. next year i'll be taking gravity readings, but as far as falling over potential is concerned i reckon this is about 11-14% ABV. Flavour would be hard to improve on, colour could be deeper red, clarity hard to improve on. ABV could be better controlled.
i just bottled my blackberry wine and as is the privilege of the brewer i drank a bottle from the demijohn.
My goodness, what a wonderful surprise. its a medium dry red wine that tastes wonderful. if it was £4-5 per bottle i would keep buying it. The dryness is something like an aussie shiraz. if you disagree with my rating of aussie shiraz dryness then you can calibrate according to your expertise from my description. The colour is between a rose and a red, i/e/ not deep red. i only had a dark glass demijohn from conditioning stage onwards, prior to that it was in clear glass and only sometimes was it wrapped in a teatowel to exclude light. It's crystal clear tho. Started in august. i'm exceptionally pleased with the result and encourage anyone who wants to brew a dryish red wine to give this a go. My basic recipe came from berry's book of course. The blackberries were almost certainly organic and huge and sweet due to pruning. They also ripened early, probably due to pruning and also being in sunlight for most of the day due to being high up in a tree. They tasted sweeter and fruitier than is the norm for wild bramble fruits.
Regardless of the details i will be foraging as many black berries as possible next year (autumn time ish) for a big brew of a few gallons based on this result.
if you like you wines red and dryish then this is a country wine marvel that will compete with grape wines priced at a few pounds per bottle. The cost to brewers of course is time and effort.
if you are interested than gimme a shout here and i'll post more details about the recipe. next year i'll be taking gravity readings, but as far as falling over potential is concerned i reckon this is about 11-14% ABV. Flavour would be hard to improve on, colour could be deeper red, clarity hard to improve on. ABV could be better controlled.
